Days of torrential rain in Mumbai post-13/7 may have done well to wash-out the blood stains on the blast-stricken walls.But whether days of a desperate sun could evaporate the brimming tears in the eyes? And whether the prevailing winds could blow away the shock,fear and wrath of the Mumbaikars? Sounds pretty optimistic but the way tragedy returns as frequently as festivals do in Mumbai and provided the hopeless government that we have, perhaps it's time to to turn to 'natural phenomenons' to drive off doom days.
Sadly,Mumbai has not been new to the aftermath of such bloody assaults. Time and again it finds itself to be a 'dead meat' of a bunch of brainless souls who thrive on unreasonable destruction. While we house ourselves in the safety of our rooms,watch the bodies of the dead and injured on television and in course of expressing our natural-humane-pity, spew off words praising the 'resilience' and applauding the 'spirit', one can only imagine the fear that would have clinged on to the people that sorrowful night. They would have tiptoed back to their houses with shuddered hearts consoling their dear ones showing mock firmness,chanting nervous prayers and suspecting a bomb everywhere-in trains,vehicles,dustbins,tiffin-boxes.Who knew when and where the bomb n0.4 or no.5 would explode! The whole phenomenon of these ghast 'serial blasts' implies that the merciless maniacs do not leave any stone unturned while inficting their brutal blows.
Are we not sick of these fragile government policies to tackle terrorism? Only after a massacre such as this, the security gets beefed up that too in name of which a few pot-bellied policemen with questionable agility carrying an obsolete,rusty one-shot gun get added-up(the metal detectors confine to airports and the bomb detectors come into picture only after a blast),the on-going peace-process goes to a 'temporary' halt, fake promises ,hollow threats and lame excuses gallore from the part of some white-collared'street dogs' who have always barked but never bitten. There has been a growing outrage on the failure of intelligence. I wonder whether our intelligence is potent enough.Has there been an ocassion when the 'intelligence' has worked intelligently enough to prevent a plotted bomb-blast? Have those bomb-detectors ever acted on suspicion and detected a bomb without being exploded? However,this time, the verbosity of the corrupt leaders of an inept government has been staggering.Words that could make you grin,smirk and sulk.Words that reflected India's tame surrender against terrorism and its pityless ignorance. Few have even paded their own backs by calling this a first major blast in Mumbai after 26/11,as if there's a gap of some 10 years in between or as if the government expect such blasts once in every 6 months.
Time is fading and the frothy layer of rage and mild-agitation is fast meting as it has always done. The vivid images of that terrifying night will soon go blurred, Mumbai will return to its feet and yet another day would get added to the 'black-list' for candles to be burnt and silence to be observed once in every year. What more have we done all these years? Had the government been pro-active,that 'Kasab' would not have been enjoying the pleasant food and shelter of ever so hospitable Indian jails.And before I express my anger further,the breaking news flashed at my television screen breaks me apart-The Death toll in Mumbai Blasts reaches to 19 as one more victim succumbs to his injuries.Trembling voices of reporters,mournful silence and unconsolable wails return to carry me away as I pen down with moist eyes.
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