Hope

There is sense of despair in India over terrorist attacks. Pakistan was involved. But we too are weak. We have horrible bureaucracy and ill equipped police.

But I have hope. As we liberalized our economy when we reached at the brink of bankruptcy in 1992 and as now at least we have started to build larger airports after facing so much problem, same way we would rise above this too. We don't do anything until we are forced to. Now we are forced to improve our security and I know that we will do it . Same way when we reach tipping point for our traffic, power problems etc we will fix those issues too.

International reaction to Mumbai attacks

Saw one of the headlines in nytimes.com about Mumbai terrorist attacks. It reads something like this 'Attacks on Mumbai creates a challenge for Obama about bringing India and Pak together'. See the irony ? If you cant..then consider after 9/11 we Indians never suggested or thought about bringing Taliban and US together. Another irony, in these moments of crisis that country (and many other countries) is thinking about their self-interests.Nothing wrong with that, just that I wish Congress govt. thinks about 1/10th of like this.

Mumbai Terror Attack

Yesterday (26-Nov-2008) night terrorists struck at Financial capital of India, Mumbai. They attacked 3 five star hotels and very busy and crowded railway station. So far more than 100 people have been killed. Intelligence agencies  traced calls made from their satellite phones to Karachi, Pakistan. These bloody islamic terrorists don't want peace at all in this world. Their pakistani sponsors are the devils who spread the venom of terrorism not only in India  but around the world.

 

We, Indians, have to remember that we are all alone in this fight against terrorism. No country is our friend in this struggle of ours. Whatever needs to be done have to be done by us. Whether its changing the govt. by democratic means or carry on with our lives. We only have to defeat this disease. Already Australia and UK cricket teams have cancelled their visits to India for Champions trophy, and that's exactly what terrorists wanted and they achieved it. 

 

 I have been reading blogs by foreigners when we successfully launched Chandrayaan to moon, signed a nuclear deal with US and NSG etc. Most of the foreigners see only casteism, women exploitation, dowry problem as and when anyone mentions India. Their thought and perspective is very limited and narrow. They are not able to yet comprehend the new India. I am sure right now also many of the westerners would be writing about same things on net in response to the 

 terrorist attacks. While we cant and in fact don't want to bother about them, but it makes us realize that we are absolutely alone. Let there be not a single iota of doubt about that. Power is worshipped and weakness and vulnerability is looked down upon in this world. So we have to be powerful ..economically..militarally in addition to culturally which we already are.

 

A country is strong because its people are strong and hence the govt they choose is strong. A non-governing, weak. short sighted, vote-bank concerning government who is indifferent towards the safety of its citizens is a disaster for our country. Unfortunately,we have such govt in power in India right now.

 

We have to be very strong towards terrorism. A strong law like POTA will encourage Police and intelligence.Terror will strike us again (As has been happening since beginning of the year in Jaipur, Bangalore, Delhi,Gowhati etc etc) if we remain weak and lazy in our response towards terrorism this time too.