7/11 - Where is the end?

And we lose our breaths and blood, while arguing with fervor on Outsourcing and Reservations......
India was under siege on our own 7/11 as Mumbai saw one of the most inhuman and barbaric acts of current times.

Quoting Professor V. G. Gaikar, UICT, Mumbai:

"As the heavy rains poured over the city, it was leaving crimson trail behind. Innocent lives, full of youthful ambitions, were victims of dastardly act that psychos unleashed yesterday on Mumbai"

250 dead and 700+ injured, conservative however the numbers are, still an iota for an impending Billion population. Mumbaikars (Mumbaiites) were back on track the very next morning, squeezing and rushing to catch the local trains right from the wee hours. Either Indians have become extremely resilient to terrorism (read brutal bullying) or too indifferent to miseries not affecting them directly. Or could it be the helplessness shredded with tolerant culture, perhaps could be the "I can't do nothing about it attitude".

History has shown and repeatedly that to make a difference masses are not needed, it takes just One man (human being to be politically correct, I am not a genderist :-) to create History. Be it Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Bill Gates or Mother Teresa, situations can be favorably altered, freedom can be attained or billion lives can be touched upon.

For the affected families, where a Mom has lost her young son, husband is holding his wife clothed in blood or a little sister who is painfully weeping and cursing "why I asked my brother to meet me at Borivilli station", buried under wrongful guilt of her brother's death, things would never be the same. Lives that were ready to enjoy the sunshine, dream an IT career and travel world or humbly enough just reach home for the wonderful home-cooked meal and meet the loved ones are perished forever or hospitalized. Angel of death while still waiting for others, wounds would just get more salt rubbed.

My deepest sympathies to everyone hurt by this heinous act. As we saw and some of them even witnessed 9/11 that augmented awareness in Western countries, may this awake and arise Indians. Condolences and tears are no match to the suffering that victims and their families are going through, but I sincerely wish this harbinger the much needed awakening. Rather than getting this torture and injustice oblivion in sands of time, we must show the world, India could not be terrorized by the whims of the ill fully brain-washed.

-Pankya