It's been over a week since 3 blasts claimed 20 lives and injured more than 100 people. Life crawled back to normalcy within a couple of days. No, we aren't indifferent or apathetic to these gruesome incidents but neither are we scared.
Dying is easy in this city. It could be through a manhole in the monsoons, or by getting hit by a speeding auto rickshaw or bus or truck, while crossing the street. Many people die every year falling off trains. Others die of malaria, dengue and some just because of breathing in the polluted air.
Life in this city is more dangerous than anything the ISI or the Lakshar-E-Tayaba can do. On Sunday, a young movie-goer and her infant died because a tree fell on them in Nariman Point! A TREE!! Who do we blame, the ISI, the LeT, the RSS (Ask Digvijay Singh)?
Dying is easy in this city. It could be through a manhole in the monsoons, or by getting hit by a speeding auto rickshaw or bus or truck, while crossing the street. Many people die every year falling off trains. Others die of malaria, dengue and some just because of breathing in the polluted air.
So! Are we scared of the Lakshar-E-Tayaba or Indian Mujahideen or any other terrorist group? Not one bit!
I totally agree. An absence of terror attacks does not assure us of a long and enriched life or anything of the sort. One might as well fall off a train or get Tetanus from a nail in the classroom. (I will never get over the report of a little girl who died because she scratched her leg on a nail in her desk, and got lockjaw)
ReplyDelete26/11 was really scary though, because I study around there. And even then, it wasn't the possibility of being there when it happened that shook us up as much as the fact that it looked so vulnerable, all of a sudden. Gunmen driving past the college gates, shooting, and people dying - it was disturbing.
26/11 was indeed horrific but I think life seems to have far less value in this city than it should.
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