Take your pick

Today it was Ahmadabad.

Yesterday it was Banglore and some months back it was Jaipur

OK so we just live with this..,like forever, no?

This is what a top ranking police officer had to say - "Why do you ask us to comment whenever blasts occur? We, the policemen of India, are not at all getting any support from the system nor do we get support from the Indian media. People forget that terrorism is a battle that can be fought only with the help of the police. In the last five years the Indian police is fighting a lonely battle."

Well said Sir. We make heroes out of terrorists. Afzhal Guru for example. These cowards are becoming heroes thanks to people like Mahesh Bhatt, who make movies depicting an imaginative "victimization" of a particular community and then glorifying there so called rebellion against the system So appealing isn't it?.

We have tied the hands of the police force; because well, Police Force is all bad. Villains, right? Their only job is to harass oh-so-innocent guys of a particular community, right?

Tough situations require tough response from the system. We have not scaled our system well over the years. We copy pasted and created Laws that were a legacy of the British. And over last 60 years we have not really bothered to upgrade those laws to handle new kinds of lawlessness.

The current government under whose 4 years (mis)rule we have seen the most number of attacks has been singularly lackluster and has made no efforts to take up this issue head on. They have even clipped Modi's hands by not allowing Gujarat governments tough laws to come into force by refusing to sign it. Patil tai is sitting on those papers for like ever.

Israel is a democracy like ours. They have liberals and conservatives. They have very strong religious groups operating withing the country. They have the most acrimonious debates and very huge differences amongst themselves. But when it comes to national security, they don't take chances. They are surrounded from all sides by hostile nations. Their west bank is every volatile. But they have now figured out a way to deal with this deadly and daily menace. They have by no stretch of imagination perfected the system. Yet they are effectively dealing with it.

We need to learn from Israel. It's important that India deal with this problem head on, instead of giving lofty lectures of peace to the world and sweeping it under the carpet, thinking it will take care of itself one day.

These cowards are already planning their next attack. What city,street or Mohalla, no one knows.

Sorry Jaipur

Jaipur - I am sorry. I am sorry that you lost 70 of your innocent citizens. But i am more sorry because I belong to Nation who would soon forget you and your lost lives and go on to live a routine life. A Nation that would like to believe, as long as it does not happen to "us" it's ok. I am more sorry because before the end of this week, those 70 lives will be numbers and statistics to be kept for future reference.

Jaipur - you are part of "India" but may be you are too far. Too far from our "mainstream" thought which is more worried about the security of our "stars", our "heroes", our cricketers. Don't get me wrong. We will provide the necessary lip service . We will say we "condemn" the attack. Our beloved Prime Minister although may not have sleepless nights for you as you are not an Indian Muslim "wrongly" held by the (evil) western governments. For our PM those 70 were just faceless individuals and he thinks he is too busy wasting sleep over those people. But again don't get me wrong, he will *loudly* and *clearly* condemn the attack. He may even ROAR for all you know. He will, with his pigeon chest puffed all of 25 inches and say WE WON'T TOLERATE this. So watch out for his unequivocal condemnation.

Jaipur - Currently we are busy with IPL and cricket. And you can understand.You are leading the table of points and have beaten even SRK's team, you should know how the cricket craze has engulfed all of us. May be that is why you were chosen as a site for carrying out these blasts. To send out a message to all Indians, don't WIN.

Jaipur - please don't get me wrong again. We are going to be lectured on communal harmony and secularism by our esteemed elite. We would also be told how the "spirit" of India recovers from such attacks, pretty soon. Infact before you read this, the spirit would have already recovered and would be healthy to face another blast at another city. So you already know the drill, don't ya? If not, ask Varanasi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Coimbatore....

Jaipur - one bad news though. Even if somehow our central and state agencies are able to nab the culprits, say 2 years from now after intense search and investigation, you would have to wait for justice to be done. It is very likely that the justice won't be done at all. You know, we have a "human rights" industry in place here. There are some journalist and columnist who like to burn candles. May be they have a tie up with Dimple Kapadia who has a designer candles showroom. But anyways, so look out for those jack asses, oops, sorry elite jholawals. They would like lighting candles at India Gate to oppose the conviction of a terrorist. After all a terrorist is a human, no? So basically you will have to live with this idea that the people who killed 70 innocent others will be our governments guest as some journalists won't like it if they are hanged, although the terrorist has made chest-thumping declaration of killing 100s of Indians

And Jaipur - if you thought SRK's jumping like a kid over Shoibh Akhtar, India's latest star's, chest was inappropriate given the sad situation don't get him wrong too. SRK is pretty animated and i think he is smoking pot. He forgot that there existed a city called Jaipur. For him Knight Riders is all that is to India now. So sorry for his pretty graphic and animated "gay" show in front of the ever willing Kolkatta crowd. Sorry that this was happening, even when you were lifting debris over your dead bodies. I understand that, if it was another nation, the match would have stopped half way and at least a symbolic mourning of 2 minutes would have been done to show solidarity with you. But wait, Kolkatta is your rival now, so may be not. Apparently SRK was going to have a big party post match. Just a few hours after this tragedy. So in case you did not know this because you are busy sobbing, remember you heard it hear first (I need to keep the tradition of "Exclusive-Breaking-News" alive, you see)

So Jaipur - so long.

And you thought...

...only USA was so self involved!!

A massive tragedy hits a next door neighbour, and before we blink, Myanmar is off the mainstream headlines (TOI,IBN,NDTV,Rediff.com)

Bangalore Royal Challengers removing its CEO from the post is bigger news than 13,000 deaths.

Tragic