Have we forgotten Mumbai??

We have come close to one year of that gruesome terrorist attack that went on for 3 days. What happened in Mumbai in November end was unthinkable horror. People who were sleeping at home, people who were stretching on the pavements to relax after a hard day's work n people who were partying in the supposed to be safe and warm environs of five star hotels were riddled with bullets and blown to bits by grenades. Patients and their relatives lodged in a hospital were shot dead and innocent passengers waiting at the city's main railway station were hunted down. The horror of that night was beyond imagination.

I know that it’s already an old story and most people have spoken about it, argued and yawned about it. People have moved on and the extraordinary rage that was witnessed has subsided into the routine calm and carelessness of the great Indian populace. We cried for blood, talked about revenge and blah blah however, now most people won't even bother talking about it because it has been added to another of the dust wrapped incidents of terrorist attacks witnessed by us. However, for a person like me things have really changed. One can no longer feel safe anywhere. You don't know when from which corner a terrorist will jump out and blow you to bits or may kill your dear ones in front of you even when you believed that you are at a place far off from terrorism. Till this incident happened, I used to think that such incidents are fortunately not possible in our cities. When I read about the blowing up of Mariott hotel in Islamabad or read about the routine car and suicide bombings going on in Afghanistan and Iraq, I used to believe that it happened there because those are areas ruled by militants and though militancy is prevalent in India but still that kind of incidents were unimaginable. Now everything is scary because the unimaginable happened right in front of our eyes.

I am still scared, wounded and upset about this and I want things to be done in such a manner that the perpetrators of that night are destroyed and repetition of such acts is not possible. Time has lapsed but my frustration has only increased by seeing nothing concrete happening and mere press releases going on from all sides. Is that all we wanted, are we satisfied or should I say we are waiting for the next live coverage of terrorist attacks which will earn billions for news channels by providing them viewership for the breaking news.

Tell me friends, is my confusion justified or should I also shrug my head, get up and stop talking about it till the location and date changes or should we expect a better deal this time so that we can plan the future by having an assurance that a stray bullet or grenade is not going to hit us anytime. Is it a crime to talk about taking steps which ensure that we don't fear terrorist around the corner when we walk into the street.

I came up witht this write up as I personally felt that my previous post for the series did not have conclusive ending. So this is the final part of War on Mumbai series. It really took me long to complete the series and even more long was the process which I went through in getting all the right content for your reading.

Hope you guys liked my articles and I am waiting for your feedback on the same. Your feedback would help me analyze my own writing and I would make sure I don't repeat same mistakes in my future blogs.

Thank you for being there!!!