For what it's worth.....

Sunday 26 August 2007
Yesterday at around 7.30 PM in a moist rainy evening, we ( Imroj, I, Yaddu and chandan) ventured out of our room to grab a sort of evening snacks and chai.........we walked hardly a couple of furlongs and imroj got a call from her sister......we, presuming that to be a routine call, walked ahead leaving him past us......he retarded his steps so as to focus on her sister's speech.... I sensed some abnormality.....as I turned about and began observing his expresssions...it became evident that she talked in a very loud pitch nearly squealing on the microphone of her cell...."Bhaiyya.......where are you? Rush to your flat....city has been attacked by two series bomb blasts......and 3 deaths have been reported..so far"......"How come? when? how do you know?".....asked imroj....completely dumbstruck by the abrupt startling news......"we just saw in television.....there's an absolute chaos around the roads and affected areas......you rush home immediately".....she spoke in all restlessness....as if bombs had been hunting to take us down next, had we not gone to home....Having known the purpose of her call Imroj rushed to us......we where hardly 70 feet away....he upchucked whatever he understood from sister reacting nearly double than his sister did......I was shocked.......and took sometime to realize that incident ahd indeed happened......we rushed to room in no time......and inquired immediately in the news sites......Yes...it was!......"Twin cities faced series bomb blast........3 deaths and 10 injured...."......the initial report said on TOI......the news was so fresh that some eminent news sites, AAj Tak, NDTV etc didn't even have intimation on the happening as their websites kept on Displaying "Bad Boy salman arrested in Jodhpur for chinkara case..." as the head lines (like we care....).....we stayed glued to TOI and read every available piece of information on the site........death toll kept increasing after every timed refresh of 15 minutes.....3 to 10.......10 to 20.......20 to 30.......and counting.......That's so very unfortunate.....


News said that police suspects this is an act of "islamic terrorists"........but as corrected by yaddu (read Ajay Sing Yaduwanshi).......terrorists don't have a religious suffix - prefix as such in their name........terrorists are just "terrorists".......they aren't confined to any religion......

Don't know what's the math behind this remorseless execution...nor intended to stretch it here as that's already being done beyond the fatigue on news papers.....but the only thing that bothers us all is...whether or not we are going to have a sustained communal peace across the nation......peace is not desirous of eradication of terrorists.....even if you tend to wipe them....no matter how timely.....they'll continue to mushroom and proliferate and will continue to abuse the harmony of mankind....

it depends on how we perceive things.........owing to such events if we get carried away on communal grounds, indulging ourselves in counterattacks.......then, I must say, we are doing nothing but just adding to their success.......

Terrorists don't have any religion in particular......neither they befit in any society or category.....they have just one name..."Terrorists".........their is no point in taking this or any attack as a communal issue.........

As a one amongst the crowd....I can only say......lets not get agitated.......lets be united.....lets be brave......lets defeat their wholesome purpose of "divide and rule".........

1 comments:

  • shyam

    Opesh babu, the blog is such a good one and I felt as if I was woth with u when the sequence were happening......Yes i agree we need to stand together in this fight againg the terrorism with unity and make sure we are not divided. Also it is the responsibilty of the religion heads to maintian the communal harmony and the also on the people not to spread rumours which create more panic among the people.