Death Of The Lambs!

There is no point asking why is this happening to us? When will all this stop? Why? Because …. Very very honestly we all are simply used to it by now. Is it not? After every terror attack on our city next day we all head to our tasks mechanically, like whatever happened was a nightmare. We intend to avoid the truth. We don’t even celebrate being lucky or fortunate for long because in our mind a fear says there is always a tomorrow which is waiting for … may be us. But then we all wake up – and assume that we will come out unscratched and whatever happens will not happen to me.

We do get shaken, we do get disturbed, we do feel sad but it stays like an alcohole effect which eventually vapourises and terror becomes history in the course of time. We complain to each other saying no body bothers – but why do we forget that we are one of these ‘nobody’s.

May be we are like this because we are nobody. Possible… because we don’t have x,y,z grade security, we do not have followers, we don’t have the capacity to create vaccum in the global, social, political or even local space. One of us dies, government if kind enough announces some monetory help, a list of all these names appear on television and fades away.

Why don’t we ask ourselves one question? Do we deserve this? Do our parents or our kids deserve this? Why somebody or a group of people can change your life the way they want or rather destroy it completely?

We all are very angry now, but unfprtunately all will calm down and we will head towards life and another disaster may be.

What can we do? Of course if a couple of maniacs are shooting randomly on streets there isn’t much we could do. But I suggest a few things we can do is –

1. while travelling by public transport (specially local trains) let us try and keep minimalistic baggage with us. Also avoid keeping it on racks. I understand a lot of people have to carry laptops and briefcases to work but what I have seen is – it is very easy to pass your baggage to somebody to keep it up on the racks and then to get lost in the crowds. And this is the same pattern used in all the blasts. We can certainly avoid a timed bomb attack if we be a little careful.
2. We have to have contact details of the prime government security agencies like Mumbai Police, Railway Police, Fire Brigade etc. All the major city hospitals and news channels.
3. Not to spread unconfirmed news. After any terror attacks, for next few days some rumours are spread systematically by same people who would be behind the attacks. Unfortunately our Indian TV media behaves foolishly behind TRPs and often end up giving exxagrated news.
4. Be an alert citizen. Lot of times we just let things go and do not bother about confronting any anti social activity.
5. We should have mock drills performed by a group of residents in presence of government security agencies.
6. Crowd gathering at any rescue operation, becomes a big obstacle. So people should understand that it is not any entertainment show but a dangerous event.


Lastly, we all have to understand that any city in this world is not safe from terrorism and cowardly attacks. We have to forget being fearless on the streets we grew up, fearless while commuting, fearless while being out with family, because Terrorism is here to stay.