Blog for a Numb Mumbai

Yesterday the city rocked literally again .. with a series of blasts creating chaos and havoc in the city. With a surge of the relief operations and local people coming up with huge help keeping in tune with the kind of reputation it has built over recent times..to bounce back against the calamity whatsoever. The spirit is truly worth appreciation. But man is an intelligent animal as is said and intelligence is proven by learning from mistakes. For once the city was rocked shaken by the series of blasts in the 90’s and then again with singular incidents of blasts in between years. The Court cases of the first incidents is still ongoing at different hierarchies of courts still with no positive appreciated result and outcome. The scenario as can be seen by recent blasts is enough to conclude that there has been absolutely No Change in the state of affairs over all these years. The sluggish dormant government is still very much the same as the anguish in the mind of the terrorist elements which is quite surprising. There has been no exchange of views, no concrete forward policies and finally no plausible solution to the acts of terrorism.
On the contrary as compared to the terrorist attacks of Sept 11th the we saw some reaction of the government (whether right or wrong) as to destroying the Laden supported Taliban rule in Afghanistan. It’s a simple cause and effect rule which governs the actions of all. One gauges the action by the effect.. Lower the effect.. the more control u have on action.. the more the effect u need to think more for your action. But more importantly there has to be a Reaction against any action which is missing in todays government, center and state alike.
Similar was the case with the outbreak of riots in Mumbai. One would be surprised to know that from that day onwards Mumbai has been very quiet as considering the public participation in such acts. Over a decade now there has not been recorded any such public large scale outbreak violence even as it was tested now and again some singular such incidents. What had been the action taken at the time of riots that has been so effective? the formation of social groups within each community locality to work in sync with the police had played a major role in curbing the riots in Mumbai. These social groups were the chief peace keepers to tackle/curb the extreme emotions and the rumors and cooling down the violent ideologies floating around.
Similar is the case with incidents of blasts occurring. We need to understand that some group is restless and not mentally oriented that wants to get answers to its beliefs and ideologies which have to be answered. By Not reacting to the questions we tend to frustrate them more and more. There are three ways to tell a child what’s wrong and what’s not to be done… first is by explaining how its wrong, seconds by showing the advantages of not doing it.. by your own actions, examples, living, etc. and third is prohibiting him not doing by force. Any of the three ways is to be adopted to counteract such heinous crimes done. Not reacting to an action is more dangerous than reacting wrongly. I hope this doesnt go unattended. If killing of 200odd persons doesnt prompt for an action nothing can.