Continuos rain for almost five days in Chennai; Water in streets, railway tracks, airport runways and inside the ground floor of many many houses.. This is the situation in Chennai on 27 & 28 th of Nov 08. Yet every Chennaiite followed closely what happened in Mumbai; This article is the perspective of an ordinary South Indian .
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On 27th Morning, we came to know about the situation in Mumbai. Heritage hotels like Taj and Trident was captured by terrorists. There was a bomb blast in a car and firing at the famous Chatrapathi sivaji railway station on the previous night….TV channels like NDTV, CNN, Times Now had a fields day; people across the country were gloomed to the TV sets. TV was showing live pictures of situation outside Taj, Trident and Nariman house.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil as usual spoke the same words, " We will take strict action against the people behind this..". Prime Minister spoke in TV and asked people to be calm.
As a citizen, I wanted to ask the following questions to the PM & his government:
Every time there is mention that some agency (like Intelligence or others) has reported in advance about the blast!! Why cant the government take preventive measures? Even in the current Mumbai massacre, fisherman is said to have written a letter to the government about some illegal activities in the Mumbai coast! What the Government has done?
In the last 6 months, blasts have happened in Jaipur (May); Bangalore (July), Ahmedabad, Delhi and I am sorry I lost the count.
How many people have been arrested so far in connection with all these blasts? Has the government collected any kind of information from them about their "Team & their leader"?
Home Minister (Now resigned) Shivraj Patil changed his suits three times for coming to media in an earlier blast; while people were dying, he wanted to project himself in different costumes !! When this was pointed to him by a reporter, he angrily said, " I always want to be clean ". He continued to be the Home Minister till several other blasts and spoke the same thing for every blast!!
After about 10 blasts in various cities, the present Home Minister has resigned!
The Mumbai terror hurts many- more than other blasts because the earlier blasts happened in small markets, cinema halls where poor and middle class people come and died; in this terror, the rich people are affected and your government immediately show some action; Please remember even the poor and middle class people have families and their families are equally affected by their loss.
Honestly an Ordinary Indian citizen living in an urban city like me is very nervous and insecure; we are afraid anything can happen at any time.
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I am really not sure what would have happened had some other political party be in power? It could have been the same situation !! That is why I personally hate Politics and Political leaders!!
The only saving grace in the whole episode is the brave action of NSG people and that of the hotel employees who sincerely tried to save all the people inside.
Normally I am a very positive person and would like to look at positive aspects of life, but the situation is very grim and I am sorry if this article sounds very negative.
My salutations to the brave soldiers and officers who died in saving their countrymen!!
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On 27th Morning, we came to know about the situation in Mumbai. Heritage hotels like Taj and Trident was captured by terrorists. There was a bomb blast in a car and firing at the famous Chatrapathi sivaji railway station on the previous night….TV channels like NDTV, CNN, Times Now had a fields day; people across the country were gloomed to the TV sets. TV was showing live pictures of situation outside Taj, Trident and Nariman house.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil as usual spoke the same words, " We will take strict action against the people behind this..". Prime Minister spoke in TV and asked people to be calm.
As a citizen, I wanted to ask the following questions to the PM & his government:
Every time there is mention that some agency (like Intelligence or others) has reported in advance about the blast!! Why cant the government take preventive measures? Even in the current Mumbai massacre, fisherman is said to have written a letter to the government about some illegal activities in the Mumbai coast! What the Government has done?
In the last 6 months, blasts have happened in Jaipur (May); Bangalore (July), Ahmedabad, Delhi and I am sorry I lost the count.
How many people have been arrested so far in connection with all these blasts? Has the government collected any kind of information from them about their "Team & their leader"?
Home Minister (Now resigned) Shivraj Patil changed his suits three times for coming to media in an earlier blast; while people were dying, he wanted to project himself in different costumes !! When this was pointed to him by a reporter, he angrily said, " I always want to be clean ". He continued to be the Home Minister till several other blasts and spoke the same thing for every blast!!
After about 10 blasts in various cities, the present Home Minister has resigned!
The Mumbai terror hurts many- more than other blasts because the earlier blasts happened in small markets, cinema halls where poor and middle class people come and died; in this terror, the rich people are affected and your government immediately show some action; Please remember even the poor and middle class people have families and their families are equally affected by their loss.
Honestly an Ordinary Indian citizen living in an urban city like me is very nervous and insecure; we are afraid anything can happen at any time.
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I am really not sure what would have happened had some other political party be in power? It could have been the same situation !! That is why I personally hate Politics and Political leaders!!
The only saving grace in the whole episode is the brave action of NSG people and that of the hotel employees who sincerely tried to save all the people inside.
Normally I am a very positive person and would like to look at positive aspects of life, but the situation is very grim and I am sorry if this article sounds very negative.
My salutations to the brave soldiers and officers who died in saving their countrymen!!
