Sunday, July 27, 2008

Forced into coming back!!

Not that I had gone away anywhere, but somehow I wasn't getting the urge to write anything since a long time now. A lot of things have happened since I last posted. I had taken a long overdue break, and went to visit a childhood friend in Pune. But it took the recent bomb blast's that has rocked two cities, to get me back to posting once again.
I was stunned to hear the news of serial blast's in Bangalore- here I would not say Bengalaru, as I am not a great fan of renaming cities just to show that we don't want any colonial hangovers- in the evening. It's one of the big cities of the country, and home to the cream of software industry . I called up one of my friend who is working there to ask about the situation. But much worse was in store, as the next day would show. Next day the terrorists struck Ahmedabad, and the devastation wrecked was much more than the last day. 17 serial blasts, and more than 45 persons dead till now!!
Today news has been coming through of live bombs as well as bomb making materials being found in Surat, another city of Gujrat.
Lot of sad stories will come out of these blast's but one that was on the news comes to mind. A doctor who had come with his pregnant wife for her check up, to the hospital he used to work in, died as soon as he got out of the hospital. The terrorists had planted bombs even in front of hospitals!! It felt so sad to hear this news.
In India it seems that terrorists can hit at will- there has been a spate of such attacks during the last few years. I just hope that India can give a strong response to such terrorists. But just hoping wont take us anywhere, there has to be political will. We very badly need an agency on the lines of FBI, with proper powers vested with them. The politicians should stop blaming each other and for a change get together to send a strong message to the terrorists.