Sunday, November 30, 2008

Now or Never

24 hours after the terror attack on Mumbai, while the people of this country have not yet fathomed the loss they have suffered, its really shameful to see that politicians have started playing the blame game. There is always time for politics and this is certainly not the time. These are tough times for everyone and we as a nation need to provide a united front and take actions to make sure that the people of this country never fall victim to such acts of evil. The common man already has many challenges and difficulties he needs to face and worrying about the safety of his loved ones is one thing he could do without. The people of this country want and deserve to walk its motherland without fear.

In the past 12 months the country has been a victim to more than 6 terror attacks. The questions everyone wants to ask the leaders of this nations are - Why have we been a victim of so many attacks? Why has nothing been done after the first few attacks, and many more? I know its too late to raise these questions and no matter what the answer is the present is not going to change but the answers are required so that we can move ahead with resolution. This is the time to investigate and learn from what has passed, make the right conclusions and implement the right system so that incidents like these never happen in the future and even if they do we are better equipped to tackle them quickly. I fear if we do not act now India is heading towards a certain doom.

2 comments:

  1. It's true, the country of having multi features of all human beliefs has to go through the menace of this. We may not want to blame only certain factions, it can be a failure of many. I also believe, the amount of Media coverage and the way things are been portrayed needs to be controlled. Bottom of all we need effective weapons at the Entry levels of protection includes Police force and educated more agile to real world economy politicians ( may be a challenge on a 5 year term, yes it should be Performance indicated based). NSG and other specialized forces should train the local forces and should participate together with local authorities. My worry is the Future. not the current. The young lads are already made both the sides as HERO's (Good and Bad).

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  2. Hari,
    Thanks for the comment. I second the thought "the amount of Media coverage and the way things are been portrayed needs to be controlled"
    I plan on writing a separate article on that.

    It was a shame to see police personal equipped with standard rifles while the enemy had sophisticated AK-xx's and M-16's.

    "NSG and other specialized forces should train the local forces and should participate together with local authorities." - Good idea to improve the response time and help react but that is the second phase of the problem.

    For the future of this country we need to look at what needs to be done to prevent such horrendous acts in the first place. South Korea with a coastline 4 times smaller than ours has 3 times the naval power that we have(I felt ashamed when I read this fact).

    I heard a statement from someone in the intelligence bureau on NDTV 24x7 yesterday saying that they had informed the local police authority of a possible threat and the local authority didn't do anything. How is that even an acceptable excuse. This further goes to show how flawed our system is.

    We say we are on the route to become a super power (a G-7/G-8, whatever) but I'm afraid that is far from reality.

    And to make things worse there was a bomb blast in Assam today :(.

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