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Time to show your resilience and spirit again, Mumbai
After the blasts on 11 July 2006 in Mumbai, I wrote
Mumbai, please stop getting on with life. Cry! Become angry! Riot! Do something to let those in power know that they can't go off to sleep and let another terrorist attack happen, knowing well that the Mumbaikar's resilience and spirit will ensure that they don't get blamed in the end.It isn't fair. The terrorists are cheats. It's only been 4 weeks since the last attack, not the 6 weeks that normally transpires. How can they attack again so soon?
How will the government react? This is how their cabinet meeting this morning will go.
- Two minutes silence for the dead
- Shivraj, please answer the following questions
- Any ministers injured or dead? No
- Any MPs injured or dead? No
- Any state CMs or ministers injured or dead? No
- Any MLAs injured or dead? No
- Any former PMs or CMs injured or dead? No
- Any 'important' politicians not belonging to the above list injured or dead? No
- Any film stars or cricketers injured or dead? No
- Any other important media, cultural or sports personalities injured or dead? No
- Right, we move on to the next item on the agenda.
In my opinion, the terrorists will keep getting away with these attacks as long as they target civilians. The moment a politician is affected, that's when the representatives will wake up and take action. We saw that with the Khalistan movement, especially after Indira Gandhi was assassinated. We also saw the stance taken by various parties against the LTTE after it assassinated Rajiv Gandhi.
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Absolutely my sentiments. These morons are never affected. This just shows 2 things, either these guys know well in advance of these incidents and keep safe, or they are the ones behind these incidents. If we get rid of these bunch of jokers, the world would be a better place to live in.
By 
Aarya Srinivas (Nov 27, 2008, 9:10:00 PM)
I am visiting India from the United States and have spent the last 2 weeks here with mixed emotions and confusion. its great to see India prospering specially after watching the economic meltdown in the US. Just today my father was driving me in gurgaon and it never ceases to amaze me that the roads have become worse over the years but prosperity has increased tremendously. My fathers response to it was the whole system is corrupt!
I was completely involved with all the optimism of the last 1 year over which Obama was elected. I don't know what kind of a president he will make but surely I saw the country coming together from the grassroots to get rid of Bush and his policies. Something like this needs to happen in India! It is possible. I was in college when Indira Gandhi was assassinated. I never believed that we would be rid of the Khalistan issue but we did come out of it!
Good point, anonymous, about the Khalistan issue being ended. So there is hope yet!
By Jagadish (Nov 28, 2008, 2:34:00 AM)
Pradeep: I don't think its a case of prior knowledge or being behind the incidents. It's just a state of petrification
By Jagadish (Nov 28, 2008, 9:03:00 AM)
why dont we do anythng whn we surely knw tht its pakistan behind wht ever hppnns in india,n y always india talk abt peace talks with pakistan. by raval
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