Comments on: India: Jaipur blasts, Terrorism and the Government

By: Pratibha

Pratibha — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:20:30 +0000

In the ever busy lanes,
life went on its own pace..

A couple sharing an ice creme cone,
a vegetable shop full of house wives,
a grandfather buying a barbie doll,
thinking to gift the child a smile.

Girls walking down the road,
dressed in their best clothes,
guys lost in conversation about
girls,machines and cricket score.

And then time stopped its breath,
too late it was,when it sensed death..

all smiles went into hiding,
leaving deafening wails behind,
the red earth mixed with human flesh,
was mourned over by the smoky skies.

innocent lifes paid with their blood,
for the fruits born on plant of hatred,
how can some one be so cruel to them,
is their soul long lost or dead ?

the wounded city cried silently into the night
but the morning saw it get prepared for a new life..

The wounds will not heal fast,
and tears will wet the face for long,
but the mind has set itself,
to win against all odds.

a battle of good and evil,
a battle of love and hate,
a battle of need and greed,
battle,never to let darkness win again …

By: Prudent Indian

Prudent Indian — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:31:18 +0000

Once again More Bomb Blasts.

Once again another city.

Once again more Humans turned in mere ‘statistics’.

Once again the SAME AS ABOVE.

Once again the Prudent Indian writing the same above.

Once again, then again, then again ….

When will it stop?

Who will stop it?

How long we will be ‘mere spectators’?

How long before you or me or our near and dear ones will not be another victim of this unending spiral of terror?

How many more bomb blasts to take place, before we wake up?

How many more innocent lives to be lost, before we get angry?

Yes, get angry now before you too are ‘NOBODY’ but a mere figure in the ever increasing list of innocent victims. Refuse please, to be sacrificed at the altar of some ‘perverse’ and misplaced ’secularism’.

Very Angry,

PI.

By: Nishant Amrut B.

Nishant Amrut B. — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:28:42 +0000

One more blast. It seems that this chain of bomb blasts is never going to stop. The frequency of these blasts is so alarming that tragedies like these are turned into mere numbers, nothing beyond statistics.
Poor rate of solving blasts cases,slow and at worst unsuccessful convictions, lack of ground intelligence, poor policing are some of the factors adding to the menace of terrorism.And with current political sluggishness(see the reluctance shown by government to hang Afzal Guru) things are not going to improve at all.Thus they will keep bombing our cities, slaughering our fellow countrymen without fear. Brothers, we will have to prepare ourselves for the worst as there will be more blasts.
I dont want to get into the debate of what are the root causes of this scourge. All I want to say is that what we are doing or we have done after every blasts, where are the culprits,are we going to nail them ever,do we have political will and political toughness to deal hard against terrorism(whichever party might be in the power). So long we do not toughen our stand against it, we will keep projecting ourselves soft poewer and as a lame duck.

By: Ravi Kumar

Ravi Kumar — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:05:47 +0000

Mr. Junaid Khan, whosoever he maybe has better knowledge than any of us about the cause of terror that spread in Jaipur. According to him, it has come back on India’s face due to its role in instigating terrorism in tribal areas of Pakistan. But, one cannot justify this when Pakistan Government itself is taking steps on the guidelines given by USA, rather than unnecessarily focusing India for its own acts. Mr. Junaid should review his stand before spreading such anti-Indian messages, because he should be mature enough to understand that no country in the world is so ruthless to proclaim itself as Hindu nation as compared to more that a dozen Muslim countries in world where a Hindu person is not even mentally prepared to go and visit, working there is far beyond. Rather, in India, Muslims always try to have upper hand and show vulgarity in behaviour rather than getting absorbed like Parsis and spread message of unity. There are some exceptions like Maulana Azad and many others, but that doesn’t make sense when the majority are blindly following in name of relegion, without understanding its true essence.

Hence, if Mr. Junaid is really searching for the root cause, then he should have found it by thoroughly reading the paragraph above. May Allah give its followers true vision who are always breaking natural laws and doing acts which even Kuran denies.

All must actively contribute to such open posts, and excercise the freedom of speech in right manner.

By: rajneesh

rajneesh — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:06:46 +0000

India has stopped taking terrorist attack as serious issue.Our home minister is always ready with same excuses every time there is a terrorist attack.
the media always say about spirit of the people as they continue with ther daily life after terrorist strike.

I think people are intelligent enough to know that there is never attack on same city once it has been striked.It is always another city in some other part of country.

hope our govt get smart enough than those terrorist.

By: M Junaid Khan

M Junaid Khan — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:07:44 +0000

A sad thing indeed and lets hope that the government start paying attention to the root causes of terrorism. Indian government must also realize that what it is doing in the Pakistani Tribal areas through its consulates in Afghanistan has dangerous implications for itself and the whole region. Instigating terrorism any where in the world sometimes come back on one face and here we have an example of this in which so many innocent people lost their lives.
Lets hope Indian government start thinking in a different perspective about things and work on eliminating the root causes instead of killing the actors.

By: Ravi Kumar

Ravi Kumar — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:30:21 +0000

In any case terrorism is the worst of all evils present in Indian Society, where we take proud of living unitedly inspite of Diversity. I think that our Saints or the said powerful persons are also helpless to just predict the occurence of such events or to have that exceptional vision of identifying persons behind. Then why take proud of being an advanced country with powerful saints that happened since centuries and are even today (I cannot name the most powerful few or their dignity gets hurt). Is their any true saint really in India with exceptional powers and visions they boast of on the channels and those who predict fortunes. Its really a shame to belong to a Country where powers lie unused or never exist ! No Mullah or any Hindu saint has ever before hand predicted such events or assisted police in identifying. Also, let us see our glorious past (Sone ki chidiya) – having saints like Tukaram and Gnaneshwar… But nobody could do any good to prevent India from becoming slave and ultimately stopping it from bondage – physical as well as mental… On the contrary the society has more hypocrates than being truly relegious and mighty. A handful of politicians, terrorists and their foreign tie-ups are now becoming a challange for a land of very learned people and powerful saints with all sorts of powers (some claim to have gone beyond Earth to see the other worlds) !!!! Is it not shameful to just praise than to prove in such times of Human calamanity… May the true vision come to our country and may we all unite to throw away the handful of such greedy saints and politicians who always keep Indians struggling since ages…