26th November, the day my city was attacked!
It was not the first time someone has ever done so, yet somehow I felt different. Somehow I felt agitated. And long before all these TV channels had this expression I was telling myself Enough is Enough.
The feeling I was getting was, what do these terrorist think, they can just come and attack us anytime they feel like. Like what is the point of having these security personnel standing with those guns, and doiong those security checks during Ganpati Visarjan, during EID them standing outside Masjids.
It all does not make any sense now. They came in by boats, they come and hijack our planes..they go to our bunkers and attack the army..I guess they are yet to attack our Air Forces..That is the only thing left.
Indians were agitated, obviosuly, we cried out, we had peace marches, we lit candles, we protested, we called for bandhs, we had debates, we even decided not to pay our taxes.
We wanted to attack Pakistan, there were numerous mails being forwarded showing what Paksitanis think of us, who is to be blamed for these attacks or how the intelligence faield or how the report never reached the concerned authorities, how Alyque Padamsee and Mahesh Bhatt feel and how Vilarao was being an ass for not accepting his mistake but rather asking why did not politicians quit when Parliament attacked.
It was a shame for India and all this was not helping.
People quit, but I thought quitting was the easiest way out. You can quit and have a press conference and take the blame and leave, it is upto the next guy who comes in who has to make the tough decisions and face the public banter.
Good Vilasrao left, but what happened next, in came Chaggan Bhujbal, the guy who was sacked because of his involvement with the Telgi case, brilliant I say!
Now, almost a month has passed and we are waiting for some serious action. We have given Pakistan a list of 20 criminals from our Most Wanted. Pakistan inturn sends another 20 they want and infact refuses to hand over Pak Citizens to India.
One day they buckle under UN pressure, one day they say we will co-operate. I really do not know what will happen.
The Pakistan media thinks the guy who has been caught is just an ordinary Paksitani and we just want to malign Pakistan and hence are just saying all these things.
They say BJP, RSS and VHP could be behind all these attacks, in their state all these groups are what LeT and Jaish is to India!
When I eventually began writing this piece the idea was to just express some views, some thoughts, some feelings.
The idea was to keep it in my memory, and the best way was to keep it here. This shall remain and hope this shall never repeat!
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