A Tragedy Which Was Waiting To Happen….

I may be off the schema of adoring or deploring the beauty or devastation of Mother Nature when am writing this post. But I feel that if I have to honor or abhor Mother Nature, I need to first respect the righteousness of the people who are her subjects!

The serial blasts that went off in Jaipur the other day, was just the kind of reality that justifies my concern. Not that such tragedies have never happened before, nor am assuming it will stop post this particular incident….but the perpetrators of this tragedy, has no doubt been successful in instilling the fear of insecurity among my fellow Indians. What it also points out to, is the largely ineffective, spineless and politically shrewd leadership of both the state of Rajasthan & the Government of India.

While I buy the theory that terrorism of this scale targeted at innocent civilians is not entirely preventable, the issue of a country providing its citizens a safe haven to live and propagate their ideals, still remains valid.

Neither the Congress which has a stupendous record of serving the Indian citizens and who is a major part of the country’s present ruling alliance, nor the chauvinistic BJP who governs the state of Rajasthan, where this unfortunate incident happened, seemed to have any idea of dealing with the crisis! India’s leadership today has become a minority appeasement agency!! Each one of us who have advertantly or inadvertently elected this government is answerable to the kins of the hundreds who died because of no fault of their own!! Am not trying to imply that all the ‘Minorities’ are terrorists, but there are certain elements of terrorism even among the majority of minorities, that are hindering our progress as a developing nation!!

In my opinion, we should take a leaf out of Israel’s book…. that for any Jew who gets killed, they will kill twice or thrice the number of Arab terrorist Muslims. After all when will we learn that sometimes it is necessary for us to be offensive rather than be defensive , if we have to safeguard our territory and its citizens?

However, the fact today remains that India as a country which boasts of being the mother of peaceful saints (Mahatma, Buddha, Ashoka et al) has become a soft target for the neo –Talibanis. The Jaipur blasts, whosoever has done it, had truly had their moment of glory!!