A Wednesday

“Gang war in Mumbai, 2 groups open fire”, that’s what my Gchat alert told me at 2101 hrs when I was talking to my wife on the net. I was relieved. Yes it was after a long while, I thought, that the bad guys have resorted to the old ways. To me it’s the most effective way of reducing the number of bad guys.

But slowly the story started to unravel. We witnessed probably the most co ordinated terrorist attack after 9/11. The motto behind the attack is still unknown but we need be a rocket scientist to acknowledge the fact that we are now an economic super power. Some people do not like to see that. They want to us to feel weak. They have proven that we are venerable to every kind of attack. They attacked us with Bombs in 1993, they attacked us in Local trains in 2006 and now they have used guns to shatter our confidence. They have succeeded…. Yes they surely have shaken us. There is another theory being propagated. They say that the attacks were directed more towards the US and other western world rather than India. Foreigners were specially targeted in the Oberoi, the Taj and the Leopord. An attack in any case was on Indian soil.

India has seen more than 14 major bomb blast incidents in last 3 years and I am sure most of us will agree when I say that we have now taken it in our stride to accept blasts. But this time was different. This time people have been terrified by attacking the symbols that were of pride to us. It’s the same way as Al Quaida attacked the Twin towers in US.

A logical question that must now be asked is 14 terrorist attacks in 3 years …. Where is the security system? Its easy for us to criticise but we need to understand the complex nature of the job that our security forces have to perform. They have to work without a political will to tackle this menace. Not to mention issues like the huge population, the age old and inadequate terror laws, the huge size of the country and its diversity. Intelligence in India is neither scientific nor reliable. Human Rights activists are seen at every corner of all metropolitan cities. But now with this attack I feel that we should declare A WAR ON TERROR. Lets start action on war footing basis.

We in India have a billion brain… Brains which should now be used…. Lets come together to try and think “out of box” and try and find a solution to this problem which I am sure everyone will agree is a bigger crisis for India …. Even more critical than the Economic crisis. Its time that we have a national policy on terrorism

Some of the common Solutions to tackle terrorism as suggested by many experts include

1. A New stricter Anti terrorism law to be enacted
2. Intelligence method and network needs to be revamped

I urge all the brilliant brains to share their Ideas. We cannot take this any more.

Lets pledge to fight terrorism!!!!