Terror in our lives.
26th November 2008. Bombay, Mumbai, the financial capital of India, has been attacked. In the next few days, the details will be discussed and analyzed, the attacks condemned, promises will be made. condolences, well written and spoken ones, will be circulated. Flowers will be sent, candles will be lit. A nation will mourn. The whole world will pause for a fleeting moment, will stand by in silence. Continued silence and then.. then we move on.. ? There has been indifference within us, to the terror attacks in India. Why would not we be ? The dead do not linger, but horrors of the events live on tv ? They will haunt us. Technology has moved us. Grief towards the dead has been replaced by anger towards those who suffer. 8000 miles away, it is worrying. Anything closer.. not imaginable. A total structural collapse of our system. A System, never held accountable for the lapses, mistakes, blunders and disasters. The anger should be sustained, Questions should be asked, the system be held a