Mumbai Under Siege : India Helpless

The incident was paralyzing ... I wanted to believe that all this was just a nightmare ... but as we all know it wasnt ... Why are there so many attacks? Why are we as a country nothing but a soft target to terror? Why cant we feel secure in our homeland? Why can no one feel secure on our homeland?

I think this has more faces than one. I think we need to do a lot first before we expect security. I think we as citizens need to stop being immune to these incidents ... and see what can be done to make the place we live in better ... no I am not talking about fighting the war against terror with arms and army ... while that is needed for our defense against the cross-border terrorists, we need to show the world that there is no problem within. We need to show that we Indians stand united and the home is clean and terror free ... and then say if anyone casts a terror spell on us, we will deal with that strongly. A lot needs to be fixed inside the country ... first being our nature of being compromising about infrastructural deficiencies ... but the problem runs much deeper than we can imagine and we cannot just sit and complain. We need to get involved in cleaning up the mess.

The problem to begin with is .... we dont know what level of competence we should expect from our governments, or from our public servants, policemen, postal dept or even the municipality and road contractors ... we dont know what is the reason we vote ... we dont know why we like the leader we follow, we dont know why we write exams and what we should expect after we pass that exam ... we dont know why we do the job we do ... somewhere this lack of understanding has led us to be like robots and maybe that's why we spring back to action as soon as the curfew is lifted ... as if nothing happened ... we connive at many things ... we connive at the faults of our children, parents, siblings, friends and even enemies ... we dont know what to expect or where that fault can lead us. We dont know how we should define efficiency in our life and hence we have inefficient govts and security systems. 

Now the problem of " We dont know " roots from a bigger problem of not asking "Why?" from childhood and then it becomes a way of life and we very easily resign to fate.

So where is the solution? or is there a solution?

There is but it will take a while and a lot of resilience. It will take a lifetime ... but I am sure it will be worth it. And here is where we have to do everything to unite and also parallely diminish the cause of creation of miscreants - poverty and lack of "proper"  education.