Year after year, we are witness to a disturbing precedent. The nation has been a victim to a rising number of terrorist attacks organized by a motley of extremist groups supposedly based from our neighbouring countries. The precedent that I'm taliking about is the tendency of our political 'leaders' to put the entire blame for the fiasco on our neighbouring countries. By doing so, they try to take themselves out of the spotlight ignited by national anger. They try to cleverly use the deep rooted mistrust that Indians have for some of their neighbouring countries. They divert the national anger upon others. They cleverly play the blame game and accuse other countries as the cause of all of the nation's plights, while trying hard to hide their own inefficacies. The mob, which is in a fit of shock and rage at this point, readily gobbles up all this propoganda and they fall prey to hate politics.
I'm not trying to excuse our neighbouring countries from whatever crimes that they have committed against us. Terrorism is a heinous activity, and any person or organization that uses terrorism as his/it's policy deserve to rot in hell. What I'm trying to say is that instead of playing the blame game, our 'leaders' need to grow up and take steps to prevent future such disruptions in the healthy life of this nation. But sadly, this does not seem to be the case. Life is still very cheap in India. The issue of public security is still taken very lightly. The police is neigther propperly equipped nor propperly trained to face the challenge of global terrorism. One would have thought that after the disasater of 26/11, the government of India would have learned its lesson. But the blasts which took place on 13/7 recently prove otherwise. What this shows us is that despite promises(never kept) to the people of India, promises meant to safeguard us, the terrorists can still strike at will in the financial capital of india. This city claims to be the nerve center of India. This is a city that is the global face of India, the producer of wealth in our country. In short, this city can be said to be the global face of India, and if terrorists can strike here with such ease, this raises a serious question about the security preparedness of the entire nation.
