"The 13 September 2008 Delhi bombings that took place within a span of few minutes on were a series of five synchronized bomb blastsSeptember 13, 2008 at various locations in Delhi, India. The first bomb exploded at 6:10 pm IST , and four other blasts followed in succession, with at least 30 people killed and over 100 injured."
Delhi bombings this time round were closer to my home this time. Last time, we heard the blast, and doors and windows of my home were shaken. This time also, we heard the twin bombs which went off at CP.
It was a very chilling experience to say the least. Hearing bombs near by and that too for the second time! All of us went silent for a few seconds, everyone knew that this sound didn’t come from a tire burst or a cracker, it was something more sinister.
Again, a lot of people lost their life…their relatives, friends, in short lost very precious pieces of their life. CP fell into a lull, it was so quiet, that it felt eerie and haunted. We are so used to hearing the sound of traffic, that when all of it stopped, we couldn’t adjust to the silence.
The bigger question remained that, how come? So many blasts in prime Indian cities, in such a short span of time, so much so that sometimes I tend to mix up the dates of the blasts, as if in a daze. The same old story keeps on getting repeated. Why? I kept asking the same question in my mind, as I couldn’t sleep that night.
Then the Batla House Encounter incident happened. A celebrated and dedicated cop(Inspector M.C.Sharma) was killed in that encounter, yet he managed to get some of those suspects arrested as a result. Still the most shocking part came later, that many politicians and Muslim orgs are calling the encounter a fake! A cop lost his life damnit! And even his wounds stand as a testimony that he was really killed in an encounter. He suffered wounds from two sides, which corroborate with the pattern of attacks he suffered from the suspects, from the front and from the side. Some people alleged that there was not much blood found on Sharma’s shirt where the bullets hit him. Those silly jackasses don’t know that when a bullet hits a person on the front and exits from the rear of his body, then the blood flows out of the exit wounds(the ones created when the bullet gets out of the body), and not from the initial wound in the front! Body science!!
Any way, who am I trying to explain this to? Even if I shouted this thing into their ears, they would surely turn deaf. And none of them are going to check out my blog for that matter.
So back to the bombings. We all have this ultra irritating habit of passing the blame on to the administration and the law enforcement, like it was confectionery. Although I am not saying that they are always slow to act, but there is something called a responsible citizen attitude, which most of us lack. I am pretty sure that most people, when giving their place on rent, don’t check the tracks of the tenant, and gladly chuck the rent money into their coffers. Or that how many people would actually report something, when they see some wrong being committed or something worthy of suspicions from law enforcement point of view. I haven’t done a survey, but the attitudes always seep through the society, and I can see it. Most even ignore it, others try to avoid it. Even after so many killings in Delhi alone by domestic helps, people hardly ever get the verification done. You obviously cant trust a person on face value these days, its like entering the cage of a tiger, and assuming that it wont attack. Now sometimes the tiger may not attack, for his own reasons(tummy full?) but it doesn’t mean that it wont attack everytime you dare. Simple analogy, but so damn difficult to drill it into the heads of those losers who don’t give a damn about all this.
Any way, my rantings can continue about the suspects and their ideologies, but I wont discuss them here, the maniacs are all over the net these days! In fact they have gone pretty tech-savvy, more than an average person, which is the most shrill alarm bell that can ever ring in my mind.
Any way, due to all this, I don’t know when the next batch tries to do something similar, but I can only hope that people will wake up from their apparently morphine-induced state of mind, and prop their heads up from the soil (even an ostrich is clever enough to do that after some time!).
Okay rant over!
Delhi bombings this time round were closer to my home this time. Last time, we heard the blast, and doors and windows of my home were shaken. This time also, we heard the twin bombs which went off at CP.
It was a very chilling experience to say the least. Hearing bombs near by and that too for the second time! All of us went silent for a few seconds, everyone knew that this sound didn’t come from a tire burst or a cracker, it was something more sinister.
Again, a lot of people lost their life…their relatives, friends, in short lost very precious pieces of their life. CP fell into a lull, it was so quiet, that it felt eerie and haunted. We are so used to hearing the sound of traffic, that when all of it stopped, we couldn’t adjust to the silence.
The bigger question remained that, how come? So many blasts in prime Indian cities, in such a short span of time, so much so that sometimes I tend to mix up the dates of the blasts, as if in a daze. The same old story keeps on getting repeated. Why? I kept asking the same question in my mind, as I couldn’t sleep that night.
Then the Batla House Encounter incident happened. A celebrated and dedicated cop(Inspector M.C.Sharma) was killed in that encounter, yet he managed to get some of those suspects arrested as a result. Still the most shocking part came later, that many politicians and Muslim orgs are calling the encounter a fake! A cop lost his life damnit! And even his wounds stand as a testimony that he was really killed in an encounter. He suffered wounds from two sides, which corroborate with the pattern of attacks he suffered from the suspects, from the front and from the side. Some people alleged that there was not much blood found on Sharma’s shirt where the bullets hit him. Those silly jackasses don’t know that when a bullet hits a person on the front and exits from the rear of his body, then the blood flows out of the exit wounds(the ones created when the bullet gets out of the body), and not from the initial wound in the front! Body science!!
Any way, who am I trying to explain this to? Even if I shouted this thing into their ears, they would surely turn deaf. And none of them are going to check out my blog for that matter.
So back to the bombings. We all have this ultra irritating habit of passing the blame on to the administration and the law enforcement, like it was confectionery. Although I am not saying that they are always slow to act, but there is something called a responsible citizen attitude, which most of us lack. I am pretty sure that most people, when giving their place on rent, don’t check the tracks of the tenant, and gladly chuck the rent money into their coffers. Or that how many people would actually report something, when they see some wrong being committed or something worthy of suspicions from law enforcement point of view. I haven’t done a survey, but the attitudes always seep through the society, and I can see it. Most even ignore it, others try to avoid it. Even after so many killings in Delhi alone by domestic helps, people hardly ever get the verification done. You obviously cant trust a person on face value these days, its like entering the cage of a tiger, and assuming that it wont attack. Now sometimes the tiger may not attack, for his own reasons(tummy full?) but it doesn’t mean that it wont attack everytime you dare. Simple analogy, but so damn difficult to drill it into the heads of those losers who don’t give a damn about all this.
Any way, my rantings can continue about the suspects and their ideologies, but I wont discuss them here, the maniacs are all over the net these days! In fact they have gone pretty tech-savvy, more than an average person, which is the most shrill alarm bell that can ever ring in my mind.
Any way, due to all this, I don’t know when the next batch tries to do something similar, but I can only hope that people will wake up from their apparently morphine-induced state of mind, and prop their heads up from the soil (even an ostrich is clever enough to do that after some time!).
Okay rant over!
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