Thursday, January 1, 2009

When do we learn? When will India be safe?

A little more than month after Mumbai attacks. A couple of months after blasts in Assam. The blasts repeat themselves. We cannot say, ‘history repeats itself’, as the attacks on Indian soil are not history yet. Assam sees three blasts on the evening of January 1, 2009. Could the perpetrators have found a better day?

You have politicians still talking, pointing fingers, covering their bums and finally bullshitting. You and I, the citizens of India are still living to die an unexpected death.

Yesterday here in Bombay, Police were patrolling the streets like never before. They are keeping vigil on the city and we are told they are well equipped to handle and kind of incident of attack on the city. What about Assam?

Why were these steps not taken in Assam? And our security system stinks. Doesn’t it? The home minister was supposed to be coming to Assam and was supposed to be passing that route. I am sure the security agencies, have done a complete combing of the areas which will be touched by the home minister. What searching have they done?

Yes, the number of people killed in today’s incident in Assam are low. Three as now. But aren’t they lives?

They question that comes to my mind is that, ‘am I safe anywhere in India’, ‘are you’?

This is a result of governance and the governors – a failure of both. Poor governance has led to misuse of power in wrong directions and being unprepared to go in the right direction. By governance, I mean the politicians who fight based on caste and religion, security agencies that are paid peanuts and hence, hire moneys and finally the govt. officials who are so corrupt (mind you, corruption in India is a function of poor salaries paid to them and someway their attitude towards life in general).

Can the governors stop being corrupt and do their duty as they should and work towards improving governance? Secondly, can we citizens work out governance principles based on our experiences in our careers?


I for sure can help India market itself to the world. What can you do?

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