Mumbai 7/11 blasts

SALUTE TO THE RAILMEN, THE COMMON MAN ... THE MUMBAIKAR.

The devastated coaches, mangled boogies scared the daylights out of me, sitting at home!! What if(God forbid!!) any of my near and dear ones were on that train/station!!! (touchwood, all famliy, friends, relatives are safe!!)
I shudder had the very thought. Even as pictures keep flashing on the news channel, the rising toll to almost 200 and the TOI filled with news about blasts, it sends shivers down my spine to think it all happened in places where a common Mumbaikar hops(to the ticket counter), skips(into the train) and jumps(out on to his destination) !!!

THE NEXT DAY,
I dont allow my kid bro to go to school(he doesnt go by any public transport), but its so scary to send him out of the house, the floods, the bandh, now who knows what will happen where next?!?!?. ...
But there was something remarkable about Mumbai, i read "Local people on the roads to help.." .... "some offering water to people walking down streets"
"A hostel feeds n gives shelter to 600 stranded commuters, free of cost"
"People turn out in large number for donating blood"
"MUMBAI BACK ON TRACK!!"
"BSE jumps 300+ points and slaps terrin the papers, saw on TV,
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SALUTE TO THE RAILMEN, who were tirelessly working all night to get Mumbai back on tracks for the next day...
Not a drop of blood, or a sign of the dead on stations, mangles removed from the tracks, all clean!!
Link (from MumbaiMirror)

Who is targeted, by whom?(the news channels ask)
Whole of India is being targetted by attacking the commercial capital's most enthusiastic investors, regular office-goers, brokers, in fact sole bread earners of families too!!!
The terrorist have bombed us time n again...
'93 blasts were as horrific sight as of 7/11

But is anyone among the ruling party/opposition party/etc.. those who are responsible for our safety really feeling an inch of pain that Mumbaikar has gone through??

The city resurrects, yet again the Mumbaikars get salutes
'Salute Mumbai Spirit - teh neer dying spirit'
'Salaam Mumbai'
'Resilience Personified!!' (a link to an TOI editorial, dated 13th July 2006)
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STOP SALUTING MUMBAI!!! ... ya stop saluting us, AND DO SOMETHING FOR US!!

How long do we bear up with bad roads, water shortages, traffic snarls, flooded roads and... now, now innocent lives at stake!!! terrorist attacks...!!
One after another, trains get blasted at peak hours!!!
Can the CM/opposition leader imagine his family member being in that 1st class coach??
How much taxes do Mumbaikars pay and what do we get??
Why dint the police get alerted when 40+ kgs of RDX was found in Aurangabad and other places in Maharashtra??
Dint they realise it was for targetting Mumbai?

"A captured LeT man says 'I told you so' (about Mumbai trains being the target!)" .. more on it (Front page, Mumbai Mirror dated 13th july, 2006)

What after the rdx thing at Byculla??
Why arent security measure upto the mark?

DONT tell Mumbaikars about shortage of police force!!
Why do the MLAs, VIPs etc.. need so much of security?? That there aint many police force left to safeguard the common man?
DEMOCRACY - is government for the people, of the people, by the people... then why is their secuirty more important than other people?

What's wrong if any of kins/kids of any of those suffering in blasts(be it Srinagar/Mumbai) get mad at the apathy of government and become terrorist?
The way US bombed Afghanistan, it just isn't surprising to see LeT is getting new recruits from there!!
Why shouldnt he/she just take a weapon and aim those who could have made a difference, but instead just make visits to incident spots and hospitals??
Why doesnt the government assure that the responsible; will be got hold of in a week?
No, we aint bothered if your satellite got burst/missile failed(though its our money, atleast none of us were dead!!!!)
Humans who pay a big chunk of India's taxes getting trampled like ants!

SS pelts stones in Akola, (wonder how can the have the nerve to do such things at a time like this!!) Destroying public property, creating unrest...
Where were these sentimental people when Mumbai was getting blasted? not a hand of help, not a drop of human kindness!!
Just annouce, "stone throwing event at XYZ place" and you will find a large number of them!! Its ridiculous the way the vandalise and hibernate when human help is required!!

Salman Khan is peeved every now and then for some damned buck, it makes news, media people get opportunity to flashback on his life to add some masala. But waht about Sanjay Dutt, who knew about '93 blasts?!!?
Did we forgive him?? Will you forgive if you lost your father/mother/child/sibling/friend in the blasts? Why do we watch his films? Isnt he just like the terrorists or maybe even worse?

"Light a candle" and donate a rupee!!!
DAMN!!! DO WE PAY A RUPEE EACH AS TAXES?!!?!?!!
Just mourn, donate and forget, relive every year on blast anniversary!!!
BLAH...

(cont-)
.... an agitated, frustrated Mumbaikar( i hope i share similar views with many others)

PS: Modi comes to Mumbai,.. for what? to tell us about 'how bombs burst?' or to send more smses telling us that it dint happen during this and that party's rule?
Are we even bothered to know? We just know we are being bombed since more than a decade now AND NO ONE CARES, neither the administration, nor any ruling/opposition party.. all of them just useless!!