t1.jpgWhen we say ‘We will not forget’, isn’t there a tiredness to the tone?

Hasn’t the below list grown a little too long to remember?

And we are not shaken, perhaps because there is nothing left to be shaken, perhaps we are mature enough to treat terror attacks as another news item.

Many of the dead would have been waiting for that 7-0 sweep, little do they know that they watched the last ball of the series.

Going by the toll, one in about ten million Indians were directly affected. Not a big deal. But when you connect the hundred dead to faces, families, friends and neighbourhoods, and then you imagine the sudden explosion and the ugly randomness of the deaths, it gets a tad heavy. And then we change the channel.

Sacrifices are important for a cause. People die. Not a big deal. But as someone put it, when you are young you have dreams, you hope to hell and don’t want to die. All the attackers, reports say were in their early twenties. Very young. Most of them are dead, and the police will kill the rest of them in a few hours.

Guardian reports one of those young men saying “Muslims in India should not be persecuted. We love this as our country but when our mothers and sisters were being killed, where was everybody?”  – I hope this is not a trick question.

A day of true heroism from the Mumbai police. They are the chosen ones, the good shepherds.

For one day, maybe for a few hours more – We are all Mumbaikars (hope Raj has no issues)

No point in blaming Pakistan, they had a suicide attack even yesterday.

Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – there is something seriously flawed about our civilization.

It’s tiring isn’t it? the toll?

When we say ‘We will not forget’, isn’t there a tiredness to the tone?

Hasn’t the below list grown a little too long to remember? 

courtesy: Guardian, Wiki.

May 13, 2008 – at least 63 were killed in 9 bomb blasts along 6 areas in Jaipur.
July 25, 2008 – at least 2 were killed and 20 injured in 8 low intensity bomb blasts in Bangalore.
July 26, 2008 – 56 were killed and over 110 injured in 17 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad.
September 13, 2008 – at least 15 were killed and over 110 injured in 5 bomb blasts in Delhi markets.
September 27, 2008 – 1 killed and at least 17 injured in bombings at Mehrauli area 2 bomb blasts in Delhi flower market.
September 29, 2008 – 10 killed and 80 in bombings in Maharashtra and Gujarat bomb blasts.
October 1, 2008 – 0-4 killed and up to 100 injured in Agartala bombing.
October 21, 2008 – 17 killed and at least 40 injured in Imphal bomb blast.
October 30, 2008 – 45+ killed and at least 300 injured in Assam bomb blast.
November 26, 2008 – At least 101 killed and 287 injured in a coordinated attack in Mumbai.

And in time…

March 12, 1993
257 killed and more than 1,000 injured in 15 co-ordinated bomb attacks in Bombay. The attacks were seen as retaliation for earlier anti-Muslim riots that left hundreds dead

February 14, 1998
46 people were killed and more than 200 injured in 13 car bombs in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The attacks were blamed on the “Al Umma” Islamist group

December 13, 2001
7 killed when five gunmen, one wearing a suicide vested, attack the parliament complex in New Delhi. The assailants all died in the attack, and four members of the Pakistan-based Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammed were later convicted for their part in the plot

August 25, 2003
At least 45 people killed and 150 injured when twin car bombs exploded, one near the Taj Mahal hotel, and the other in a jewellery market near the Mumba Devi temple in central Mumbai. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities blamed the Kashmiri Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba

October 29, 2005
61 killed and at least 210 injured when three bombs explode in markets in New Delhi two days before the Hindu festival of Diwali. A little-known Kashmiri militant organisation, Islami Inqilabi Mahaz (Islamic Revolutionary Group) claimed responsibility, but authorities blamed Lashkar-e-Taiba

July 11, 2006
At least 200 killed and 700 injuried when seven bombs exploded in crowded commuter trains during the evening rush hour near Mumbai. Police blamed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)

August 25, 2007
At least 42 people killed when two bombs exploded in Hyderabad’s Lumbini park and a restaurant

May 13, 2008 – at least 63 were killed in 9 bomb blasts along 6 areas in Jaipur.
July 25, 2008 – at least 2 were killed and 20 injured in 8 low intensity bomb blasts in Bangalore.
July 26, 2008 – 56 were killed and over 110 injured in 17 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad.
September 13, 2008 – at least 15 were killed and over 110 injured in 5 bomb blasts in Delhi markets.
September 27, 2008 – 1 killed and at least 17 injured in bombings at Mehrauli area 2 bomb blasts in Delhi flower market.
September 29, 2008 – 10 killed and 80 in bombings in Maharashtra and Gujarat bomb blasts.
October 1, 2008 – 0-4 killed and up to 100 injured in Agartala bombing.
October 21, 2008 – 17 killed and at least 40 injured in Imphal bomb blast.
October 30, 2008 – 45+ killed and at least 300 injured in Assam bomb blast.
November 26, 2008 – At least 101 killed and 287 injured in a coordinated attack in Mumbai.