Two days...
It will all be forgotten in two days. The city will ‘bounce back’, ‘show its resilience’ and ‘give ample proof of its never-say-die spirit’. It doesn’t matter that a few hundred people are no more. A few hundred lives mercilessly cut short, a few hundred dreams cruelly snapped. A few hundred numbers, a few hundred statistics. A few hundred funerals, and then life will be the same again. Because it’ll all be forgotten in two days.
The same old bickering between political parties. The Shiv Sena blaming the NCP for ruining the state. The BJP slinging mud at the Congress for letting the law-and-order situation crumble. Fiery speeches, bloated egos, ulterior motives, heartless politicians, and a mindless public.
But it’ll all be forgotten. Empty abuses, helplessness, anger and rage. There is nothing anyone can do about it. Other than try fighting the system, and giving up one’s own life in the process. Not in one swift stroke of a chopper, or a momentary bang from a pistol. Worse, much worse! Giving up the life slowly, gradually. Day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute. Worrying. About oneself, the family. Worrying about whether one will get to witness the next hour.
So one abuses – empty, vacuous expletives that mean nothing, and can do no harm. And then one forgets. ‘Terror strikes Bombay…Again’. The same headlines, the same pictures. We’ve been there before, and done that. And consoled ourselves – ‘It can’t happen to me’. It always happens to someone else, until one day we’re the ‘someone else’ for someone else.
And terror will strike Bombay again. Because we do nothing about it. Perhaps because we can’t do anything about it. Because we’re strong. And brave. And resilient. And we can ‘bounce back’. We are Indians too; we forgive. And forget. A little too soon. Two days is all it takes…
8 Responses to Two days...
ouch... cold, crisp, n so true!
hey its true yaar............i was just worried abt how desensitized(hope i got the spelling rite)everyone has become to all of it..........
like rats....we just keep going........
and still going no where...
yeah, true...."mumbai spirit"...come rain, storm, bombings, terrorist threats...we shall still stand up and accept it all, without a fight......
Money is what matters. One cant afford to stay back home as nothing else is as important as the greenbacks. Cold mortals, with stoned hearts walk their way to work again and call it resilience. All it takes is a week's effort to jolt the leaders down from their perennial slumber, but it's easier to walk one's way to office while risking his life than losing money for a week.
Shameless cowards, wimps, is what we are. And all we do is talk like we're doing right now.
...and life goes on
Bombay s had what 2 blasts, 2 or 3 flood like situations? and we call ourselves resillient! What would you call people of Kashmir then? They cant even forget it. Not in two days, not in two months, 2 years, not in two decades. They are not allowed to!!
We are fortunate that we can and do forget it. Two days is 48 hours, is 2880 mins, is 1728200 seconds. Big Time for a city that knows the value of each of those one sixth of a million seconds.
Reacting to such cowardly acts in any manner except standing in their face would give their perpetrators all that they need. It will give them them a sense of achievement which is more dangerous than the indifference that they get, which I m sure baffles them. That s why it took 13 years for such an incident to recur. It might happen again, and Bombay shall stare back at them again....straight in their face as if nothing happened!!
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