Dedications

Bombay once famed as a city of dreams in now reduced to rumbles of a city of fear. Now one ends up even dreaming fear. The recent terror attack has once again proven it even stronger. Its’ not that we don’t have enough fear to live with. Every day for most Bombayites even reaching home alive is a dream. It does not have to be just a terrorist attack. Even a train journey to work and back home is a risk. A drive on Bombay roads is a risk. Rains are a risk. Eating food and drinking water is a risk. Breathing the air is a risk. Hoping of a city that is governed by law and order is the biggest risk of fear.

Recently we had people from the MSN party rough up officials as the roads were in a bad condition. Now will they rough up the police as they too not functioning? Will they rough up politicians for the blasts? How much more Bull Sh#T is Bombay going to cope with and live with? After the terrorist attack of 26/11, we had one of the ministers who commented that such small incidents do happen in big cities. Now we have our CM proudly claiming that Bombay is not a soft target. We are not interested in knowing the density unit of hardness that Bombay is able to withstand attacks. We want to know the hardness of the law to deal with it? In our country media does the role of the police and covers crime and the police literally ‘covers’ crimes done. The judiciary has to function like the government and the government does the job of the mafia, by bullying innocents who decide to fast to protest and extortion of tax payers money which is done through scams.

With a population that is in multiples of some countries in the world, the city is bursting from it seam, and now we are bombed out of it. Those who are not affected care a damn, and for this attitude we are paying a price. Why not blame ourselves for the rut we have regaled ourselves too? Why do we need a PM visiting us when there is a crisis? How is the visit going to change anything? In fact it would be a blessing if the biggies from the centre stop visiting us, and when they do, they get the city to a grinding halt. Extra security is pressed in to protect their precious souls. Roads are blocked to traffic and their presence is a bigger pain to the already pained city. The passing the parcel game goes on and on. One party blames another. Wish all politicians would play a real game of passing the parcel and the parcel they pass on had a bomb; at least that way some of these jokers could be wiped out.

Every terrorist attack is indirectly hinted or alleged to have its origin in Pakistan. If that is so, and since we lack the balls to wage a war with them, can we stop the ongoing peace dialogue with them? A country which itself is getting blown to pieces daily what peace are we trying to make with them? Stop this cricket diplomacy and any other diplomacy to stem the problem. India gives a list of people that they want to be tried in India for various crimes, not realizing that a name in the list is a person who is in India. Now if you don’t know who the culprits are, what are you negotiating with Pakistan?

The killer of Afghanistan president’s brother recently was lynched and hung in a public place. If this can happen in Afghanistan who not in India? We don’t have to be feral in our approach but at least can we have Kasab and Afzal Guru face the gallows. These guys get high level security and citizens get none. Scam tainted politicians and tycoons enjoy a life a luxury in prison. If Bombay is a city of dreams and we continue believing, things will get achieved dreaming of better law and order, no more bombings, effective police……..Keep dreaming.