The first piece of information that we received about the mindless attacks were over the phone, a little beyond 10:30pm on Wednesday. That was when the first among us in the hostel got a call from a concerned brother, to find out if everything was fine.If she and her friends were safe? Then the speculations started, what could have happened? By the time we got out to access some live news the internet was down. The intensity of the so called blast was sinking in, when one among us actually got the right information; it was not only a blast but mindless firing and a possible hostage situation. The death tolls had not been announced but several were injured, we were told. Frantic calls to parents and loved ones confirming that we were safe were all made.
Overcoming the initial pangs of selfishness, retribution set in. The full impact hit me the next morning. I woke up to a call from my cousin; my uncle and aunt were concerned, they ordered me not to step out. I hung up wondering what it was that I had deserved to be there and safe. Reading the newspaper was like a blow in the face, the full impact of the situation forming in the mind.
I'm no hero; I am but a common girl who feels. Anger, a total outright anger. Anger at who? Anger at what? It’s more to do with the fact that I cannot do anything... anger at my own helplessness. Where was this mindlessness leading to? To what purpose? I am not one among the many who lost; but am I not? Though I did not know them, they did die; did religion matter then?? Really!! The question is why? The logical answer is something that all of us know.
Two articles in today's TOI have put out beautifully what there is to say.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Keep_up_the_spirit_to_fight/articleshow/3774369.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Sunday_TOI/Toothless_leaders_turn_tough_nation_into_soft_state/articleshow/3774145.cms
I won’t use the labelling to the incident, calling it that is acknowledging that they can instill a fear in our minds; I will not because there is no fear, it’s a numbness... to put it right I am comfortably numb to who they are but not to what they are doing to my country.
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