Aye dil hai mushkil jeena yahan
Zara hat ke zara bach ke, yeh hai Bombay meri jaan
The song dates back to 1956 from the movie C.I.D, but the lines seems to be apt even in 2011.
26/11 terrorist attack, 7 blast & counting, the loss of thousands of innocence lives has completely shattered the image of this city. The city once known as city of dreams has become the city of nightmares. Hardly when we recovered from the trauma of one attack, there is another reminder ready to be served. The pain, the agony, the despair just refuses to subside.
While the world & the politicians can only condemn the blast, start the blame game & pour in their condolences, we Mumbaikars just like sitting ducks wait for another blast to rock the city. The world praises about our resilience and spirit with which we bounce back. Let be the 26/11 terrorist attacks, the 7/11 train blast or 1993 blast, Mumbai has always bounced back and moved on. The whole city is back to work the very next day.
But isn’t this making us a soft target?
While USA immediately beefed up their security measures after the 9/11 attacks, While India on other hand just keeps on setting up the inquiry committees. We as Mumbaikars just pour out our anger on Twitter and Facebook. We just sit back and hope that we are not the next.
Leave apart being Shangai, can we ever be a better Mumbai.
Couldn't agree more with the tweet "I Don't Wanna Ask Govt 2 Hang KASAB.. I Just Wanna Request Them 2 Protect Us In The Same Way As They Have Protected Him."
Even after writing & reading about all these, we all will just think about the apathy and forget it. Every time we say that 'This time I am not going to just watch and forget, I am going to take action and protest because if I still keep quite I will be taken for granted.I need a better life. I work hard for it, I pay taxes for it, you can’t finish my life'. But our outrage is very short lived. Hope our lives are not.
Hope prevails, hope survives. Hope for a dream and not a nightmare.
The dark history of the terror attacks on Mumbai
March 12, 1993: Serial blasts rock Mumbai 257 killed 713 injured.
Oct 29, 1993: Blast in Matunga station, two killed, over 40 injured.
Feb 27, 1998: Blasts in Virar, Thane, two killed.
Dec 2, 2002: Blast in bus in Ghatkopar, two killed, 49 injured.
Dec 6, 2002: Blast in Mumbai Central Station, 22 injured.
Jan 27, 2003: Blast near Vile Parle Station, over 30 injured.
March 13, 2003: Blast in train in Mulund, 13 killed, over 80 injured.
July 29, 2003: Blast in bus in Ghatkopar, three killed, 30 injured.
Aug 25, 2003: Twin blasts at Zaveri Bazar and Gateway of India, 55 killed, over 150 injured.
May 3, 2006: Blast in Ghatkopar, one killed.
July 11, 2006: Blast in seven suburban trains, 189 killed, over 1,000 injured.
Nov 26-29, 2008: Mumbai terror attacks, 166 killed and over 300 injured.
July 13, 2011: Three blasts rock south Mumbai, including Zaveri Bazar, 21 killed, 130 injured.
All we gonna do is sit & wait for the next one..Unless one that really hits us.
da major mistake dat da city is doin is its bouncing bak da next day, if mumbaikars all take a decision together dat they wont get to work for days till justice is given thnk wat wud be attained.. not even a vehicle should run ... no 1 shud work ... if dis is dun mumbai suffers a financial loss true but its an eye opener for indian citizens and da fuckol govt!!! da spirit of mumbai as dey say is nothin but a forced option for bread n butter... gimmicks by our bloody govt!!! Is mumbai strong? is Mumbai united den fyt!!
ReplyDeleteHarsh Truth & Subtle Lies... I already gav my comment to u. :-)
ReplyDeleteA question though we always say we should not keep quiet, we shld do somthing...but Mumbaikars go back to living der life as they always did.
What should ppl do wen such thngs happen... hw cn we help the government...hw do we change the situation?
A good article thou :-)
ReplyDeleteP.S - Fix that typo and still waiting for the article you were to write last week.
As I mumbaikar, I really have no idea what to do... My bf in Banaglore says that we should all just move... move away... get to a safer place... and deprive this city of its glory... after all this golden city is nothing without its hardworking, ambitious and resilient people...
ReplyDeleteI still don't know what to do with the anger...
@Tania: Running away from the very city tht sheltered u...is it really u will like to do??
ReplyDelete@Dipti: There is something better we can always do rather than just sitting back like a duck
@Max: Very rightly said..Need to stand united..
gud artickls and i have came upto a a idea!
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@theunsocialguy....ofcourse there is something better we can do....and wat is that something... we talk about it...we blog about it...we discuss....wat next...can we contribute more?
ReplyDeleteI think there are lot of youngsters who have lot of anger, hatred for whatever is happening and would want to know how can they help. What action can they take?
Read this tweet during the blasts 'Life in India is like Twitter. Everyone will keep talking about the #mumbaiblasts until something new starts trending.' which is so true.
Ppl talk about this when it happens and then soon get back to der normal life. Sad but true.