India's war against terrorism...

Thanks to the lack of any will (political or apolitical), citizens of India remain vulnerable to all sorts of terrorist attacks within their own motherland. We have a countless list of haves and only a single blot in the have not part – we don’t have any assurance of a natural death, or in a country with increasing life expectancy the life of citizens are cut short by non physiological problems.
The list of reasons for the unnatural death is long for India – malnourishment, pre natal negligence, pregnancy and delivery failures due to untrained nurses, rowdy drivers prowling on the roads – it goes on and on. Terrorism is the coolest entry in this list - an entry as destructive as any natural calamity and as mouthwatering for the political parties to cash on vote bank politics.
From Delhi, to Varanasi, to Mumbai, to Malegaon, to Bangalore, to Hyderabad – the list of cities under terrorist threat is increasing and if the latest statement from honorable home minister is taken seriously then Indians should brace for more such incidents. If my knowledge of geography is right then USA or China or Russia is bigger in size than India – yet according to official statement it is because of the vastness of our country that such attacks couldn’t be prevented. With all negatives to American adventures in foreign shores – no American life has been lost post 9/11 due to terrorist attack. A country which doesn’t give enough value to the lives of its citizens is rare to find – and as always all such records belong to India. How easy it is to blame the neighbors – even before investigation starts – to wash away hands off the responsibility. How easy it is to talk of resilience, to talk of being calm and composed and to talk of people being jealous about our progress and communal harmony. All successive governments irrespective of political ideology and power has shown nothing but callous attitude towards the value of citizen’s life – probably because a dead person is no more a factor in the voter’s list. Those hapless families – uncountable as they now must be, are left to the vagaries of the cruel liabilities – forgotten under heaps of garlands and hollow promises.
India has become a soft state and there is absolutely no debate on that. The focus has now turned into a grim reality staring in your face situation – how many more innocent lives need to be lost before the country wakes up? I am neither a knowledgeable bureaucrat nor a learned journalist – hence statistics is not my forte. But my simple question is – how much of it is a coincidence that till date, hardly any politician or people in the power circle have been targeted by the terrorists? The fact that they are capable enough to do that was proven by the attack on the parliament; hence their sudden change of focus is intriguing. I guess, by now even the terrorists have understood that government of India is only concerned about saving their own skins. Till such times when suicide bombers hit parliament or kill half a dozen politicians, none from Delhi would pose any challenge to terrorism. It’s an easy documentary – be aloof from such heinous crimes till innocent citizens are finished, keep garlands and speeches ready for such occasions laced with crocodile tears and blindly blame neighbors to avoid any meaningful investigation inside India.
Till even few months back, I used to think that I should be proud to be an Indian, but no more. Being an Indian was never my choice and given one, I wouldn’t want to be. I don’t want a life (not for me and neither for my children) where every step outside home could potentially lead to fatal separation, I don’t respect a country which gives a damn to it’s citizen’s life and I refuse to live just with the burden of a glorified past camouflaged to hide horrific present. Those gory scenes of shredded bodies, of spilled blood are not what I want to present to the future generations.
And how dearly I wish that I had a choice of choosing my nation – a nation where the citizen is not used as a pawn in the game of terror, where a child could enjoy a safe life and where people wouldn’t think twice before enjoying their life the way they want – a life colorful and joyous enough to be cherished and valued by every citizen of that country.