It is really broken like it happens during every terror
strike anywhere. After a year of no major blasts, terror has struck again
killing over 20 in India.
This time, the serial blasts have targeted Hyderabad.
Words can never describe such unexpected horror. They
always fall short in explaining the massive scale of loss made in every such
incident.
They leave us numb, sending a frozen panic down the
spines, throwing us, the common men - the class of the victims, into a state of
silent shock.
Yes, a silent shock, because the cries after every such
attack have failed to stir the sentiments of political class elected by us to
give us a better and secured life.
But like always, we are hearing and will hear the silly
statements and tall claims made by the politicians and the hyperactive delivery
by the media outfits.
The blast happened in the evening around 7 PM. It will
take some time for the clarity to settle in. Till then, it’s the time for
verbal overdose. Subsequently, the tide will lower down giving way to the
stinking politics.
How incredulous it has become to believe Manmohan Singh when
he says that those behind the Hyderabad
blast will not go unpunished. To company him is yet another vague-minded
minister tasked to handle the internal security of the country.
But why just these two, the track record of politicians,
in combating and mitigating the terror strikes, has been abysmal in India,
irrespective of their political affiliation.
Since 1994, over 60,000 people have lost their lives in
different types of terror attacks. And everytime, we are given some
‘high-on-words’ assurances that, by now, have become ‘so-low-on-substance’ that
they even fail to register, let alone generating some sort of trust.
The victim is always the common man. Like everytime, many
nonentities carrying out their day-to-day lives have died in a busy Hyderabad market place.
What the government would do?
It will engage in verbal jugglery. It would try to sound
as serious and sincere as it can be. It will send missives and issue appeals.
Some of its members would engage to supply the food for thoughtless thoughts on
the media carriers. Some others would sit tight to catch and reflect the verbal
volleys by the political opposition. Then, there would the bunch of so-called ‘this
breed of or that breed of experts. The drama happens every time.
But, in all this, no one bothers to listen to the common
man, Manmohan Singh’s ‘Aam Aadmi’, who is the only victim of the terror
strikes. He bears the brunt of the coward terrorists and an insensitive ruling
class.
Sushil Kumar Shinde, the home minister, said the
government had prior intelligence information and the state government was
informed two days ago. Still, nothing moves, these twin blasts tell.
What is the value of life of the common man in world’s
third largest economy, a nuclear power and an emerging superpower?
What should we assume - is there a lack of political will
to fight terror without any element of community appeasement?