Dedicated to All Those Who Were Martyred in Mumbai

Its been tough to watch mumbai the way it has been. It just makes you wonder what exactly human life has become. And to watch the Taj going down that way, hasn't been a treat. We've all been really disturbed by it all. Things of this kind haven't happened. Bomb blasts we can handle, but this was way beyond all that. The media has been emphasising only on the death of three policemen, but what about the rest? Aren't they all important? And what about those foriegners? Imagine being in a country you don't know anything about and being a hostage there only to meet your end. Its so unreal and scary. Imagine going to a regular day at work, looking forward to cooking lovely meals, looking forward to another day of training, looking forward to meeting your friends for lunch, looking forward to a lovely evening when you are to get married, and then have everything wiped out in seconds.
Innocent people who probably never did a thing wrong in their lives have just been done to death in horrifying manners. At Nariman house, they killed the American Rabbi and his wife. 28 and 29, thats what their ages were. Their two year old son was released, but I wonder how much of pleading they would have had to do for that, how much of suffering they would have undergone in letting their son go, knowing that he would never probably ever know that they had been with him for two years of his life. Its just so inhuman, whatever these terrorists have done. They wanted a JW Marriot at the Taj! Is this the way to move on in the world? An eye for an eye? Its not eyes we're talking about here. Its life, people around whom the lives of their families revolved, people who were loved by at least one other person in this world, sons whose faces, their mothers wished they'd see every day.....children who lived for their parents, to see them come back home everyday to play with them.
What is more terrifying? To see your child's body covered with blood and just not responding? or to see a parent , knowing you will never see him alive again, knowing that one shade over your head is gone........
Its just too gruesome to think about it all. And the worst part of it all is that after all this, it will be put down after a few months as another terrorist attack, the spirit of mumbai will be hailed and it will all be over.
Thats it....just over.....life has become so different from what it was at one time..never thought i'd have to face days like these. Never thought that things would come down to such a low that our own so-called politicians would call this as , " Bade bade sheheron mein aisi choti choti battein hoti hain." ( In big cities small things of this kind happen).
Never did I think I'd be frustrated thinking about my own country, thinking about the plight of people and wondering what we had done to get something of this sort happening to us.
This goes out to all those who've suffered the consequences of the dreadful ordeal we've just faced. Words are not enough. I hope we all act on it, after this at least.