Black Saturday...September the 13th...

Looking at the morning newspapers today drowns me in immense feeling of despair and helplessness ……The photographs in the newspaper repetitively remind me that the probability of me being there is even…Even I could have been there… I am not fearful of death that “O My God I would have died “ ….but have extreme empathy for those who have died or have been injured or have lost someone… after all they are my fellow beings…youngsters like me …who just thought of spending the evening ; strolling in Connaught place or shopping in Karol Bagh or GK –M block market..

Connaught place—umm the heart of New Delhi…With skyscraper buildings and head offices for majority of corporations….a metro station which connects to two more metro lines…and beautiful park constructed over it….ample grass(grass is no more green today; it has turned red!)…open air theatre which holds live concerts sometimes…nice water fountains to add beauty to the place…Central park is the pride of any delhite…
My college being close to this place …We have taken umpteenth rounds to this place….any chance to bunk classes…”chal yaar CP chalte hain “…and from CP we would either head towards Janpath—the famous market for street smart people…. Or to Palika—the underground air-conditioned market for all pirated and genuine computer and electronics related stuff…we would munch at nirula’s; Mc donalds; keventer’s; …or any place in CP (CP houses almost all brands and non-brands as well) …and we would simply lie around in Central park…The fact that these areas which you visit ( without giving a second thought) are so vulnerable against a group of people who believe in certain ideologies…makes me wonder what will happen in near future…

Although I am sure that we will fight it together…the show will go on… Men who want to plant fear in us will not be able to succeed…it’s not that people will stop visiting these places…I am sure things will return to normalcy soon… but there are few of us who have paid the cost for this… I terribly feel sad for them … I really wonder what this senseless killing of people means to them…what purpose they achieve by creating terror amongst fellow human beings…
In fact I really question their humane attitude…what right do they reserve to take somebody’s life….if they could not contribute to a person’s living, what right do they have to end it…I mean it’s simply irrational and unthinkable…If you cannot give life then you cannot take it…Would they come forward to adopt the orphans whose parents have given the sacrifice for their “cause”.

I simply don’t understand the fact that if they have questions and objections with the government why the hell they don’t fight with the govt. …why the price has to be paid by some 8 year old boy who will live with this trauma for entire life?
All this sounds heavy naa…. It is …for we have become so habitual of living in this constant terror that it is no more a shock to read about blasts and killings…we have grown a thick skin which does not allow the sensitivities of a human being to permeate through…
Let peace be bestowed upon those who have been at the unfortunate end of this incident…