Terror has no name, no face, no religion, no creed, no commune, and no emotions. Those who are wont to inspire such horror in their fellow beings have no humanity, no civility, and no sense of propriety. Their mission is disadvantaged by their affiliation. Their fellows from their communes and religions are maligned because of their cowardice. And innocent blood lies on their heads, preventing them entry into the heavens, if there be something such as so.
The blasts on the Samjhauta Express on Monday are the most dastardly and horrendous of crimes that a people can have committed on them. When, despite all odds, they have resolved to forgo their differences, and come together to forge a new future, that such cowards should so try to delay and destroy the path to a peace that this subcontinent sorely needs is nothing short of a horror.
But this is not the time to sit in grief, to just mourn the dead with tears and floral tributes. This is the time to show the terrorists that we are not on this road to move back. That this is not a journey that we have undertaken just to give up when faced with a few boulders. That we will not be defeated by their tactics of hate, that we want to live a new day, a day of peace, a day of happiness. It is a
Those who have conspired to such a horrendous act do not deserve even the most basic of human prerogatives, for by this act, they have abnegated their humanity. Only by punishing the guilty with the highest penalty that the law provides for, can we hope to lay the souls of the departed truly at rest.
6 comments:
the pakis got what they deserved... they bring terrorism to india and now they are the victims of their own acts!
no need to feel sorry. that's justice - karma! :)
Those who have died were innocents, irrespective of their nationality. You play into the hands of those who wish to create chaos in our country by such conjectures.
India must remain committed to peace, and expose Pakistan if it is being hypocritical in its approach. Time will tell that India did the right thing.
How can wisemen like dipti come to such a rapid conclusion about Pak being responsible for the blasts when Indian intelligence agencies are still not sure? such mindless finger pointing is what we ought to avoid.
Phani, Dipti is a wise gal, not a wise man! :P
Vivek, you almost mirror all I feel about this tragedy.
It is perhaps the first time that a terrorist attack has had victims from both India and Pakistan. It tells us that extremists will spare no effort(or lives) to acheive their evil targets.
The road ahead is to combat this menace together with Pakistan. Indians would do well to follow Ronald Reagan's famous phrase "Trust, but verify."
@anon & Dipti - Pakistan may have started this game of death and destruction but we need to look ahead. it is in our short term and long term interests to get rid of extremists. True, pakistan may be playing a dirty game, but this is
a tightrope India will have to walk. In the altered international political circumstances, it makes sense to work with someone who's been the cause of your troubles. As they say - keep your friends close, enemies closer!
@Phaniprasad - point well made. wish more Indians were as thoughful.. :-)
Reddy, Phani, Niraj - I agree. What has happened has happened. I guess doing a senseless, biased post-mortem of such heinous acts has become a norm. Instead of finding the cause, and clamping down on it, we are busy trying to communalise the whole incident!. We need to play the "tame-game" and not the "blame-game"!
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