United we stand

Two recent events in India have really disturbed me a lot - The Mumbai blasts on 11th July and blockade of blog-sites ( will write about this later ).

Mumbai is one of most busiest cities in the world and equally dense. The synchronous bombing is just a cowardliness the most despicable act.

I was really surprised at the frankness in Pakistan's president Musharaff's speech.

"The people and the Government of Pakistan and I are with you"

"To say that the peace and dialogue process should be postponed, or stopped because of the Mumbai attacks is to hand a victory to the terrorists. This is exactly what [the terrorists] want, that the peace process and the normalization process be stopped."

"If you give us proof, evidence, we will fully co-operate with you in the investigations. We are fully with you in tracking down whoever carried out this attack and caused so much damage to you"

Very powerful words. If he is being honest, I really salute the man. These words from an unlikely source should be appreciated.

At the same time, from any Indian citizen's stand-point, its really hard to see the truth and sympathy behind these words, due to the decades of conflicting Pakistan. How can one trust ?

Back to Mumbai blasts, 2 sub-events spiraled the thought process in me,as they really struck home.

1. My best friend was going to travel to their neighboring state and was concerned about traveling in a train, as they all happened in a train. They did travel and with a strong and firm decision to do so.
2. We had a mishap in our family and my dad wasn't able to attend his sibling's final rituals' as there wasn't a way to reach them. Train services were badly hit.

I now realize that there are times, things doesn't come and hit you, until they happen really close to you. It was and still is very hard for me to understand this. Again and again I ask myself, what did my friend do, what did my family do ?

My friend was been forced to think over her plans, because "somebody" thought it'd be better to kill innocent people ?!

How can anyone console my father, when his own sibling's funeral, was practically isolated, with her siblings unable to reach her ? What did they all do ?

What did all those people, who were going to work, kids going to school, people doing their own business do ?

As a terrorist you don't have the right to control other lives, others decisions, when you don't have control of yous, due to your actions and idelogies.

Violence is NOT a solution never will be, doesn't matter at any level. If you can't even show up your face, voice your opinion in an open forum, stand up for your rights and fight for it, thro' "human" means, you don't deserve to call yourself an human being, a freedom-fighter, a liberator. You don't deserve to even fight what you're fighting for!

Its an irony that India is a country which got its independence thro' non-violence.
Gandhi never advocated to blow up British establishments and system to attain freedom.

Believe me, if he were to order that, in the wildest of anyone's imagination, the entire nation would've signed up for that and could've toasted the British possibly 100's of times.

But he was the man, who believed not only in non-violence, but also that there is "always" a solution by working in a frame-work, which involves conversations, debates, negotiations, systematic processes et al. But none of those, in any form or manner, supported violence.

To all those ruthless killers : think in your heart. What have you achieved by inflicting fear ? You loath yourself having succeeded in your so called 'operation', but look back and you will see that this nation shall stand united, much more than before. You can blow up all of our establishments and kill many more, but the life you live in today looking over your shoulder always is what you should be feel bad about. While we stand proud that we stand for each other and we stand up against people like you, more during these kind of heinous acts.

You've attained nothing but even more hatred at the very plight you think you're fighting for. Above all the irreparable bereavement and deepest wounds, India stands up again and absolute in its resolve.

Over time, you shall run away from the legal system, stay away in shadows and hide in caves and plan more and more attacks. It just makes you even more sick and how shady you life is and in no way, would give you what you dream about, getting by murdering innocence lives. Equally, you could think that you've dodged the bullet, but remember, in god's books, the checks-n-balances "always" happens and you'll be held accountable. Its that burden you carry to yourself, until then. We have no feeling what so ever except we just pity you and your state of life.

These events has made us much more stronger in not only holding ourselves together, but be much more united to say "bring it on" !