it just another bomb blast

Yet another bomb blast – it’s a seventh major blast since year 2004, the year when UPA came to power. There has not been a single bomb blast in USA since 2001, the year when the World Trade Centre was attacked.The harsh reality is that next only to Iraq, it is in India that more number of civilians have become victims to such ghastly attacks. Even today no terrorist has been convicted or punished in a single case relating to terrorism.Undoubtedly every credit must go to our government and to those people who are in power. And to ourselves too.Tomorrow our Prime Minister will condemn terrorism and will promise few lakhs to nearest relatives of those who are dead; ruling party president will share her sympathies with the dead and will promise fewer such acts in the near future; our home minister will sense the hand of external elements, probably from across the border; our defence minister will defend that all borders are sealed and are safe; and opposition party leader vociferously calls for stern action against the perpetrators of such inhuman crime.
The Nation listens in silence.
And there are billion ears glued to 24X7 news channels, savoring every bit of cacophony of drama enacted by innumerable reporters.
A dumb Nation listens in silence.
And our patriotic newspapers across the country will shout through their headlines that:

‘COMMUNAL HARMONY INTACT – TERRORISTS FAIL AGAIN’

‘STOCK MARKET RESPONDS WELL TO THE BLASTS – BULLS ON RAGE’

‘XYZ MUSLIM ORGANISTION CALLS FOR DENOUNCEMENT OF TERRORISM AND SHOWS SOLIDARITY WITH THE VICTIMS’

‘THE NATION IS AT PEACE’
The fact is The Nation is in pieces. In India there is diversity in unity. This country is immune to all acts of terrorism not because it is united but because of ‘We Do Not Care’ attitude. People from south India will never feel the pain of victims of yesterday’s blast or any other blast. Neither Maharashtrians will feel for Nandigram victims nor will West Bengal respond to Vidharbha farmers.
We have lost our voices.
Why are we not raising our voices against injustice done to our fellow citizens? Why have we become insensitive to every afflictions that are tearing apart our nation – in spite of their glaring presence? Every day we hear and read about rampant corruption, rape, murder, bomb blasts, naxalism, communal tensions, pogroms, farmers’ suicide, ugly politics, and separatist wars but how many of us speak for those victims?
Our insensitive governments, indifferent politicians, unethical bureaucrats, have all looted our country of its wealth, health and harmony in the last six decades, but each one of them goes unpunished. We have cultivated a habit of enjoying these political dramas, but never questioning any of them.
Why our education has not taught us to question the system? Why is this deafening silence from billion oppressed people? Where did we bury our intellectual heritage of Shankara, Basavanna, Vivekananda and Tagore? Why our 600 million youth remain uninspired in spite of Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh and Subhash Chandra Bose’ illuminating examples? Did our freedom meant death of our fighting spirit?
Once Gandhi said, “I want freedom for full expression of my personality”.
Are we really expressing ourselves in spite of Freedom?

Our Incredible India is neither shining nor it is everywhere. For the farmers of Vidharbha, who will soon be listed among endangered species because of their dwindling population due to mass scale suicides, India will never be incredible. For those Dalit and Tribal women who are routinely raped and murdered, India will never shine. For those people who are forcefully evacuated after seizing their land and property, India is nowhere. For those innocent people whose bodies are torn apart in routinely occurring bomb blasts, India is neither a holy land of gods nor a land of miracles. They are dead anyway.
Such incidents in a civilized nation are hard to imagine but surprisingly we have come to live with them and breathe with them.
I do not know if any divine intervention is needed to rekindle the spirit of billion souls to fight for their rightful place in this country,but I do know that as long as we ‘ Do Not Care’, the path to degradation is not far.