A different nature of post but it’s tough to continue remaining silent.

Another round of serial blasts in Delhi – human blood and flesh on the streets, severed limbs, wailing women. Strong condemnation from the PM and the powers that be. “It’s a dastardly act”, yeah, so insightful. “The perpetrators will not be spared”, yeah right. Can we ask Mr Prime Minister which jail are the perpetrators of the earlier bomb blasts being punished in.

The pattern is so predictable, it’s sickening. People die, PM whimpers a condemnation and then everything goes back to normal. Till we have another set of serial blasts.

And then, to add insult to the injury, they talk about the “Spirit of Delhi (or Mumbai or Ahmedabad or Bangalore or Jaipur)”. The truth of the spirit is that people have no choice but to resume their normal activities to earn their livelihood, get by and complete their share of their personal and professional obligations, duties and responsibilities. They have no other option. If I have a business meeting in Cannaught Place, I have to go there, knowing fully well that if the terrorists have decided it to be the day of mayhem, I could be one of the casualties. It’s not spirit, it’s helplessness.

Whether you like Bush’s policies or not, whether you like America or not, you have to agree that the cavemen have not been able to do anything on American soil ever since 9/11. More than a couple lessons to be learnt on how to tackle homeland security.

Compare this with India, we are probably the only country which does not have an anti terror law despite being one of the top most victims of terrorism. Not just that, the government fiercely opposes any proposal to bring in any such laws – the center’s refusal to ok Gujarat anti terror law a very recent example.

Several prominent members of the PM’s cabinet actively support the organization everybody knows to be behind these acts of terror, “It’s a cultural organization”. Correct. Now will you, Mr Minister, care enough to explain what kind of culture espouses exploding bombs in crowded places? I guess not because people who get killed and will get killed in the blasts to come will never be of your kin.

The nuclear deal is done. The surging economy, the India miracle, superpower by 2020 – a whole lot of you-know-what. No one is going to respect us as a country if we cannot protect our people, if we continue being a corpse collector whether it is the embassy in Kabul or markets in Delhi or temples in Jaipur. We can never be a a super power as long as it is so ridiculously easy to kill us.

Another word often bandied about whenever these blasts happen is “the people’s resilience”. Resilience, my friend, is to get up when hit and reply in the same coin. Resilience is not getting hit again and again and wiping the blood only to be bloodied again. Resilience is not picking one tooth from the road only to have another one punched out.

Platitudes don’t help Mr Singh, action does. Tough action.

Real people are dying here. Families are being destroyed. Kids’ futures are being ruined. Are you going to wait till eternity to do something apart from throwing banalities? Or is it that our worst fears are true, these deaths don’t matter to you, these people don’t count?