WHOM ARE WE TRYING TO FOOL? WE AREN'T 1 BIT RESILIENT.. WE'RE JUST NOT BOTHERED, WAITING TO BE BLOWN APART

One more blast and we've got the intelligent Bangalorean reiterating that we're resilient and won't be bothered by such cowardly acts. We almost claim victory by 'not being scared'. Agreed scaring us is the prime aim of terrorism in general. But to complete the whole story.. We ain't scared, that is, until we or someone we love is blown away, in one of these blasts which we, by our own (sometimes proudly) admitted resilience, have accepted to be a norm of life in India. Loose a limb in this blast and you'll be scared for the rest of your sad life.. but if the blast didn't let Venkat Babu complete his snack at Gokul Chat... hmm.. no I'm not scared, I'm 'resiliently' NOT BOTHERED! By the way, i really can't expect a lot many people to remember Gokul Chat.. After all we're so proudly amnesiatic about terrorist attacks on our nation, we're so not bothered when Indian lives are lost. This is the absolute and grim reality of our public perception which we're dubious enough to brand as the "never say die spirit" of the Mumbaikar and the "resilience" of the Bangalorean.

Fine, so we can't be not bothered.. Done- I'm angry at all these attacks, matched in their regularity only by the fall of wickets in the Indian batting lineup. So what do I do? Cancel my plan t hit Elevate tonight? No! I could start by at least cutting the crap about not being bothered. I could believe that collectively we could all act to make terrorist attacks at least a rarity if not history. We could agree that we and our indifference to the whole scenario has some part to play in today's blast. We could all express our opinion in ways even more effective than writups or blogs like these.. Anything that would make national security an issue.. a "Chunaavi Muddaa".

Lets face it.. We as public find a lot of issues more important than National Security. This, in an amazing organic democracy like ours has translated into a pathetic and shamefully reactive international/security policy rather than a proactive one, in existence, I would say, ever since the days of Nehru (remember the sweet memories of the crushing defeat to Mao?- i wasn't even born then). We the junta where no one is aam have to take strong steps towards spreading awareness that National Security and a more aggressive international policy are the most alarming national needs to be addressed by us, the Nation, today. This threat today is as dangerous from China as eternal it has been from the fundamentalist forces. Sadly, both these threats are increasingly finding agents in Indians (Bangalore attack could be a made in India). I find it prudent to quote Chidambaram here.. "There are some people in the country who do not want India to catch up with China. They do not want India to be ahead of China,". I do not wish to get diverted, but you see Naxals are as big a threat to Indian lives as the fundamentalist terrorist groups. Yes we are being soft on all anti Indian elements.. But we are a democracy and we can today, change this by putting the right issues in perspective. But for that to happen we first have to be... yeah.. BOTHERED!