Terrorism.. as terrifying as it gets...

26/11/2009... the day India changed the way it looked at terrorism.. my question why so late? why didn't we open our eyes to terrorism when bombs went up in mumbai, delhi, jaipur, ahmedabad, bengaluru, assam, millions of explosions - encounters happening everyday in kashmir, didn't those lives matter to anyone? i am not saying, for me, lives lost in mumbai terror attacks on 26/11 don't mean anything. But the row picked up this importance so late, in fact so very late that it just questions me 'how long do you think this is going to last?'.
Its just the idea that anyone can just walk in and shoot around in the financial capital of India, normal-ism is no more evident.. there is no structure and people cannot digest it. Before 26/11 there was at least a structure, a set pattern and there was some elements of normal-ism associated with these attacks. Quoted on TV : "its normal, people will start blaming each other and soon everything would be as earlier" by a family after the Delhi bomb blasts. Whereas after mumbai terror the mood was different , quoted : "Enough is Enough, War is ON" was the agitation that aroused.
I personally feel the attack was imminent on us.. it was impending on us.. the limits to which we can tolerate with people's life were to be reached.. may be this was the eye opener, this unusual and terrifying attack of mutiny and cruelty is what we were waiting and i hope that all that we have to wait for.
There were days in my life when i thought 'an Israel' is what we should do. But lately i feel 'then whats the difference between us and the terrorists' and such an act i presume will aggravate the issue further and lead to more unhappy Muslims who might resort to terror. I personally feel they should be dealt with in a way which neither so impotent like what India all this while has been doing or as aggressive as Israel. May be there is a solution to this and someone is working towards it. I myself would want to be part of it, so as a necessary step towards taking up responsibility i have decided no matter what i will vote this year and will pursue my friends to follow suit and do the right thing!
My wish is that Kasab, the terrorist, be punished in such a way that tomorrow no one be it muslim or a hindu or a jew or a christian or sikh even think of taking a gun in his hand. He (by he i mean the terrorist who now has a face of a 22 yrs old) should be shown the fate of millions who he made homeless, orphan and crippled and do it to him and his family, just make him realize nothing good is going to happen to him and his family for such acts of SIN and no Quran, No Bible nor Geetha propogate taking lives as a solution to anything under the sky. He should not be allowed to get away at any cost. I guess my frustration took control of me for a while there, but i firmly believe that its time to do the RIGHT THING!
In the name of HUMANITY!

"Right Time for Everything"

Hmmm.. i guess, like most of us do, that there is a right time for everything. Right time for everything - for buying a car, buying a house- making it your home, for saying yes to someone, for walking down the aisle, for taking up higher studies, for taking up a Career.. a career of choice, a right time to own up to fraud, a right time to file for bankruptcy; God i wish there was and i, after a lot of thought into it, feel that its when it was done, yup that was the right time.

But what if we try to look back and judge whether it was the right time to do what was done already.. i guess its unfair to do so.. don't you? how would you ever know 'it could have been better late or may be never' how could one say that.. gut feeling ah? intuition? or may be you feel it could never be so bad, it can't be worse than this? believe me worst is still to come be it this way or another!

I guess its all in the game, take for instance; do you think we were ready for a fiasco like satyam (irony is that they chose a name like 'satyam' do this) after all that has been happening to us? economic melt down, bank ruptsy, job cuts, mumbai terror attacks - in fact all terror attacks before that, satyam fiasco, PwC (surely going down, i hope it does, no space for defaulters) and i am sure many more to come. Does anyone know why is it happening, does anyone have a concrete answer to all the questions raised during this downturn. For a lay man like me (an understatement taking into account my MBA) its hard to comprehend whats spread out all around.
There has been a widespread talk going around this wasn't the right time to graduate from a b-school. Hmmmm highly debatable issue what if i had done it an year earlier? i might be working in satyam fo crying out loud and then..? or if i had taken up MBA a year later may be the recession has not hit the lowest yet.. and it would be hitting same time next year.. whoosh.. then i would think otherwise.. but the fact is i would never know how it would have been since i can never live that life.. can i? now that i have whole-heart taken this life (of mine).
And like in slumdog millionaire... it was from beginning option d: 'Its Written'...

I think, like many out there, i am at this cross roads where i still don't know which road to take up.. did i reach this junction at the right time.. was the signal green earlier or will it be sooner i just have to wait and find out... or fight it out..
God Speed!