OK! So far I have kept quiet on this entire episode that happened and I am sure that this one is going to stretch enough to give Saans Bahu a run for its money.  By saying “kept quiet”, I meant that I really haven’t voiced my opinion anywhere, even in the circle of people whom I meet every day or with my dad and brother, or even while being in the midst of people who were discussing this incident and voicing their expert opinions on how India should ape Uncle Sam and try obliterate the neighbor off the face of this planet we call “Home”. I am not going to spend time writing obituaries for the victims and praising the branded heroes of this deadly reality show for which there is no end, unless there is an administration which has the steel balls to accept the facts and extend atleast an Olive twig.

The news of the carnage never surprised me. Such attacks were always imminent as long as there was animosity between communities and as long as we have misplaced our economic priorities. And these socio-economic factors that stemmed into geo-political confrontation, was showcased to the world in the form of prime-time terrorism branded by the date. This has also given us the unique distinction of, perhaps, the only third world country which can unabashedly ape the west to cash in on the support for any sort of human-induced-human-tragedies.

Are terrorists born? Better question would be who is a terrorist? Is one man’s struggle is another’s terror? Why is it that a person is singled out at the airport security just because they have tonsured their head and wears a goatee? Why is it that one is questioned at the airport or any other place because of their name is an Abdul or Rahim? Why is that people make it a point to mention that one is a Moslem, but no one mentions if a person is a Christian or a Hindu? Why is that when a Moslem commits a crime, they are questioned as though they committed treason while others are just questioned?

The question is not whether what happened is right or wrong. It is sad and unquestionably wrong. The question is why is it happening and what have we done for this to happen. The obnoxious media in the names of NDTV or CNN-IBN or Times Now, all of whom gloat at playing a part in bringing justice to the death of a bar-girl, fall short of analyzing this. The Aranb Goswamys, the Rajdeep Sardesias, the Barkha Dutts and the Zakka Jacobs find themselves stuck in a purposeful memory coop and drum up jingoistic adaptations of hearsays as news. Whom are we doing any good? Is the Moslem bashing going to bring us any good, apart from fueling further attacks on our soil, which in turn helps the Aranb Goswamys, the Rajdeep Sardesias, the Barkha Dutts and the Zakka Jacobs in belting up further rhetoric and increasing their TRPs.

Where is the compassion?

Or is that a word that is to be pressed between the cold pages of the old dictionary laying the corner of the cupboard for rest of eternity?
The more we sideline a community through obfuscation of facts and demoralizing them through mental and physical torture the more they lose their patience. And when one finds their back on the wall, there is only one way to go. All we have to do is go back into the history of our country for about a century? What happened then was exactly what is happening now. When we realized that we were a oppressed lot, we said “enough is enough” and fought for our independence.

And what is it about the luxury Hotels being the epicenter of attention to blood? Wasn't any blood spilt on the streets and on the crowded railway station. How much did we here about that? Oh! Those were the blood of the commoners.

So when NDTV came out with the title, “enough is enough”, I thought, probably that’s what the killers though too! And thats exactly what I am thinking and everyone else. But probably for different reasons.

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