The 26/11 Mumbai Cacophony

It’s been two weeks but still the wrath of  terror attacks on the Mumbai hasn’t lowered , thanks to indian media and the politics.

Every time when such a terrorist attack happens , there is a huge uproar with the public and government faces extreme criticism with patriotic fervor reaching incredible levels and jai maatha ki being the buzz word.

No doubt , the attacks are disturbing and impacted the whole nation to a great extent. The flavor of terror did strike me hard watching the news channels , those hard to believe heart stopping shellings and gory blood stains, were indeed awful.

A grand salaam to all those brave souls , the martyrs ,police men , NSG commandos , marcos , hotel staffs and the south african commandos and to each and every one of them , with out whom , a lot of lives would have vanished with out a trace.

As an aftermath of the terror strikes , we now witness the usual political stunts and media running frenzied behind literally everything to catch hold of their TRP’s aloft.

This attack has some significant impact on the politics being played across the country . Most of the time , it is only the common man who gets badly affected by these assaults – normally these happen on the roads , trains and other places where the common man moves often . Hence the slack govt hasn’t cared enough to take stringent actions, but this time , the target is on the elite section of the country . Now this should be a big head ache to the government for all the rich bell weather are completely outraged and this could strain the politicians relation with them .The Tatas and the Oberois and all of them .Hence we could find some significant actions and security increased across the country.

Though many famous people like NRN has commented that the coverage of these attacks were the finest piece of journalism in this decade , famous tamil writer Gnani has an entirely different opinion about the way the news channel and politics haven taken these .Read about it here .

Instead of continuing with the blame game , we need to move on -Enough is Enough. We need to extract the learnings from these and convert them as action items and try to implement them soon.

Be more vigil and have better disaster recovery plans. There was certainly some lapses in the way operations were carried out , there was no co-operation between the different units that was part of this rescue operation . Each acted on its own and no one was able to gain the holistic picture of the situation and sped forces in sync with the events unfolding .

It’s true , our country hasn’t faced such an unfortunate event that the combined efforts were not diligent.We need to formulate better plans and be more prepared to handle such tragic issues.

This moment , we are united and have expressed solidarity . Let’s learn from this crisis and become double stronger and declare our war against terror in all forms .

Let us believe in a positive change.