Maintaining composure is a difficult task today

At this time, when the battle is over in Mumbai(but the war is on), maintaining composure is the most difficult task. Live images of bullet ridden bodies, blood ridden floors and fire lit Taj are making Indians agonised.
“Last night I dreamt of India attacking Pakistan,” Mahesh Joshi, my co-walker during my evening walk told me last evening. “And I saw the entire Pakistan ravaged into pieces. Americans helped and Russia also chipped in from Afghanistan side,” he added.
I gazed at him with disbelief. Not that I did not apprehend what he said but I could not gauge the minute details he went into, in his sub-conscious mind.
But conscious minds in India are getting restless. They want an answer to this ongoing series of silly attacks without great motives. The cowardly acts, carried under the garb of religion, makes one wonder where in India are you safe?
What is more alarming is that the security forces are getting agitated and are at a loss on how to respond to it. Needless killing of innocent civilians and their own bosses have made them hard core policemen. They will not leave any stone unturned to catch hold of perpetrators and in the process, hundreds of innocent people. This is the price people have to pay when they play with religion.
To compound this, we have politicians – at their peak of life, at the edge of career – waiting like a hawk to prey in. Otherwise, how can you explain Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi hopping into Mumbai when the battle was on?
Not only that he posed for cameras – asking some bystanders to move out of the focus so that his terror struck face with a hand on his left cheek – is visible to the national media, but he also convened a press briefing taking a dig at PM speech. Nothing can be more horrible than cashing in on the sentiments of innocent people. He can become a champion of terrorism. But he never imagined that a hard core BJP supporters like Mahesh Joshi would turn against him for this act of cheap publicity.
“That was uncalled for,” he said at the end of the walk. “He had no business to be there when Gujarat itself was given alert on a possible infiltration,” he fumed as we passed through the residence of convener of BJP Gujarat legal cell – an advocate with four luxury cars parked outside his home and one inside.
There is not much any one can do. The party in power can vouch to end terrorism and warn the neigubouring countries of dire consequences, the party in opposition can blame the government, issue ads in newspapers on the same day of the attack and then wait for their turn to come to power and do the same what the ruling party did, policemen can watch helplessly at the events unfolding or losing their lives to bullets, army can wait for the orders to march and the citizens can wait to see when their end comes.
There is not much any one can do because the planning is done in a lawless country which breeds fanatics. It is carried out in a country with much more fanatic feeling but a peaceful mind. Intelligence agencies have lost all contacts with possible informers because people like Narendra Modi have detached them in one form or the other without actually knowing what harm they are doing to the country.
Media will highlight their plight for a few days and will forget everything once some other breaking news happens. A nation moved by the sacrifices of men in uniform and innocent people will remember them for a few days. They can only be mute spectators. After all we are asses called masses.