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On 13th of May Jaipur, the pink city of India, bathed in blood. In a short span of 12 minutes, 8 Bomb blasts rocked some of the busiest areas of the cities. It was the auspicious day of Tuesday when devotees offered prasad to Lord Hanuman. One of the bombs exploded near a temple thus creating communal tension in the area. On the last count, the blast killed 80 people and injured more than 150. Most of them were Hindus.

It was a clear repetition of previous blasts in Varanasi and Hyderabad.

In midst of this bloodshed and chaos, I am witnessing a very disturbing trend in India. Going by the way people, media and politician at large reacted to this incident; it appears that Terrorism has become a very normal thing for we Indians. Nobody seems to care about how serious this problem has become. In past, at least the whole nation remains in a state of shock after such blasts. However, now it seems to be business as usual and nobody seems to be concerned.

All fingers of the blasts point to foreign hands (Read Islamic fundamentalists groups in India’s neighboring countries). A few times ago, the only suspect was used to be Pakistan. However, now the network of Islamic terrorist has spread to Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh also and all these countries are being used for planning attacks on India.

I once read somewhere that the strategic policy of these terrorist groups is to bleed India by giving it thousands of wounds. Instead of fighting a conventional war with India, killing innocent people through bomb blasts is the preferred strategy of these terrorists. Since there are many traitors in India who work in collusion with these terrorists, it is extremely difficult to trace them in advance and prevent the attacks.

Living in such a situation where nobody knows when and how he can be killed in a terrorist attack, there is nothing an ordinary Indian can do except lamenting the fact that our Government does not have the strong will to tackle this problem. Ministers come, visit the wounded and express their sympathy. Politicians issue criticisms of the terrorist incidents like a ritual and some kind of compensation is issued to the victims. But nobody take the death of innocents as an attack on their country, as a hurt on India’s pride. Nobody take it seriously. Death of innocent on street has become a common thing in India. It is business as usual. During the past 25 years, India has seen Government of many Parties. Almost all political parties of the present have ruled India in one way or other. However, none of them took any interest in eradicating this problem in a significant way.

No wonder if we see more such attacks in the days to come.

Only if we could learn something from Israel…

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