PRAYER AND CALMNESS
This is about us. India is under attack, we must stick together and pray and have calmness.
The serial blasts in Bangalore and in Ahmedabad over the weekend appear to have been well-orchestrated, to claim innocent lives and unleash panic.It is not everyday that a country faces such a situation. Now that we have been visited be terror, the response must necessarily be one that is tempered with calm and cumalative prayers,despite the understandable disposition to outrage.
Terror strike after terror strike,we are fed with the same story about how each failed the other.There is clearly a systemic fault in our intelligence and security arrangements that exposes the public to dangers that could perhaps be avoided.It is an issue that must no doubt be redressed speedily.But it must be acknowledged that securing a country as vast and densely populated as ours is no easy task.
The pattern of the attacks reveals that terrorists can and will strike not just at our metros but anywhere in our country they think maximum damage — to life and economic activity — can be inflicted. As we have argued,boosting security,even if it means inconveniencing citizens to some measure,is an urgent need.Equally pressing is the need to bring the perpetrators of earlier terror strikes to book.Meanwhile,citizens must stay calm and offer collective prayers,—– wherever possible,in temples,mosques,churches,or gurudwaras,maybe through groups of friends —- in response to such deliberately provocative attacks.Otherwise,we would be playing into the hands of those who are avowed enemies of our way of life and our secular,democratic politics.
our ilander friends have started taking initiative in this direction,and our friend Vibhuti has made a start in this direction,which should be appreciated and followed by others.
