Resilient Mumbai

have been wanting to make this post for quite a while... have heard and read a lot about the resiliance of mumbaikars in the aftermath of the blasts in the local trains... people were back in the trains the very next day and it was business as usual... i was one of them. but i got my views about that...

i dont think me taking the train was an act of resilinace... resiliance is mistakenly being used for indifference. and i can say this for all the others who have to go to work and earn their paycheck and have no other means of commute.

dont think we realise that there were lives which were lost... of people who had families... dont think we really feel anything till its a close family member who is involved. if any of my folks were on any of them trains... it would not have been easy for me to step into one of them again.

things dont effect us till they really effect one of ours. thats why i say, we have grown indifferent. mumbai wasnt a good choice of target for the terror guys.

all this gets me thinking of another thing which was mentioned by a friend... the 7/11 attempt can be called a failure because of its inability to disrupt life and force people to take regard of their cause... nothin of that happened. will this just urge them to greater, more deadlier acts to get noticed?

if we give in, we lose. if we dont, we make them think of bigger plans. and this is true for every city in the world in their respective wars against their enemy of states. what we should be thinking of is a way we can win instead of giving ourselves a pat in the back for being indifferent. and there definitely is a way... there always is to any game!