mera bharat mahaan

First of all, my condolences to great heroes of my country who died fighting heroically with coward terrorists. May their soul rest in peace.
Who is responsible: The first thing that comes to minds of every Indian on the “Mumbai Siege Incident” are shocked and terrified. After the long 60 hour battle with coward terrorists, we- the people, started blaming government for the failure to prevent attacks. Isn’t it “we” who elected the representatives to form the government. So does this mean we, the people, are to be blamed for the ghastly incident?
In my “personal” opinion (without offending anyone else opinions) I feel its ‘us’ who are responsible for not preventing the incident. We elect officials who run our government who are incapable of protecting our country. From the newspaper articles it seems that the equipment used by Army, NSG was outdated to confront with Terrorists. (I have outmost respect to army, navy, police, NSG personnel who defended my country. So please don’t get my opinions wrong.) But who takes the decision to buy the equipment. Again its our own elected representatives who are appointed as minister’s due to nepotism rather then their individual ability.
Analyze This: Let’s analyze the whole incident. The total numbers of terrorists involved in the operation were, according to news sources, 10. They are believed to come via sea route to Mumbai. They are between ages 21-30, well trained in using ammunitions and explosives. Let’s connect the loops now.
Coming via the sea route should have taken atleast 8-10 hours in sea. This means there is a very good reason to believe that they are prone to dehydration.
That basically means the energy levels are less, unless they are on some “military” medication. Where did they get this “military” medication from?
The two terrorists who killed Hemanat Karkare, Vijay Kalaskar, Ashok Kamte are according to the story of the constable, the only survivor, were hiding behind a tree and shot the officers and other constables using AK 47. How did the terrorists know that the officers were coming in that route. Why were they hiding behind the tree which was exactly in the route? In a big city like Mumbai, no one noticed two terrorists hiding behind tree with AK 47’s.
The terrorists fought continuously for about 60 hours. Taking into account the number of terrorists in Taj hotel were 3-4, how did they manage to fight in that tremendous pressure without sleep. How were they able to control hostages, burn buildings, fight our elite NSG commandos at the same time?
Even if the terrorists had complete maps of hotels and locations how were they so successful in locating targets in those pressure situations.
All these means without internal help its highly impossible to make this happen.
Learn from past mistakes: Every time there is a bomb blast in India we blame Pakistan’s ISI. But after a month or so no one really talks about it. Why are we forgetting incidents that tear our country’s sovereignty? Why don’t we come with proofs of Pakistan’s involvement before international community and prove their involvement. (In the past there were incidents where we were able to successfully prove Pakistan’s involvement with limited proof, but to no avail). May it be train bombings, parliament attacks, Mumbai siege I feel my “bharathamaata” has seen enough and its time we need answers. By answers I mean not begging other countries to give the culprits. They should be hunted and killed, when we know where they are hiding.
Mera Bharat Mahaan: One thing sure to feel proud is the way Mumbai city rebounded after the incidents. The opening of Leopold’s café in less than 3 days after the incident shows the courage and determination we Indians have.
No Terrorist can decide the way we live in our country. There were terrorists in the past centuries like Ghazni, Babar who plundered our most sacred temples and wealth. All of them died. But my India stands today, withstanding all the evil acts with determination and courage.
We have to see the issue of terrorism as related to particular people’s ideology rather than relate it to a religion. India belongs to every Indian who pledges allegiance to our country and flag. No matter Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh… as long as we bow down before Bharathmaata we are all sons of India.
What needs to be done: We need to elect representatives who will think about our country’s interest rather than party interest. We need to question our representatives when they fail to protect us. We need to name the streets against the great heroes who died fighting in the battle as a respect to their sacrifice for our country. We need have young leaders who have overall vision of the present global impact we as Indians have in the world. We need to have leaders who will guide us in the right direction of nationalism. We need to elect representatives who will teach us the right meaning of “Jai Hind”.
In this hour of crisis let all Indians stand for one cause. “FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM”.

Jai Hind.
Suresh Matta
chilldesi@gmail.com