Kya kahen...

I don't know if I should be surprised or pleased that terrorism in India still makes news anywhere and the fact that US channels actually decided that non-Americans being killed anywhere can also be an act of terror?

I am not able to think beyond the grief of the people of Mumbai who are used again and again and again by politicians like Raj Thakre or terrorists to catch the attention of our useless government. Why do we keep sleeping till the time it becomes impossible to sleep in peace?
Why do we keep fighting over our religions/social divides until someone from across the border makes us aware that for the world outside we ARE one and would die together as 'Indians' - not as mumbaiakars, north, east or south Indians; Or as a rich or a poor Indian.

I am sad at my own helplessness to make the outside world understand what plagues my country; Do I even understand completely what plagues my country? Maybe. Maybe not.
As a layman, I only know that it hurts when people get killed from bullets coming out of a police cab, that it hurts when the financial capital of my country and one of the most peaceful cities in the world flashes on my TV screen in the US as a place of terror and mayhem, that it hurts to think of the many friends who are sitting on an active volcano, that tomorrow it could be my own small Indian town that becomes the target, that the policeman who got killed yesterday fighting against those heartless, brainwashed beasts could as well have been my own father, that the woman running for cover on VT station could have been my own mother or sister, that every single one who died yesterday was a family man/woman and many lives would never be the same again.

When would an Indian life mean anything to the world? How many more need to die to tell our government that neighbors don't always make good friends? How many more Indians need die before we are able to name a bloody neighbor a terrorist state or get the rich ones to STOP gifting the guns to the terrorists to kill our people? When would politicians stop being so bloody selfish for votes and do nothing and stop supporting groups like SIMI so innocents don't get killed?

Oh but let's not break out hearts over it now. Thank god we are in the US. Let's get ready for the thanksgiving party tonight. 'coz India mein to aisa hota rahta hai....