Bombing Ahmedabad - 26/07/08

A series of bomb blast hit Ahmedabad and 45 lay dead with many injured. Just a day after such blasts took place in Bangalore, we are reeling from yet another terrorist attack. As with all bombings and such terrorist attacks, I fail to understand any sense of logic in such acts.
Another thing I fail to understand is the apparent apathy in the West to such events in our parts of the world, in 'the ring of terror' as George Bush Jr very intelligently put it. 9/11, 7/7 - all these make the whole western world rise in outrage and launch a war. But similar acts in India (or rest of the subcontinent) hardly cause a ripple in the White House or 10, Downing Street...among other places.

Leaving those aside, the real challenge of the day is to maintain clam and mourn the dead. Pledge that we, as a nation, will defend the rights of every citizen and condemn the dastardly acts of crime of these spineless characters who are puppets at the hands of some evil brain holed inside some caves - hiding from humanity, hiding from civilisation and hiding from all things that are supposed to make humans better than animals (whether we actually are better, is a different question altogether).

As so many innocent people lay dead or injured, one thing that we should all remember is that the colour of blood is the same and so is the colour of tears.....