It was a usual week night for me.
Now my schedule revolves around our new born son's need to feed and change.
I spent the day watching Ind vs Eng ODI in Cuttack and then surfed to Raising Helen.
The movie had sub titles so I could watch it without any sound.
12 in the night my best friend smsd me - Have you seen the news? I called her - What news? She said firing in South Mumbai - Leopold and all.
Through the news channels I came to know about the mayhem that was ensuing.
I woke my husband and told him what is happening. His office is in South Mumbai.
It is shocking to see the events over the entire night while feeding and changing diapers.
One moment you see the ATS chief live on TV and next moment it is flashed that he has become a "shahid". Next day a cousin mentions about Karamvir Kang and his loss. Soon we come to know that he was a batchmate of one of our brother in law and some acquaintances' cousin. Suddenly these are not nameless people but people you know somehow.
What are we headed for? How many more lives have to be slaughtered before the government does something constructive? We need concrete plans and swift execution not the usual speeches that we have been seeing of Manmohan Singh and Shivraj Patil.
If we still dont wake up then many more Taj, Oberoi, Nariman House will happen and I dread to say that it could be any of us.
Wake up India!!!
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