Few months back there was a news item in the local dairy. A youth was caught with some explosives in Ponda.... hold on... not RDX neither any other high impact chemical mixture. It was much lower impact explosives, something to the extent of what we blow off during festivities. But never the less it hogged much media coverage for days and weeks together; more so because of the purpose the explosives were supposed to be used. Naah, once again you are wrong. It wasn’t to be blown in crowded places and cause substantial loss of life and property neither was it to cause panic or create communal tensions. It was actually to kill wild boars.
Well, however the hype created by the wild life activists made it sure that the protagonists did hog limelight for quiet few days to come.
However, is that so with human life in India? Bombs have been exploding in the expanse of this country with such a frequency that long back we have lost the count of the number, leave alone the number of victims. Has human life become so cheap that bomb explosion and resulting casualties have not been creating any impact on the common man? People have started to skip reading such news in the newspaper; now that there have aroused some kind of regularity and similarity in such news.
From the mails to claim responsibility to the warnings sent out from the Home ministry. From the blame-game of the intelligence agencies to the blaming of our neighbours. The convening of cabinet ministry to assess the situation and the opposition party going gung-ho on a new anti-terror law. The same claims by the police to have identified the perpetrators and the same top-of-the voice and “masala”fied reporting of the so called “eye witness” in the glare of the video-cameras and the TV reporters. Same routine press conference by the DGP of the area and the same old pleas by the defendants. Will any thing change?
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