Cold Fire

The sound of a bomb could trigger different reactions for people in the vicinity. Some would fearfully closet themselves, some would rush out and try to figure out, some would call their near and dear ones and some would try to gauge the situation and react. The place where the bomb would explode would be visually of gore, flesh, blood, melted steel, other earthly matter and would be added by sounds of despair.

The scenario is same, whether it's X or Y City or Place. However, we can safely with the help of Theory of Probability calculate the risks and come to a conclusion that whether you like it or not Mumbai is definitely a High Risk Category. Now this is not new since these started in the early nineties.

Its about 4 days now since the last event happened. Print journalists have written or still writing about the event. They are writing about the anger, pain, spirit and resolve of the Mumbaikars. TV journos did zero on the place and asked questions to the common man. Some did not like the intrusion and a particular gentlemen on a talk show almost made it a Delhi vs Mumbai fight!!

The TV programs are still at it. Yesterday I watched We the People where an insipid ex DGP of police made some ridiculous comments on Govt purchasing processes while the Time Out Editor totally missed the point on Mahesh Jethmalani's premise of India learning from USA regarding beefing up preventive security measures internally!! Some said we have to live with it, while some said we should wake up and do something. But overall the atmosphere was of despair except that of the compere's last piece of act, where she questioned this hapless blast victim. People cried, TRP soared. All along NDTV knew that he had a story to say, kept him for the last when there was no time left. A planned climax!!

The politicians as usual have been vomiting out stereo type statements on courage and resolve. A PM takes 24 hours to comment and the Home Minister says there was no Intel and that's not a failure!! Rahul Gandhi's percentage comment came at the wrong time and the best would be to ignore him.

So where does the common man go? Processes are interrelated and the me and you don't understand them. The worst part is that we seem to have all the answers. The ruling party has the answers, the oppositions have them, the celebrities have them, the "civil society" has them, the poets have them, the NGOs have them, the talk shows have them. The common man however has to earn his bread and go on with life. I guess there is no more frustration. There is just this seething anger in the person going out for his daily job, while we wait for the next blast.

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