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Serial Blasts Rock Varanasi, 12 dead
It was another evening in IIMK, busy doing asignments, Chatting with friends, when this news article was sent across by one of my batchmates.Had it been any other city, the news would have gone largely unnoticed or at the max I would have followed the link to get the details of how it happened when it happened, and gone along with my work. But as with other people, since this place is so close to my heart, having been out of BHU just a year ago, the news carried immeasurable significance. On further enquiry, I found that the blasts had occurred at sankatmochan and Cantt, while shivganga express was about to leave.

My mind flashed back to exactly the same date a year earlier when I had cleared my CAT examination and was traveling to Delhi for my IIMK interview and would have been boarding the train when the blast occurred. If u have been to snaktmochan mandir on Tuesday, you would be aware of the crowd that flocks the temple on this day. And to target this place on such an occasion can at best be described as mental sickness. To whichever religion, outfit the people belong to, I cannot imagine how homicide can be planned so meticulously.

This incident again has raised serious issues about our internal security, the way it is being handled by the government. But more than that it brings to fore the mental status of our society. After the Delhi or for that matter the London bomb blasts, the media had praised the people in both the cities for going on with normal business just a day after the blasts. But I cannot determine whether this is courage or helplessness. What were the media expecting, people would sit back at home assuming that it was not safe to go out into the crowded buses and trains. I beg to differ, the venturing out of people is somewhere related to the failure of the internal belief that they are safe.

Such incidents have now become an imminent part of our lives and hence people really don't care about it unless it happens to their near and dear ones. They feel the best thing they can do is to carry on with their normal business and not to make a fuss out of the whole incident because it won't make any difference to anyone in the government or for that matter to the perverted minds that carry out such attacks. Hence why waste a day's living for a cause about which they can do nothing. And I cannot see the situation changing in the near future. The pace at which our country has grown both in developmental terms, population wise, it is nearly impossible to provide security cover at each location. And the people also seem to have resigned to this fate….