I think Mumbai’s resilience is its biggest enemy. And life comes to normal forgetting the rough times in minutes. We, the people of Mumbai, are living like machines, machines that only know to add value to the balance sheets of the companies that we work for, and living for the next tragedy to strike us. We live to die another day.
Yesterday more than 125 people died and around 800 people got injured. For what? Today we are back to work as in Mumbai its business as usual, going to offices with our iPods and phones plugged in our ears as if nothing happened.
No Mumbai, it’s not business as usual. It’s time to introspect. It’s time to do things that will not make us helpless sufferers in the future. Let us look at steps that will secure our futures and the futures of our loved ones.
Come on Mumbai. Wake up, before the next tragedy hits us. Wake up. Please.
loiswakeman
I was thinking of my Indian friends in Blogland when I watched the news last night. I imagine you must be feeling some of the shock that Britons felt when we had our terror attacks in London.
As you say, time to think deeply about what needs to be done - and also to hope that political over-reaction doesn't do the terrorists job for them by curtailing freedom overmuch.