Monday, August 27, 2007

BLASTING US OUT OF COMPLACENCY

THE TWIN BLASTS

Hyderabad has not seen like this before- with two blasts taking the lives of forty innocent people on Saturday night. It was one of the deadliest incident which left everyone shocked at the magnitude and the cruelty of the act. One cannot imagine the sort of heartless people who thought of nothing about killing innocent youth and kids.

But Hyderabad will never be the same again. Already people are scared of going out to eat or enjoy a movie. All along everyone thought that such incidents take place in other places but not in Hyderabad. Now that it has taken place here people are beginning to get nervous and anxious. Yesterday shopping malls, film theatres and other popular eateries shut their doors and turned away customers. I saw this happen at the Spencer shopping Mall at Musheerabad and also at MPM mall at Abids. Even the popular Sunday book bazaar at Abids wore a deserted look as only a handful of the seller put up stocks, albeit a few books, for sale.

The bomb blasts hopefully will shake us out of our complacency. For too long we have bothered only about enjoying ourselves leaving the responsibility of protecting us to the police and security agencies. But now the time has come for us to watch out before venturing anywhere. People will start looking under seats in theaters and hotels and will also be alert for suspicious objects and people. It is high time we started taking steps towards preventing such incidents from happening again.

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