But I know better. Once this is over, people will remember for a few days and they will forget. We will hear stupid things like 'the spirit of Mumbai' and 'Mumbai will bounce back' and rubbish like that. Why can't people understand that the common man doesn't have a choice. The common man can't stay locked up in his house all day long. He can't have police protection 24x7. He can't go live in some other city till he feels like coming back.
When the bomb blasts happened on 11th July 2006, I wrote a blogpost and said
The worse part about this blast will be that, Mumbaikars will become survivors and saviors and after 2 days life will be back to normal - and everyone will sing praises about how great the spirit of Mumbai is and nothing will be done to stop this happening again and again and again. I really wish the people of this city would stop accepting these incidents as 'things that just happen' or things that you can predict and prevent.
And unfortunately I feel the same will happen again. People will just go back to their routine and very soon forget this incident.
I also realized that more than 2 years ago I also wrote that "we should have a better crisis management plan, we should have better intelligence, we should have harsher punishments, we should demand more accountability". I will change that line today to say that we NEED to have better crisis management infrastructure, more accountability on our government and a better way of dealing with terrorists we capture.
It's tragic how history repeats itself and how we never seem to learn.
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