|| Satyameva Jayate ||

Dedicated to “Bharat” and “Dharma”

Make no mistake. This is WAR.

In an eerily prescient post a few weeks back, I had written: Our Kurukshetra is approaching fast.

The terrorist attacks in Ahmedabad and Bangalore are merely the latest consequences of a mis-guided, half-hearted approach to tackle terrorism and ignoring the root of the problem - which is the ideology of “Jihad”…and Islamism…This is the ideology that led to 9/11, the massacre of Beslan and numerous attacks since then - a disturbingly large number of them in Bharat.

As long as we don’t recognise this, we will be fighting the wrong enemy (not terrorists but innocents)…on the wrong front (not at the level of ideas, but at the level of physical force)…and with the wrong weapons (not better policing and quick, efficient justice but Dharnas, Bandhs, Satyagraha etc..)

The FIRST STEP though has to be the realisation that this is WAR - nothing less.

At least someone has realised this…

Terror attacks are a war against India…

I salute Shri Modi for having the courage to speak out.

He at least has more spine than the hundreds of others who claim to represent India. But as Radha-ji of Vigil pointed out in an email to me: “His spine is not in question here, it is his understanding of the nature of the threat - jihad…” I think she has hit the nail on its head.

As I had promised to myself, I will say no more on this until such point when I have some idea of how to deal with this menace.

In the meantime, here are some extracts from a letter written by a concerned father* (in the US) to his sons back in 2004. Pl. read and think (emphasis mine).

*** Excerpts begin **

…To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.

Keep Reading…

July 27th, 2008 Posted by B Shantanu | Current Affairs, Global Terrorism, Godhra, Islam & Terrorism, LeT, SIMI etc., Pakistan related, Politics and Governance in India, Politics of Minority Appeasement, Post Independence History, Terrorism in India | 6 comments

Attack in Ahmedabad: Time to say NO MORE

Most of you must have heard about the attack in Ahmedabad by now… (17 blasts; 15 killed, many injured)

I am NOT going to write about it…

It is time to say NO MORE…

For the next few day(s), I am going to put all my energies and thinking in trying to find an an answer…finding a way to stop this madness…finding a way to offer something more than empty words and condolences to the unfortunate…the maimed and the dead…it could have been me - or you…

My feelings at the moment are summed up in the title of this post I wrote more than 2 years ago, just after the blasts in Varanasi… Anger, tears and despair 

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A Roll Call of Terror:

Dec ‘05: New Delhi: Four Years, Two Attacks, One Story 

Mar ‘06: Varanasi: Anger, tears and despair 

Jul ‘06: Mumbai: Blasts? What Blasts?�Yeh to hota hi rahta hai 

Aug ‘07: Hyderabad: Another day, another blast - “Kuch nayee baat batao yaar” 

May ‘08: Jaipur: Jihadi attack in Jaipur? 

Jul ‘08: Bangalore: Blasts in Bangalore…3 killed already 

July 27th, 2008 Posted by B Shantanu | Current Affairs, LeT, SIMI etc., Terrorism in India | 17 comments