Mumbai

The attacks in Mumbai.....I have nothing new to say about this. The events have rendered me speechless along with the rest of India. There is a fire inside me, consuming me, asking me what I am doing about this. The answer is "nothing". What can I do? I am here in far-off USA. But that is not really true. There must be something I can do.

The pictures and videos I see rip my heart out. How can this happen in my India? Multiple attacks in just one year? How did we let it come to this?

Did the concerned departments not act on the information they received? There must have been at least one person among all the millions living in Mumbai who noticed these terrorists and thought "hmmmm...something is off". I can't believe that there was no one. If only someone took enough responsibility to alert the police. If not all, at least a few lives could have been saved.

Many questions arise......Is it an intelligence failure? Is it the failure of the Navy? Is it a failure of the hotel security? There is no blame game to be played here. It is a failure of the Indian system as a whole. And the reason for it, all of us are so caught up in just "surviving life" not just "living life".

How pitiful.....