I think news channels spread more terror than the terrorists themselves do.I’m fed up of switching on to ndtv/times now/headlines to keep seeing “Breaking News” like Firing in Hyderabad,Hijack Alert at all airports,Explosives found at Hospital,Air-borne terror strike expected and the likes.
I have to go to Chennai in the near future.I’m still contemplating my mode of travel.If its flight,I might get hijacked and find myself on the way to destroying myself by hitting LIC building in Chennai[ Though the chances are slim that terrorists would hijack a one hour flight plane.They may not have time to unpack all their guns and bombs].If I take a train,there may be bombs here and there.I have no desire to burn horrifically to death.
And,with all due respect,I still don’t get it when people say we should try to eliminate terror at the individual level.Like how ??I neither have a bulletproof vest [ sigh.Cannot trust even that in India,can we?] nor the license to shoot.About voting the right people to power,shouldn’t the right people be the candidates ?On one of the talk shows,Raveena Tandon had suggested very articulately that if the people think,they can even change the Constitution to bring in laws to make sure that all politicians who come to power should neither hold a criminal record,nor have been into illegal stuff blah blah.That sounds good.
Other than that,how do I take on terrorists at the individual level? By just taking a pledge,can I change anything ? This question is being asked in all earnestness – How,exactly,can I ,just me,eliminate terror ??
Any answers,anybody ? I’m willing to go the extra mile.I want my little one to be safe.I don’t want to her just jump the wagon and leave the country.I want her to grow up here.And love it.
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