Arise, awake, and stop not ...

After all the hiatus, finally the country is coming to terms and is back to normalcy. No points for guessing, I am talking about “The Mumbai Carnage”. In my thoughtful subconscious mind, I asked myself why it happened in the first place. Was it just an intelligence failure or another failure at our end? Yes, “our”, of course including me, even if I am sitting long way from the financial capital of the country. Ask me the same question in public somewhere in Gateway of India, my answer will be different. Although I thoroughly understand “Security is personal”, I will blame everybody else except me, starting from police to politician, and how can I forget the neighboring country.
If you have ever commuted by public transportation, you may find writing on the wall, “you are responsible for your belongings”. Does that also include “Life”? May be, isn’t life my own belonging? I believe, I have to explain this one with simple examples relating to day to day life. Why do we wear helmet while driving? If we all follow the road rules properly without failure do you think we will ever have to wear helmet? I have another example for those who could not relate themselves from the previous example, do we leave our entry gates and doors of our houses unlocked, even if we have 24/7 security beside the gate? By saying all this I am not trying to save the public servants who are responsible for security of Republic of India and people residing within. More so, when I religiously pay my taxes year after year (which is used for country’s development including security). And at the same time, I notice poor police to public ratio, which stands at around 1000 persons/police. Since now I am sympathetic towards the police, let me pick the next one from my blame list, politicians. We are a democratic country, how does a politician comes to power? I presume the answer is hidden well within the question, irrelevant of the fact whether I practice my voting right.
I am stuck, the last and only option in my blame list is the neighboring country, where I have never been, neither am I aware of their culture. Population of India is 1,147,995,904 (more than 1.14 billion). Disclaimer: By the time you read, figures are bound to change. How is it possible that an alien intrudes our country without detection? There has to be at least one out of such a humongous count, who must have noticed anti social elements entering through, so called porous border. That suggest we are careless and not so cautious about unfamiliar events happening around us. Unfortunately we are surrounded by not so prosperous countries than us and such tales of horror will keep occurring till they follow the path to development (not only defense). Investigations have showed root cause of such crime, most of the time is meager sum of money. So, it is more important that we remain vigilant and bring out the little policeman within us and question things as and when it is happening, rather than sitting like a duck expecting we will not be harmed, whereas the fact is, someone from my own society, country will be harmed. Being a student of management (by virtue of my job) I have understood, this incidence has placed us in reactive mode (fire fighting) because we were not proactive in estimating the loss that will be caused if we do not plan properly.
With faith in almighty, I hope such gruesome incidence will not be repeated anywhere, anywhere in the world. Let us pledge to work towards a peaceful country and world.
Arise, awake, and stop not till your goal is reached! -- Swami Vivekananda