Mumbai again!

They have targeted the financial capital of India again, and the rest of India looks at them with helplessness and sympathy. Terror strikes in 11 different places at regular intervals, it includes 2 important hotels in TAJ and OBEROI-TRIDENT. And they have held around 100(or even more??) as hostages in both the hotels. The hostages include foreigners as well. The worst part, more than 100 people have been killed which includes 6 foreigners and 14 policemen. 

The terrorists disguised themselves to be musicians and entered the hotel and occupied their rooms, the hotel authorities had not checked their baggages and the boxes they had carried, this shouldn't have happened in hotels of such standards for sure which are mostly occupied by the delegates of various nations and the businessmen. The hotel authorities not knowing that they were at jeopardy let them in with no security checks and this act has definitely raised eyebrows around the world concerning the security measures adopted at the various high profile hotels around the country. 

This attack has definitely raised questions not just about the security of our nation but at this period of immense financial crisis and economic slowdown this has come has an even bigger blow to our economy. The foreign investment would definitely take the blow and that will affect the Indian investors as well. This should be the other reason why the terrorists chose Mumbai as their destination again. The best way to hinder the growth of this nation would be to attack and exploit its economy, and they just exploited that transparency that was rather inviting for them. I wonder how the markets are going to act to such turmoil, it does smell much of the 9/11 attacks on America that hit their economy (indirectly the world as well) in a really regretful way.

What is happening to Mumbai? The execution of this attack clearly evinces the amount of planning that has gone into it. 11 planned attacks in regular intervals, the amount of effort that has been put has to be taken into consideration deeply. This indicates the significant lapse of security in the city of Mumbai. From using the sea route to reach Mumbai till executing the attacks, the terrorists have had the upper hand. They have done what they wanted to do, let know the world that India is not a safe country and again targeted the financial capital.I wonder what the people held hostage would be thinking or feeling. As such its been the poor who have been targeted most of the time but this time around i believe this is a deliberate effort by the militants to attack the upper class and the rich. But rich or poor Indians remain Indians. 

The sincere efforts of the military,commandos and policemen sacrificing their lives for the rest shows their commitment towards this nations security. I salute them, but why could they not prevent such an attack? As we know the whole country is in an alarming situation, they should have been more careful. Past is past, there is no use dwelling at it. I am sure that our forces can tame these militants, but the question of hostages still remain isolated. 

The whole political scene has changed today, the different political parties seem to have been cooperating with each other and the Congress led government. Yes though it is just a temporary action, this is what India needs. This should definitely be encouraging the forces who are working hard to wash away the terrorists and wipe them out completely from our nation. The whole nation needs to stand together, and i feel that it is the only way we can decimate these terrorists. 

For now the rest of India needs to pray for the dead and diseased. We definitely need a better system for tackling these attacks and this issue needs to be addressed with significant priority among other issues. May God bless India!

JAI HIND