Terrorists...within human territory?
As Bangalore recovered from Friday’s bomb blasts, Ahmedabad reeled from explosions on Saturday.
The numbers, 9 blasts in 6 places within 60 minutes at Bangalore.
And 17 blasts in 12 places including two hospitals within 70 minutes.
There are hardly any parallels to what happened in Ahmedabad- in terms of terror attacks, IEDs and suicide bombings, never has a hospital been targeted in the cruel and completely inhuman manner the Civil hospital in Shahibaug and the LG Hospital in Maninagar were. Hospitals are always the centre of action after any attack- it’s perhaps the first time they have become the scene of the attack itself.
If terror is a war, then what kind of war is this - that tries to kill the injured, to maim those already suffering, and to destroy the healers?
And the worst part of the plan- that the blasts at the hospitals were timed to be among the last of them all - 80 minutes after the first bomb went off, 40 minutes after the first round ended - at the very hospitals where most of the injured would be taken. A diabolical plan that slayed a hardworking doctor and his pregnant wife, which murdered little children visiting an ailing grandmother, and so many others. What kind of mind can work out something like that? Sadist would be an understatement. The terrorist group lies when it says the blasts are in revenge for events of the past - it’s the revenge of the future that they aim to create. It’s not our fear they’re looking for, it’s our retaliation they want. And that’s something to think about, as we set it up.

The frame of my mind ...right now

is best explained through this classic by the Cranberries

Here you go:

Understand the things I say
Don’t turn away from me
Cause I spent half my life out there
You wouldnt disagree
D’you see me, dyou see
Do you like me, do you like me standing there
D’you notice, dyou know
Do you see me, do you see me
Does anyone care

Unhappiness, where’s when I was young
And we didn’t give a damn
‘cause we were raised
To see life as fun and take it if we can
My mother, my mother she hold me
Did she hold me, when I was out there
My father, my father, he liked me
Ol he liked me, does anyone care

Understand what I’ve become
It wasn’t my design
And people everywhere think
Something better than I am
But I miss you, I miss
‘cause I liked it, I liked it
When I was out there
Dyou know this, d’you know
You did not find me, you did not find
Does anyone care

Unhappiness was when I was young
And we didn’t give a damn
cause we were raised
To see life as fun and take it if we can
My mother, my mother she hold me
Did she hold me, when I was out there
My father, my father, he liked me
Ol he liked me, does anyone care

Does anyone care