LOSERS

We finally have an answer to the terrorists attacks. We have given it right back to them. How? By the age old tried-and-tested method of ‘ignorance is bliss’.

A bicycle bomb went off in Kanpur on Tuesday hurting 8 people including children. And how have the newspapers covered it? Well, the story is printed on the 13th page of the TOI.

With so many blasts that have taken place killing people in hundreds, a minor blast which did not manage to kill even one is not worth Front-Page news. It’s an everyday thing now. In the foreseeable future such minor incidents won’t even show in papers. It’ll be like one of those road-side brawls which no one is bothered about.

This is what it has all come down to. Have the terrorists won? Maybe, maybe-not. Are they even terrorists? The official police statement is that it was not a terror attack but a ‘handiwork of miscreants’. These so-called ‘miscreants’ in the past were happy with their hoax bomb-threats and minor tiffs here-and-there. But now in the days where even they have taken to bombs, God Save Us.

But the point is, does this even bother us? It doesn’t seem so. We have become used-to or even immune to such deaths now. It’s part of our lives. In fact it’s so banal that it does not even find an honourable mention in our newspapers.

I can almost imagine the first thoughts of the people witnessing this blast.

The LOSERS only managed to hurt 8