Our office has reported that employees need to stay put in order not to get caught in the panic that is slowly but surely spreading across the city, and I personally feel that it is a wise thing to do – wait and watch in the relative comfort of one’s office environs as the events of the day unfold.
However, the explosions, regardless of the intensity are the handiwork of people that want to alter our way of life fundamentally and to induce a sense of fear within people that will make them think twice before they venture out of their homes to do anything that they wish to do, thereby robbing them of their freedom to do what they wish to.
Bangalore has been luckier than most other Indian cities with regard to the impact that serial blast induced terror has had on it, which is why there is a sense of panic that one wouldn’t see in cities like Mumbai which has, due to its status in the country been privy to incidents far worse than Bangalore has ever witnessed.
What would be lousy would be if people were to alter their way of life fundamentally in the face of these incidents, thereby ensuring that those who caused the blasts achieved their objectives. I hope that people would say ‘screw those bomb planters, let’s get on with things’ and let things take their own course, while exercising a little caution in any case.
Righto, I read some where when the metro in UK was bombed people did not use it for many days out of sheer fear but I have seen places in India coming back to normalcy, (many a times superficial one) in a few days time. I guess this beats the terrorists purpose all together.
hope this continues even with Bangalore, its too awesome a place (with people like me inhabiting it) to peter away into oblivion for even a short duration due to terrorist chooths.