Still in Gandhian time warp??

Alarm bells have started ringing louder than ever before in India - that of terrorism.Though the sound is deafening our ears,it seems to fall into the deaf ears of the bureaucrats who rule us.Sounds of bomb explosions and bloodshed have blent so intricately with our quotidian that the news of a tragedy exits our memories,as fast as it enters our ears,which makes me wonder sometimes,if India is an Iraq in the making.Imagine three blasts within 2 months of time,in a nation renowned for peace and regarded a safe place to live on earth.Where did this all trigger and where is it progressing to,is one thing we will have to ponder over.
To begin the analysis,it takes me to the pre-independence era,when a part of the flesh of Mother India was communally divided to form a nation called Pakistan.We had fought hand in hand for more than 200 years to free ourselves form the clutches of the British,but ultimately were not able to hold the spirit even for an year after independence.If only the vanguards of the liberation movement had settled for this compromise at its early stages,so many people would not have sacrificed their lives preventing the inevitable partition.Who will console the souls of those who died dreaming of an united, independent India?Even after 60 years of independence,nothing seems to have changed,except for the names of the upper echelons of the government.Pakistan still seems to be the alleged cause for the terror escapades in India and pathetically we don't have answers to the conundrums they have for us.Gone are those days,when Jesus Christ asked to show the other cheek,when slapped on one cheek.In today's world,I tend to believe that if someone slaps on the other cheek also,even Jesus would get furious.Playing on the back foot is as good as forfeiting your wicket(could not control using a cricket terminology here,only which I know best) .
Four commercially important cities including the national capital have witnessed bombs going off in public places,in this year alone.And that too on consecutive days in Bangalore and Ahmadabad.All that the police and the home minister has to say is "the criminals would be brought to light and booked soon" and they take off to their own world.How can a minister be so apathetic to a national crisis and not even ashamed to give out the same reply every time media questions him.Not many would have forgotten the 7/7 blasts that shook London,when the culprits were identified days after the mishap,using a CCTV recording.When we live in an age, when even 'kirana' shops have a CCTV fitted in them,why don't we use it for national security?But I would be wrong if I say that the technology was not in place.I was shocked to see a report on a news channel,which showed a senior police official confessing that out of the 28 CCTVs placed in the Gaffar market in Delhi,only 4 were functional and even those are not capable of scanning 360 degrees.In fact the reporter showed a wire from one such gadget lying unplugged.What is the point in having a dog that cant bark??
Even worse is the blame game played by the politicians just to hype their image.Narendra Modi recently said that he had alerted the PM on the attack on Delhi,which he knew out of an investigation with those convicted in the Ahmadabad blasts.But the icing on the cake was the home minister's acknowledgement,that he was well aware of what was to come,even before Modi, but he owed the negligence to the lack of sufficient data.Logically speaking,are the terrorists inviting us for their wedding party,to mention the date and venue of the incident?Why the hell do we have intelligence agencies like RAW and IB then?Would they have acted in the same way,if the threat was for the prime minister or the president?Just because people don't show back their aggression,doesn't mean that they will nod their heads for anything that the government says.When the police department is intelligent enough to diffuse at least 20 live bombs in Ahmadabad,what prevents them from being proactive rather than repenting over the spilt milk?Since the time I started eyeing the national headlines,I have been hearing the names of terrorist groups like Indian Mujaheedin,Lashkar-e-Toiba etc., but don't remember any truculent steps that were taken to annul their existence.Time and again we have only succumbed to them, who hide themselves behind the veils of the religion Islam.Though this appears to be an unending debate, I would like to place a full stop to my analysis with few suggestions from my side,for India to win its war over terrorism.

• Set up a ministry exclusively for the national security,led by a minister who has to take care of the intelligence agencies.
• Create a R&D environment(for which RAW exists already) to anticipate things and curb the action of these anti socials.Funds should be allocated exclusively for this.I feel,this is as important as signing a nuclear deal,on our march to become a super power.
• A Special Task Force should be created to continuously monitor the activities of the alleged anti socials in the country to crackdown their missions and keep battling against them,rather than just doing an autopsy after a tragedy happens.
• Is the government actually aware of and updated on the demography of India?This is like a hole in the ozone layer,which permits the existence of any living being,without entering the records. Like in the US,every citizen should be given an unique number for identification,with which one can be tracked anytime.Also the particulars of every transaction they make,like even buying a phone connection,should be authenticated and stored for future use,in case of emergency.
• The database of the police department and even the CBI should be linked together and made available to the public,without whose cooperation nothing can happen.Remember,every citizen is a police without a 'khaki' uniform.
• Acts of terror should be judged and punished as fast as possible,with rigorous punishments,giving them the highest priority.

Though Mahatma Gandhi's birthday is just a fortnight away,I would urge you all to just remember him,but do not carry forward his principles and ideals of non-violence into this century as well. Jai Hind!!!