{"id":890,"date":"2008-07-29T07:06:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T02:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=890"},"modified":"2008-07-29T07:06:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T02:06:57","slug":"bombs-blasts-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2008\/07\/29\/bombs-blasts-bastards\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombs, Blasts, &#038; Bastards&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it seems to be almost a pat sort of response. Bombs went off.  People were killed, and maimed. And, a lot of us look upward to the skies and shout bastards&#8230;&#8230; it is a completely Pavlovian response.<\/p>\n<p>Bastards&#8230;..Bastards&#8230;&#8230;it is just that i don&#8217;t know who I am calling bastards.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of people will put a bomb in a hospital &#8211; even by terrorist standards, the so-called, Indian Mujaheddin is scraping the bottom of the barrel.<\/p>\n<p>And talking of scraping the bottom of the barrel, here is Sushma Swaraj&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/bjp-congress-disunited-in-war-against-terror\/69782-3.html\">response <\/a><\/strong>to the blasts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad reek of a conspiracy to divert attention from the cash for vote allegations and also to bring back the Muslim vote which the Government has lost due to the nuclear deal,&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>as arguments go it is flawed. As logic goes, it is sad. Is a senior member of the opposition accusing the Government of setting off bombs? If so, maybe she shouldn&#8217;t be making political capital on dead Indians but should be working with intelligence agencies furnishing proof. We deserve to know if our Government is bombing us.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you want to go down this path of accusation &#8211; It can be argued just as effectively that post their dismal performance in Parliament where both the Communists and the BJP&#8217;s came out looking like a bunch of churlish chumps &#8211; they got either their Naxal friends or their Hindutva friends to plant the bombs. I am not saying that they did. It is just that they benefit more from the blasts than the Government. It is alright for bloggers and commentators and conspiracy theorists to speculate like this &#8211; not ministers in waiting. Maybe that is why people like her and Advani will wait for ever.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, be it on the nuclear deal, the confidence vote, the blasts, or the aftermath &#8212; Narendra Modi seems like a statesman. It is scary. Seriously scary.<\/p>\n<p>And, finally wtf can&#8217;t the political class have a unified response to terror. Why does Sonia Gandhi go to Ahmedabad<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/002200807282223.htm\"> and sulk<\/a> <\/strong>with Narendra Modi. The positions are constitutional &#8211; not personal. India and its citizens are greater than your differences. If you can break bread with the left after Nandigram, you can be cordial to Modi. Learn from your counterparts abroad. Atleast in terms of public conduct. All of you. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it seems to be almost a pat sort of response. Bombs went off. People were killed, and maimed. 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