With Mumbaikars going about their quotidian routine even as terror clouded the mind this week, a look at the New York Times Square bomb case shows just how far behind India is in tackling terror compared to the US.
With Mumbaikars going about their quotidian routine even as terror clouded the mind this week, a look at the New York Times Square bomb case shows just how far behind India is in tackling terror compared to the US.
In the Times Square incident, Pakistan origin-American Shahzad Faisal left behind an explosives-laden car in the Big Apple's tourist hub, designed to detonate and kill as manyu00a0 Americans as possible. By the way, Indians must have noticed Pakistan's almost grovelling response to the Faisal capture. Not one Pakistan official denied Faisal's Pak links and the Pak police swooped down on suspects in Karachi with eyebrow-raising alacrity.
Compare that with all the denials about Pak links post the 26/11 attacks and all those Pakistani voices whining about how India is demonising Pakistan. We do not hear the same whines now in the Times Square case.u00a0
Yet, what was most noteworthy was how the US authorities detonated the explosives in the Nissan Pathfinder in a controlled explosion. A robot was sent in to the Times Square vehicle and the bomb was detonated. That is hi-tech terror fighting. Compare the robot with the fact that in India, bullets went through supposedly bulletproof jackets, which our top cops wore while trying to fight 26/11. To compound that shame, two years after 26/11 we do not yet know who ordered those bulletproof jackets or what happened to them. We continue to trade charges about them. The corruption stands up in sharp and shameful relief against the Times Square case.
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On a less grim note, the IPL ousted commissioner Lalit Modi and other IPL cricket heavyweights watching the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean, cannot have escaped noticing what a swinging party cricket fans are having in the stands. The Caribbean is a pleasant deviation and because of security measures spectators are often hemmed in, curbed of effusive outbursts of enthusiasm. Maybe, Modi or the new man in, Chirayu Amin ufffd would now give IPL-IV some rap and reggae West Indies flavour. Who needs clueless-about-cricket, leggy white models and actors to have a cricket party? No controversy, no income tax men and no strange agents given contracts to arrange parties with bleary-eyed cricketers taking the crease the next day. Let the fans have a Windiess whirl.
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