A day after the country overwhelmingly rejected the Sena's politics of hate, and a day before the world celebrates love and togetherness on Valentine's Day, terror visited Pune in the form of a bomb blast at the popular German Bakery in Koregaon Park, claiming 9 and injuring around 50 peace-loving citizens and tourists, out to enjoy a beautiful weekend.
Pune's loss of innocence...
And while security forces took charge of the scene, and ordinary men and women pitched in to help the victims, Uddhav Thackeray went on TV to make yet another of his disgusting statements, "The police should take the victims not to hospital, but to the theatre, to watch MNIK".
Many have commented that the police found it more important to protect theatres and MNIK, and hence the blast occured - and I think this is a very childish argument. For one, this isn't about a movie. It's about the freedom of choice for people for country to do what they want to do without the threat of goondagiri and vandalism. By protecting MNIK, the police did a fabulous job protecting the law of the land, and the freedom of its people! Political parties cannot be allowed to hijack a country of a billion people based on the senile thoughts and comments of its leaders.
And let's be real please. There is no way in the world for a police force, no matter how sophisticated and strong, to monitor every hangout, every restaurant, every roadside eatery, every bakery... for days and years... If only the waiter who opened the parcel had decided to call the police instead, this tragedy could have been averted!
14 months of peace has come to a shattering end, but the country will need to move on. We cannot let terror win.
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