Obituary - Indian Intelligence Agencies

May 13, 2008 - JAIPUR

"Terrorists struck for the first time in Jaipur triggering seven blasts in a span of 12 minutes on Tuesday night in crowded market areas and near a Hanuman temple in the walled city leaving 68 killed and 200 injured..."

May 18, 2008 - HYDERABAD

"As many as 16 persons were killed and over 50 others injured in a bomb blast in the historic Mecca Masjid..."

July 25, 2008 - BANGALORE

"Low intensity blasts rocked IT hub Bengaluru on Friday afternoon killing two and injuring seven people..."

July 26, 2008 - AHMEDABAD

"At least 45 people were killed and over 100 were injured as 16 serial bomb blasts rocked Ahmedabad on Saturday evening..."

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Which city is next???

Firstly, my deepest sympathies to the families of the victims of the above blasts and that’s the least and most I can do as a denizen of India. No one but them can feel the loss they have had and no condolence is enough to make good their loss. Yet, this is how our government values lives...

Jaipur blasts: PM announces relief of Rs 1 lakh

So now we know value of one life in a country of a billion. I would like to know what valuation method was adopted in evaluating value of life of a person lost. Mr. Prime Minister, may I point out that a single kidney of a live person given for a transplant is worth more than what you are offering for a life? Isn't it just asking a dead man to die again for all he was worth was paltry Indian National Rupees Hundred Thousand? SHAME to Government because they weren't paying for the families to walk away. They were paying the families, so they could walk away! The intelligence agencies are rendered clueless about the happenings. Post such gruesome incidents; there is always a line in the papers about a forewarning by the Intelligence. The question is, "Why does this forewarning reach the people after the tragedy?” A mystery as to why the Government and the IB despite having the forewarnings cannot act in time to save lives. It would be understandable if it were a natural calamity like earthquake, the gauging of which can be hypothetical. But bomb blasts??? Probably because lives are cheap... Rs 1 Lakh is affordable to the PM's relief fund!