Hats-off to the Indian Express
Recently in view of the Mumbai train blasts incident the New Indian Express newspaper started a column called “Mumbai’s Life Stories”. Everyday in this column the life of one of the victims of the blasts is portrayed. These stories of a common mans who has been victimized in such terrorist acts are very touching indeed!
Every time we get to hear of such a terrorist act, all we get to see are mere number of victims being flashed in news channels, which keeps constantly increasing as time passes! “Numbers” in these cases can never convince the readers of the grief inflicted by such inconceivable acts.
On many occasions I have found men in their coffee-time-chats saying something like “hey, I heard about 200 civilians died in Lebanon, near the border!”…and very soon another man corrects him saying “no I guess it was 220!”…such a mere correction of the numbers doesn’t even remotely raise the interest of the others present there!!!
Even if a single human being is killed in such acts, we often don’t realize that it’s an entire family that is deeply shaken-financially, socially as well as emotionally.
No citizen deserves to be killed, just because of terrorism, what wrong have the victims done to be affected by such extreme violence!
It is only after I started reading this column in the New Indian Express that I really felt for the victims and their families, and my restlessness to eradicate terrorism exponentiated.
September 25, 2006 at 1:25 pm
I agree..its a good column…but you can’t deny its a smart marketing move after all human interest stories do work…and get a lot of public sympathy..