A Closure???

Life is apparently less happening than it was till a month ago.

There is some time to actually kill by reading whatever I can lay my hands on or even watch the tube.

But then yesterday ( pretty much the complete last week ) woke me up from the slumber.

Finally, we will , as a nation punish a person for not just killing the innocent and waging war against the state, but for leaving a deep deep scar down under the left side pocket.

A person who was so blind with eyes of religious fanaticism that he chose to do something so horrendous to people he did not know, let alone his enemies.

His face showed everything that “Humanity” is afraid of. The expression in the picture clicked by Sebastian D’Souza said it all I guess.

Today there were celebrations, poojas , bursting of fire crackers at a lot of places to welcome the decision. Our heros were Justice Tahalyani and Mr. Ujwal Nikam.

But an equal, or probably even bigger bow to Mr. K P Pawar (Kasab’s lawyer) to uphold our nations values of being true and fair to one and all in the corridors of justice.

But why am I not relieved?Why am I not pleased?Not even a little?

Of course it has been a sort of emotional catharsis for us as a society.But are we done?

Was this a closure to the traumatic tragedy for all of us?

I doubt it.

As much as the victims families believed that justice was served, in no way any of us as a society can call it a closure.

Until we talk to our neighbor and include others and just not talk about another bus or train ( pretty much the words of one of the survivors of the 26/11) and let go of the so called diplomacy ,just for a second try and talk about terrorism with the heartfelt pain and fear which people experienced on that day, I doubt if we will ever achieve a closure.

Let us not have any another DD/MM etched in our memory as a darn terror tale.

Let us not