are we sitting ducks??

Two major cities are rocked by a series of blasts within a span of 24 hrs.The IT capital of India Bangalore and the capital of Gujrat Ahmedabad victim to the attacks.Belive it or not but India is under seige.With bomb blasts in these two major cities of India the fear still lurks in other cities like Mumbai,Kolkata and Delhi.The country is under seige and it is time to wake up to all of this.The minds of the citizens are struck by the eventuality of another strike.Going out of the house is no longer safe.The promises made by the government and other intelligence agencies are in no manner reassuring.The continous terror strikes in various cities in the past 5 years is proof to the sheer negligence and incompetence of our security departments.

There are multiple agencies that fight terrorism.They have heaps of information with them.But the truth is that hardly any of it is useful in actually preventing the disaster from happening.The blasts rocked Ahmedabad 24hrs after it rocked Bangalore.Gujrat was under high security alert and still nothing could be done about it.In other words information from intelligence agencies is hardly proving beneficial.There have been over 550 deaths since 2005.How many of the attackers have been arrested yet?..Surely there is a flaw with the security syatem of the country which need to be looked into at the earliest.The people deserve an answer and surely the Government has time to answer a few questions.

There is something that we can learn from the US.A look into the methods adopted by their investigating agencies would definitely improve circumstances.After the 9/11 attacks a new department known as the Dept. Of Homeland Security was formed and various other departments were brought under it.Co-ordination was much easier and information sharing became a norm as to the exception it was.To prevent such attacks we cannot rely on the the standard methods of fighting terror.Local intelligence is very crucial in tracking criminals and cracking down cases.The intelligence agencies should recruit from the under-represented sections of the society and develop awareness among them.Politicians too should give the agencies a free hand while dealing with the security of the nation.

Terrorists take advantage of the incompetence of the existing security apparatus.Weak laws only undermine the democratic foundations of the country.The government must wake up to this and take necessary measures at the earliest to curb terrorism.