I write, Mumbai as being an easy target, as if it was unknown. And maybe it is. But the idea that Mumbai is an easy target, explains in some amount, combined with its high position, in some part, why bombs frequently explode in the city, giving its past name – Bomb-ay - a new meaning.
Being an Easy Target, showed up in the past weeks explosion.
The aftermath effect being the predictable: everybody cursed the terror attack on innocent people, condemned the government and the intelligence failure. And what about being just Easy Targets? A place where, a bomb’s can be planted and exploded.
Zaveri Bazar was hit for the third time since 1992. Opera House and Zaveri Bazar, the two places that were hit, besides Dadar, are places where gold and diamonds get bought and sold by innocent gentlemen.
One would expect these places to match their surrounding to the aesthetics of the products they trade, but this is all imagination.
These are the places with archaic dilapidated and ramshackle buildings, leaving the whole area extremely congested. And this existence has been impossible to mend due to the same innocent men, who are thought to be victims of all this terror.
Or may be they are not. They are just innocent and powerless and its someone else who has created the mess!
Mumbai, I’d prefer Bombay, is stuck in this web of innocent folk, comatose, unable of any collective action, who have made themselves and the city, an Easy Target.
