I am starting this log on a very sad date in the Indian calendar. Today the Indian NSG has finally rescued Mumbai, the financial capital of India, from a 3 day siege by, what news papers call, the Islamic terrorists. Innocent have been slaughtered by the nameless, faceless hands of terror. The scar shall remain forever.

It is a sad day not because people have met the end that shouldn’t have been. It is not a sad day because a mother lost her only son to the bullets of an insane beast. And it is not a sad day because we will not be the same when we step out of our houses again. It is a sad day because lessons have still not been learnt. Because our politicians still think that they can win the coming elections by promising a “reward” of Rs. One Crore to the families of the dead, because they still feel that Mumbai is a big city and such incidents can happen… obscene. I wonder why are the terrorist organizations wasting their men and money on killing Indians, don’t they realize we have a house full of political leaders for that.

The race has begun to what would destroy India first, the terrorists or our politicians. But India will survive… India has to survive…. We can not let either win. Today on a news channel a man held a placard --- it read --- Mr. Terrorist I am alive after all that has been done by you….. Mr. Politician I am alive despite you. Somewhere those lines written by a complete stranger told me that I had to write this…. Because like the millions of my country men I too have had enough of the terrorists and the politicians. Why can’t our politician for once drop out of the rat race to the chair and think about the people that have put their lives in their hands. When will these people realize that they too are at risk, that their son too could have been partying at the Taj when the terror struck and that their wife could have had been at CP shopping at the time of the blasts in Delhi. For heavens sake some one tell them that they too are at an equal risk… it’s not only the common man they so easily choose to ignore, that is mad of flesh n blood. And if they find it too difficult to do something even now, then is it time for the common man to take things it his own hands. Is it time to tell the politicians that if they do not become leaders in the true sense of the word, we do not need them at all, after all nothing is irreplaceable……………. Mr. Politician I will be alive despite you.