26-11 terror attacks on Mumbai

If you are one of those who were born after 2004, you will probably cast your first vote in 2024, or 2029, but you were not born when Parliament attacks happened, you were a toddler when train and market blasts were routine, and you were at best 4 when 26/11 happened, and 10 in 2014.

By no fault of yours, you don't understand what happened the three days during 26/11, the magnitude of it, and our sheer shock. For most of us, it was confusing, for we were just wondering how it could happen, and it did. Further, the meek after response left us shattered.

I can't stress this enough, but a billion Indians languished for mental closure after 2008, and they did not get it for over a decade, until 2019, but what you see today, the entire national security ecosystem, it is the extreme opposite of what we had during those days.

No easy way of putting this, but we were assumed to be sitting ducks, and after 26/11, that feeling only grew. So, read about those days. Talk to your elders. Understand the transformation we live in today. Talk about train blasts in Mumbai (2006) and Delhi market blasts (2008).

Today, around Diwali, we get angry about cracker bans and what not, and I find it to be a luxury, given the routine conversation around Diwali, back in the day, was the imminent security threat, and how some attack may happen, as it did in Delhi in 2008, weeks before 26/11.

Beyond the wrongs of it, there are two crude facts that haunt us from that era. One, we did not respond to Parl attacks of 2001 and the Mumbai attacks of 2008. The emotion people felt back in the day, hard to put into words, but they'd have not opposed the decimation of Pakistan.

Two, the Congress government we had, post-2008, wanted to use 26/11 as a launchpad to attack the Hindus (RSS ki saazish BS), and not as an opportunity to take out Pakistan. 

Don't hate Congress because they have RaGa. Hate them for their lack of spine and national consciousness.

So, when the likes of Kejriwal and low-IQ influencers on IG tell you that the India of today is unsafe and unhappy, dismiss their BS, and take a trip down the troubled memory lane. Trust me, you don't want to feel, as a child, growing up, what many felt in the 2000s.