India Blasted

I wasted half a day today listening to people in office chatter about the blasts (my American boss enquired if anyone I knew was injured). Another American member on my team jokingly said," Man, India has got a lot of patience to deal with these people". Does India really not do much about these terrorists? Are we really a soft state? Topics which I used to neglect back home are coming back to haunt me here. Really, does India need people from outside coming in to lead the party which bargained for our freedom (and division). Does India not have leaders like Indira Gandhi anymore, who could foresee the benifits of finishing the enemy altogether? Does India have a problem of neglecting problems too close to home and is the media also to blame for it for the fear of igniting communal passions? Why do we allow all these Bangladeshis in? Why do the politicians support the Maoists implicitly? Why cant we make an expressway between Bangalore and Mysore? Why is the IT industry looked upon as anti farmer? What are we doing about everything? What can we do about it? Is there hope, atleast for the next generation or do we just keep cribbing about it and migrate to the US? Is it fine to order big macs when millions of children in my country are going to sleep hungry? Even after almost 60 years post independence, why do we have more poor people below the poverty line than we started off with? On 15th August next year, we shall celebrate the golden jubilee of independence of the largest democracy in the world. I wonder sometimes if am I sounding like a BJP guy? Or is it that I think they have the sound vibes that I want to hear? I wonder where my beloved country is headed to? I wonder..