So do you feel safer when your city ramps up security another notch? When like New York, you're practically on perpetual orange alert? (or is that red alert? Red, as in panic, but not as a one-off thing, as a state of being)
Do you find yourself living in a state of fear...
Not to digress, but on several different levels, once you're in the urban jungle, you have to watch out - you're not safe from criminals, you have to worry about assault, rape, murder. And now this, out of the blue. You're not safe anywhere, not safe doing anything...
Maybe you want want to go shopping at Sarjojini Nagar, but you'll think twice now, won't you?
You'll think twice when your uncle or aunt, father or mother travels by plane, by train, goes in for a conference, travels abroad, goes out...don't forget to breathe.
Terror is the catchphrase of the 21 st century...which doesn't say much. No, we won't be cowed down and we say we'll show those terrorist a******s by going about normal life as if it were, well, normal. But on another niggling level, nothing will be the same again. At the dawn of a new year, something's gotta give.About the AuthorAmrita Tripathi Amrita Tripathi is a news anchor with CNN-IBN, and also doubles up as Health and Books Editor. An MA in Philosophy from St Stephen's College, Delhi Un...Read Morefirst published:December 30, 2005, 10:24 ISTlast updated:December 30, 2005, 10:24 IST
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We're not safe anymore. Noone, nowhere. Bad guys worldwide have had the last laugh. When professors will think twice before going for academic conferences, far from the so-far clearly demarcated conflict zones...when women are pulled out of cars and raped and killed on the side of the road...when anonymous letters warn of a threat to security, of the dreaded two words, "terrorist attack"...
So do you feel safer when your city ramps up security another notch? When like New York, you're practically on perpetual orange alert? (or is that red alert? Red, as in panic, but not as a one-off thing, as a state of being)
Do you find yourself living in a state of fear...
Not to digress, but on several different levels, once you're in the urban jungle, you have to watch out - you're not safe from criminals, you have to worry about assault, rape, murder. And now this, out of the blue. You're not safe anywhere, not safe doing anything...
Maybe you want want to go shopping at Sarjojini Nagar, but you'll think twice now, won't you?
You'll think twice when your uncle or aunt, father or mother travels by plane, by train, goes in for a conference, travels abroad, goes out...don't forget to breathe.
Terror is the catchphrase of the 21 st century...which doesn't say much. No, we won't be cowed down and we say we'll show those terrorist a******s by going about normal life as if it were, well, normal. But on another niggling level, nothing will be the same again. At the dawn of a new year, something's gotta give.
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