“PM condemns blast, appeal for calm” read the breaking news on cnn-ibn as I sat watching webcast of the channel covering Delhi blasts. And just an hour after listening to brilliant soliloquy of Naseeruddin Shah in “Wednesday” I just couldn’t help feeling frustrated by that appeal for calm.

Do we need to maintain calm? Do we need to show resilience? Do we need to arrest them and then law find its own course?

A bloody NO – We gotta find these people and butcher them – Do an Israel on these terrorists. I think its time – with blasts in major cities becoming an alarmingly frequent happening – our leaders can’t just issue an appeal on calm, condemn the blasts and raise some decibel levels about cross-border support. We must DO something about it for God’s sake. In less than 50 days there have been blasts in Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Delhi – and we wanna call ourselves an “emerging power”. I would rather say never before were we more weak and vulnerable.

9/11 is among the most daring and bloodiest terror attacks but just look at the way US reacted to it. Palestinians may or may not have a case against Israel but try a terror attack on them and there are booming tanks that is Israel’s response. Whether its Russia in Chechanya or China in Xinjiang– Superpowers don’t respond to terror attacks with calm they respond with a heavy hand. They respond to destroy the perpetrators – they go across borders to do that and its time we do it too. Super Powers are respected and feared at the same time – but from Pakistan to Bangladesh to Nepal – no one seems to give a damn about self-proclaimed superpower called India.

“Lessons have been learnt in handling post-blast situations” said Rajdeep continuing his coverage and I couldn’t again help feeling irritated by the irony. Why “Post-Blast” – when will our police, agencies learn pre-blast lessons that can help avoid them.

“People have become numb to blasts” commented some other TV Journalist. What do you want people to do – a Naseer – take out demonstrations, may be BJP workers will do it. But ain’t this government of the people, by the people? Do they need demonstrations from people to know what needs to be done? Or do we need to take up arms and march to Islamabad ?

May be we need someone like Narendra Modi at the helm, someone like KPS Gill in police – people who may not be favourite of Human Rights organizations but when choice is between human lives and human rights – maybe its better if we care about the first. Rights are subverted and some innocent are compromised but situation we are in can only be corrected at a cost and longer we wait costlier the whole setting right process will become.

I know the lame-duck PM and spineless government of India will do more than paying lip service but I just wish that they had guts to do something more…..