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What are we up to?

In the wake of the Mumbai attack by terrorists, the common man in India is all set to think about where our country and we are moving. Though our security guards and police force defeated the terrorists within sixty hours, there is a series of paradox attached to this unfortunate event. We call our self as tech-savvy and term the world as a global village, we launch a self-controlled satellite in space, trace a person in any part of the globe, but still, we cannot gauge the exact strength of the terrorists attacking the commercial capital of our country. We still ask our police to use the 1947 manufactured guns and 1857 manufactured bulletproof jackets to fight with the terrorists equipped with AK 47 rifles and latest weapons. But we won’t ask the same to be done with our politicians’ security. The (mostly corrupt?) politicians are equipped with all the XYZ plus security though they may or may not be in power, as if they are the nation’s most important property. Till date terrorists u