India's encounter with Terror

Nothing can be said about the Bombay terror attack that would be enough to explain or describe the gruesome incident. The sheer audacity of the terrorists to lay out such a well thought out plan in action in the financial capital of the country is more agitating than anything else.Sadly one realises that in the past half year, the number of such incidents and the speed of their moving closer to one's doorstep has been on a continuous rise, and unfortunately has kind of made us (and I do not want to look at the government /politicians as a separate body here) - "complacent" towards them.
That 60 odd hours of horror,blood,fight and counter-fight on the streets of a democratic nation,has to be witnessed,that a constant coverage by the media ( whether true to the spirit of media or sensationalist cannot be commented in this sensitive time), that a fleeing of the visiting England team (when a day before it was our Indian cricketers refusing to tour Pakistan for the same reason), that a 'demonsatrtion by the Bombay-ites protesting against the government' and several such blog posts,citizen comments and media bytes would RESULT in anything, still needs to be seen.And it is here that the agitation and restlessness within every individual may not get a positive, collective, solution- oriented vent if not channelised properly.
Two nights of sleepless helplessness,shock and grief has left me so disturbed that it is difficult to imagine how the people caught in the midst of it all would have handled it. And what infuriated me further, was the way the Media and guests invited to join their discussions kept mentioning the "Spirit of Bombay"- Is there truly any "Spirit" that is being glorified here, does any Bombay-ite - socialite, hawker or service personnel have any other option??? Do the citizens of the country, be it a Delhi witnessing blasts or a Jaipur temple being targeted, or a series of blasts haunting Assam, have an option but to resume their daily life- either as a submission to the 'practical requirements of life' or 'the inevitability of it all with no solution ever coming since time immemorial'?! To make it a feel good
factor by calling it the SPIRIT of Bombay,is using the people's tenacity or helplessness as an easy veil
to hide behind..and not something I as a citizen would want to allow.
I still wish I knew what is to be done- not just the resignation of a Union Minister, not just a strategic "Crisis Management Cell" or a "RAW & Counter Terrorism Cell" but a committed, collective STRONG indication to nip this ruthless terrorising in the bud, and find a Solution to the misplaced mindset of these people( Even as a person belonging to a similar age group as the perpetrators of this crime, I was just not able to understand what would or could make them internalise terror to the extent of brutally spattering it around)
As my brain refuses to stop thinking about it, and my heart feels immensely grief-stricken, I hope that as I battle all of this with my day-to-day demand of job and life (to sell biscuits even on a Sunday because of the corporate target pressure), and as each of us would be forced to, this time around a solution be found, and personal prioirities do not push the complacency back to the forefront.