More than fifty killed from 25 blasts in two days in couple of major cities of India. The impact on the common man in India is obvious. They are a worried, and terrified lot. Obviously there is suspicion as well. Nobody can now be believed. A normal dustbin could be an object of disaster. Your maid needs a verification from police so does your tenant. Should one use wi-fi? After all the terrorists used somebody’s wi-fi and in the process their IP address. In short everybody is scared, suspicious and worried.

The media coverage has done its bit to add on to this worry. The Indian intelligence and police is being questioned time and again on its ability to control such a situation. Their efficiency is being questioned by the media, they wonder whether they are proactive enough and whether they have systems in place to avoid such an eventuality. Images of terror bodies, injuries, bombs everything is shown time and again. BAD NEWS is increasing television ratings. So has the media become insensitive to the viewer sentiments.

Let me just look at it from a different angle. Should media try to also see the hope in some of our intelligence agency work. After all nearly 5 live bombs have been found and defused. Two cars laden with explosives have been located before they could have done any damage. There are people in the police and intelligence who do have the skill to make a difference. This time around after the blasts riots have not broken out. All of this showing a much better situation given the seriousness of the attacks. Yes, I do not deny that the blasts could probably have been handled better. The failures need to be indicted. I am not trying to give a clean chit to the security and intelligence, but just wanting to know whether there is something that the media should do to calm the nerves of the already worried common man? After all most of us cannot run away from these areas.