Pulwama Terror Attacks On Valentine's Day

note: this article was written in collaboration with Mr. Ankit Agarwal for our client.

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Yesterday was the day of love — the day we spread happiness and cheer around us and yet, yesterday became the day when hatred in the hearts of a few overshadowed the love in the hearts of many. Yesterday became the day that witnessed a tragedy.

If you ask me, I can’t even imagine the pain, the aftermath, and the misery each of their families must be going through. You see, to (some of) us, the list of martyrs might just be statistics — mere names on a list, or just another enraging WhatsApp forward, or maybe another saddening headline. But to their families, they were someone’s love, someone’s hope, and someone’s idol. They were more than their uniforms — they were individuals with families, with dreams and with ambitions.

And to think that it is always so easy for the terrorists to infiltrate our security, our borders, our checkpoints, and just attack our armed forces like a bunch of goddamn cowards, both during Uri and Pulwama, while standing on the land we worship and breathing the air we cherish makes my blood boil. But then, this is not the time to react. This is the time when we introspect and respond, and make sure that our response breaks their backbones, and not just their jaws.

Attacks like these have made a mockery out of human rights, of international security, and of relationships between neighboring countries. Yet, here we are, standing helpless and simply passing on the blame — from one political party to another, from one community to another, and from one country to another.

We take no accountability of the fact that there are holes in our wall, holes through which these lowlife terrorists entered, holes that must be mended, repaired and filled before we set out to eliminate the real enemy.

Right now, in this moment, we all are united by pain, sadness and this raw rage — rage to kill, to do another surgical strike, to declare a war. But this rage needs to be simmered under the heat of patience, of planning before we act out.

. Let’s avenge the death of our martyrs the way they deserve instead of just pressurizing our leaders and ourselves into making haphazard decisions. But for this, we must make a few sacrifices — we must sacrifice cribbing to our petty issues and stand united, and we must sacrifice this urge of ours to burn it all down. To avenge the loss of lives of these brave martyrs, we have to be patient. . Let’s support the families of these martyrs as much as we can — with our words and with our resources. Let’s not be impulsive and take the bait these terrorists keep hanging in front of us. Let those ‘twitterrorists’ jabber words of nonsense and cruelty, and pay no heed to the venom they spill. . This is the hour of need, the time when we stand together and form a wall to protect those who go through sleepless nights to protect us. . Let us remember that our ‘josh’ is in no way less, but at the same time, it’s not rogue either. . उनके ईंट का जवाब पत्थर से आएगा, बस सही वक़्त की देरी हैं। (Translation: we will give an answer in the language they understand, all we’ve to wait for is the right time). . Jai Hind. ____ . [Writhe] by Bisma (@paandorazbox) and Ankit (@_ankit_agarwal_) | Collaboration.