Violence in Bangalore..

In a city where people are people take up to violence for reasons as petty as their favourite cinemas not playing, a case involving deaths of police personnel at the hands of naxalites is more than a good reason for throwing away the cloaks of civilization. The Hindu has this report today. The torched bus in the picture is at a place where I sometimes wait for waving an auto for getting home. It is reported that about 20 buses were set aflame last night..and some shops near the KSRP quarters were also targetted. Now that is not all. What no report tells is that the IBM building where I sit is just opposite to the KSRP campus and about fifteen minutes back when I stepped into the office I could see that our building has been badly damaged. I do not have a camera right now so can't post any pictures. The front face of the building is almost entirely glass and a lot of it has been damaged.

It is a pity really why people go about destroying private and public property. Amongst the reasons for the protests was the argument that the police station did not have adequate security for handling an attack by some 200 naxalites. Yes similarly the innocent shopkeepers and car owners, who were pelted with stones by the protesters, too did not have adequate security to handle about the same or more number of protesters. I do not understand why every newspaper reports these stories as "acts of protests by angry mobs"..somehow nobody reports or investigates deeper..people can't just walk out of their homes and set fire to buses..it has to be an organized activity but sadly no one has reported anything about it.