Two mothers!

Newspapers were my oxygen once upon a time and with my "self imposed break" I got time now to really indulge in newspaper reading!

Breezing past the usual politics, local news, politician love stories and "the late to be printed news" of Indias, almost sure, ouster from T-20 World Cup, I settled to the International Section. (I don't go according to the pages and rather go according to my interest in subjects).

I was in loss of words after having gone through the International & National news. Two stories but had one common word in the minds of the people, on whom the stories were.

Two days ago there was a bomb blast. If I am not wrong, 20 people lost their lives and more than that number were injured!

The same day, one person was killed but as he died he killed three others!

At the end, after having read both the articles I really wondered what their mothers would be going through. I mean, just read it! Your child is killed and what is the reason? Awh! That probably could be the deciding factor, without undermining the grieve!

Now for the real story!

The 20 people who died, included the bomber in a remote city of Pakistan! A 12 year old kid walked with a the bag to keep it in a crowded place. He wondered what all he could do with it! Colas, Sweets, toys, clothes, everything wandered in his innocent mind! Little did he know that he wouldn't even have the joy of making use of the Rs.50 note because the bag he carried had a bomb, which exploded as soon as he kept. The militants had cheated (they called it bribed in the newspapers) a "12 year old" kid to go and keep the bomb at a crowded place as an answer to the war raged on them by the Pakistani Army!

The man who died and as he died killed 3 others was a Major from the Indian Army. Born in Ahmeadabad, the Major was informed, through Intelligence reports, about an infiltration into the country through POK. As he rounded the infiltrators, he was sure he would get his battle to the result he was asked to! The battle raged on for more than a day. The next day it started raining and as they were waging the battle the Major lost hold of his foot grip and slided down right under the nose of the infiltrators. Even as he was sure that he would be killed he didn't let his mission have a dead end. He pulled the trigger! Three dead infiltrators and the other 2 ran back into POK, all this in a matter of 20 seconds!

Wonder what these two mothers would be feeling sitting in two different countries? One whose son was lured with money for a "momentory" financial freedom to have some sweets & colas and the other whose mind knew only one thing to protect the freedom of the Nation that he served!