At a time when serial blasts have rocked two major Indian cities leaving many dead and injured, drawing political inferences seems so inappropriate. It is very obvious that the blasts have occurred in BJP ruled states and the perpetrators have pointed to the Gujarat riots to justify these attacks. However both the BJP and the Congress should refrain from pointing fingers at each other. This may very well go down as a state versus center issue with both blaming each other. In the meantime the terrorist would have achieved what they always wanted to that is to further antagonize the people on either side. We have already seen what this antagonism has resulted in no development in our security environment which has deteriorated over time. We need to devise a common ground on dealing with the issues of terror, terrorism and terrorists. This common ground can take the form of stricter laws (POTA for example) but which does not infringe on peoples human rights. Greater coordination between the security agencies at the state and the centre, better use of limited resources for policing, crime prevention and investigation, sharing of criminal and suspects databases etc can be done quite easily. A country which produces so many software engineers can definitely improve its crime and criminal databases, tracking and surveillance mechanism, intelligence gathering abilities especially thorough the electronic medias such as mobiles and the internet. But for this to happen we mus
