Fantasy turns into fact

First of all I offer my heartiest condolences to family members of the victims of cowardly acts of terror taking place in the country. We must not let this terror interfere in our daily lives as this will fulfill the wishes of those cowards.

I find a very disturbing similarity between what is happening in India these days and the events portrayed in the fantasy world of Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling. The terrorists can be compared to the death eaters who strike any place any time without fear. They claim responsibilities for the attacks by sending emails to the news channels. In the books the death eaters claim responsibility to the attacks by using the dark mark.

The govt. of India is totally unable to do anything to stop these attacks instead it parrots the same line that we will go after the terrorists and punish them according to the law (when there is no terror law) after each such attack. In the books initially the Minstry of Magic was in denial about the very existence of Voldemort and later they could not do anything to stop the death eaters who had a free run of Britain.

The police forces and the intelligence groups are restrained from unleashing their full power against the terrorists. They are not allowed to bring in the terror suspects for questioning from the 'minority community' dominated areas by the govt who plays the dangerous game of Vote Bank politics. In the books the aurors are equally helpless and are not allowed to collaborate with the order of the pheonix as the ministry sees dumbledore as a threat to their power. In both the cases the government's desire to be in power allows the terrorists/death eaters to go scot free.

I fervently hope that we find our own version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix to end this scrouge of terror.