In Response to "No one remembers Boris Rego"

We all had a story to tell that night, and as you must remember, I did blog about it shortly after. (Read Where do we go now?)

Having read my friend's blog -- No one remembers Boris Rego, I find myself revisiting familiar thoughts and questions. There must've been hundreds if not thousands of individuals who went unnoticed, who sacrificed themselves that night to ensure that people like us saw the light of day.

This morning's Times of India reported "Cost of keeping Kasab alive: Rs 31 crore and counting". Everyone knows Kasab's is being cultivated like a vegetable in some dingy cell someplace, somewhere. Then again, Kasab's mere existence is perhaps the strongest deterrent to any future terrorist agreeing to carry out a similar attack.

In my opinion, having ensured the safety of the public, the armed forces concentrate solely on taking these men alive and reducing them to a similar vegetative state. In addition, the media must actively document their stories, their beliefs, their ideas and ideologies and whether anything has changed since their capture.

Its very simple to end a life in a matter of seconds and end a problem. But the long term solution lies in taking these men alive, exposing their roots and heralding them as 'Exhibit A - The Vegetables from across the Border'.

Can we end terrorism? No. But its time to even the scales. Its time we gave them something to think about.