Am I next? Or, are you?

The police has hunted down the terrorists behind the recent bomb blasts in New Delhi. Everyone who knows those 'terrorists' is shocked. After all they were just normal people living their normal lives. How could he be a terrorist?

One of them was giving his exams when his fellow 'terrorists' were being encountered a few kilometers away. Were they really terrorists? That's the question.

In the past, the police had often ended up encountering normal people. And a few days after the encounter they were left with red faces, when the innocence of the encountered 'terrorists' were proven.

So it isn't too hard to assume that the police might well have found an easy way to get out of the mess, or well, not get into the mess. Simply put forward the theory of normal men-terrorists. What does that mean? Well simply put, before someone points out that the dead or arrested were normal people. The police itself puts forward the theory that these were people who did everything that normal people did and lived like them, but along with that they participated in terrorist activities.

Well the next thing that you know... well you or I may be rounded up while giving one of our exams and charged with something similar.

Let's just imagine this scenario, I am giving my next trimester exams- specifically, Strategy Implementation. All of a sudden the media and Anti-Terrorist Squad gherao the college. The next thing that you and I know, I am charged with Strategising and Planning some bomb blast(ironically, after (almost) sleeping through two trimesters of Strategy classes). Everyone who knows me is saying that it is not true. The police says that I am a terrorist and I till date was living like a normal guy, but side by side was also doing the Strategic planning and Implementation of the bomb blasts.

Now just re-read the above stanza aloud, the I this time is you. What do you say? How does it feel???

Note: I do not intend to state that the people arrested in this case were militants or innocent. I do not have enough information to comment. Nor do you. I just intend to say that it is so difficult to know what the truth is for laymen like us...

Between... just heard there was another bomb blast in Delhi today! Am I next? Or, are you?