The following is a very small selection from what I heard on 26/11 news TV. And I appeal to all of you: we must try to understand, whatever our religion, community or class, 26/11 news TV. Let this be our united pledge.

Boy, are we made of sterner stuff — this was from the nation via NDTV 24x7 to the terrorists. Also from NDTV 24x7 — fighting terror is not a one-night stand, it’s a 24x7 job. However, this realisation should in no way be taken to contraindicate another thing NDTV asked us to do: put our hands together for India. India is bulletproof, I heard this on NDTV, even though our bulletproof jackets are not.

NDTV surveyed Mumbai and found remembrance so overwhelming that the city was in catharsis. In Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, what we were seeing, more important what terrorists were seeing, and I take NDTV’s word for it, was a new India. Indeed, as NDTV pointed out, this is the new India; and all we do in the media is to reflect on this new mood of this now great country (italics mine). I would venture to add that another aspect of this new India would be what an ex-cricketer said on NDTV when the broadcaster was live from Bangalore: how solid are we in our solidarity. From Bangalore, via NDTV, I also heard a message meant not just for new India: 26/11 was a wake-up call for every human being on earth. But, NDTV in Bangalore also alerted me to the fact that our new India apparently has a problem: terror resides within each of us.

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