Thursday, April 13, 2006
Bangalore rioting 5
Read more at his great post. And the interesting comments suggest many residents of Bangalore are embarrassed by the rioting.As the news pervaded into every single home over the wire through television sets and over FM Radio, Bangalore strangely found itself choking in an atmosphere permeated with smoke from burning tires and nightmarish visions of road side vandalisms. The city dressed itself in charred remains of burnt tires and glass pieces as it got ready to bid its very last farewell to the acting legend. To a person resident in this city only for the last 4 years this was not only beyond comprehension but outright criminal. Petrol pumps were set on fire and public transports stoned to stagnancy. All stores shuttered down and people ran home "shit-scared" in the middle of the afternoon. I saw no remorse in most of the participants who seemingly had found just another excuse for open drunken revelry on the streets to feed their ever ravenous hunger for sadistic destruction of public property.
What surprises me is that the cops and the govt. did not take adequated precautionary measures from the time RK was declared dead. A lot could have been accomplished in those precious few hours. This kind of hooliganism was seen during the Cauvery Riots and the actor's kidnapping by Veerappan. And that is why the citizens of Bangalore anticipated trouble and Offices closed early and shops downed their shutters.
Regarding the question you left at my blog, vulgarity during the song-and-sequences is the norm. We are after all a repressed society :)
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