When power is split to such a large extent, then no one has sufficient amount of it to make leadership matter.  This is unfortunately, the reality of the Indian political and social system.

Yes DW: These are sad times but these are also times that require firm resolve and intestinal fortitude: I do not see either in those people who call themselves India's leaders.
Rgds, Girdhar

This is true - the good things always need protection.  The best things are most vulnerable.  Survival rituals make everything ugly.

Sad times...

Sir,
Thank you for addressing me w/o the cumbersome title.
Kartha

Thank You Kartha(I hope I can call you that, without the title ?). It is high time that every Indian  be he Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian or every one who espouses another belief or no belief at all , wake up and realize that destroying India is destroying one self. Nihilism and self destruction is the credo of the Jihadi and should be rooted out root and branch.
I very much appreciate your thoughts
Rgds, Girdhar

Santhemant: I do not wish to get into a Hindu Muslim controversy at this time of mourning except to say that
the persons killed in Jaipur had the same feelings and will to live as the Muslims killed in a  riots elsewhere in India. There might not have been a bomb blast in those riots, but the people were equally dead. That does not mean that perpetrators of both kinds of  attacks should not be treated equally and the full extent of the law should be applied to them equally..
     However, I agree that the Jihadi menace is the greater danger in the India of today: but the important point I was trying to make was that man's inhumanity to man is abhorrent in each and every situation and should be dealt with similarly.
Rgds, Girdhar

It is very secular to equate the pain and injustice of communities hindu and muslims as SAME.But tell me about a single HINDU bomb blasts cold blooded ly executed against muslims versus -the hundreth by the Muslim group or an individual??!!do not tell us about some muslim victim somewhere  by mistake or by ISI purpose of doing it to have blame on hindus of India too.when justice is to eqaute the victim too as the initiator of the same crime of  which he is the victim then ,it is grave injustice and destroys the fabric of the common civilisation.

Vasudevan:And that they do in the name of religion. They are killing thousands their own co-religionists  in Pakistan.  This is a long war and  we should all realize that
battles in between are less important, except for those tragically hurt and killed. What is important is the strategic actions that should be taken in the longer term.
Rgds, Girdhar

Thank you Avinash: I hope the welling of sorrow is also combined with a certain amount of controlled anger to set things right.
Rgds, Girdhar