The Fear Factor

It was November 2006. The winter was in chilling mood. Everything was going calm, quite and THANDA. The last week of that November came with a feary heat. It was anarchy all over. The reason was Kanpur incident. Some evil forces designed the plot and a spiral wave of anger and violence swept across India. The raw face of voilence found in Maharastra those days. It was a classic example of how media play and exploit the common man's feelings. As soon as electronic media started beaming the images of Kanpur, the anger start mounting. It was a hammering impact of those images. The volcano of sentiments exploded with ablast that left Maharashtra paralysed for nearly a month. From Mumbai to Nagpur, everywhere people came on the streets and start protesting against that Kanput incident.
Aurangabad was also burnt in that voilence. Some part of the city was totally out of reach for the police force those days. People from these areas attacked police officials and jawans. After that police force came in to action and at first shot the stopped beaming news channels in the city. After that police started their operation and slowly got controll over the situation. But it cost heavily to the city. Industries got a massive jolt, schools were closed, markets were closed, everything was at standstill. Aurangabad city faced this for a complete week. In financial terms Aurangabad lost at least Rs. 100 crore's turnover in those days. The fear was so much that after a month also few pwople dared to go outside with family in the evening .
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Its January 2008. Same fear looms over the city again. Rumours starts as the sun rises and fear increases multiple way. This time the ground zero is Mumbai. Death of a Budhdhist Priest caused the fury this time. The news of his death flashed on the channels in the afternoon yesterday. Police smelled what can happen after this in the city. They quickly banned news channels and started patrolling. This time the intensity was a low affair. Barring few incidents city is calm and quite. But rumours still ruling the city...
The Fear Factor is still there...