Terrorist attack on IISc

On Dec 28, 2005 an international conference under progress and being
attended by both National and International delegates from all over
the world was attacked by terrorists (numbers are still not known) at
19:30 hrs. Prof Puri was killed in the attack and other four people
were seriously injured including Prof Vijay Chandru and other
distinguished scientists. This was the n-th time (where n -->
infinity) that terrorists attacked the innocent civilians and
scientists on the Indian soil. These attacks are a coordinated effort
by Islamic jihadis, supported by some elements with vested interests
to destroy this country and its indigenous culture and civilization.
They are leaving no stone unturned to achieve their goals. To name few
of the terrorist attacks in the recent times, Bombay blasts, IC-814
hijacking, Delhi blasts, attack on Indian parliament and now attack on
IISc are few of them. Unfortunately, the Indian Government has been
totally insensitive towards these terrorist attacks which are
affecting and hampering the lives of innocent people and the progress
of the country. Instead of taking serious action against those who are
responsible for propagating these heinous ideologies, gun-culture and
human bombs, the attitude of the government is really disappointing.
On one side, government issues strong statements to fight the
terrorism, but these strong statements are not converted into action.
The government is trying to solve a 21st century problem of terrorism
and Islamic jihadism with 18th century laws (framed by british). For
IISc researchers, it is like sending a moon/mars mission with
feathers attached to the rocket to ensure its bird-like flight with no
propulsion devices. It is the time that government comes out of the
shell and vote bank politics and takes strong actions to fight this
Islamic terrorism/jihadism emanating from neighbouring countries,
otherwise, this civilization shall again perish into the darkness for
centuries. After the destruction of Takshashila and Nalanda
Universities by Islamic invaders, it took almost thousand years for
India to setup world class institutes like IISc, IITs and other
institutes of repute. The government which is responsible for standing
upto the expectations of 1 billion Indians shall take the strong
decision to save the lives of the people and these reputed institutes,
otherwise, we may have to wait for another thousand years to reach
this level of innovation and scientific culture, if we let these
Islamic jihadis to overpower us.

Simply increasing the security around these universities will not help
much. Because this will hamper the working conditions of the
scientists and obstruct the free flow of information and environment
of mutual discussion among the scientific community. Therefore we all
Scientists, researchers, engineers and scientific workers request the
govt of India to take strong decisions and convert them into actions
to prevent any future attacks and give severe punishments to all those
responsible for these terrorist attacks on Indian citizens. We hope
that govt shows a strong will power in terms of action (and not empty
rhetoric ) to fight and erradicate this dangerous ideology of Islamic
terrorism/jihadism and save this great culture and civilization of India.