Now, this is serious!

Over the past two days, Bangalore witnessed an event which is hard to describe logically.

What happened?

*7 deaths - 6 civilians killed in police firing and 1 policeman beaten to death by an angry mob.

*150 policemen injured.

*60 civilians injured.

*3 petrol bunks, 6 lorries, 12 buses, 3 autorickshaws, 20 cars and 54 two-wheelers of civilians and 7 vans, 3 cars, 5 jeeps and 4 motorcycles of police were set on fire.

*563 arrests.

*A lot of intangibles damaged, which includes the image that Bangalore and its people have not only in India but also outside.

Reason?

Famous Kannada actor Rajkumar died of cardiac arrest. Nobody killed him

Now, I said it is hard to describe what link there is between the death of one man of cardiac arrest and whatever happened that I mentioned above.

Various reasons were cited however. One of them - antisocial elements having a gala time. Jane Galt(link from Amit Verma's blog) has an explanation of the recent Paris riots, which is quite convincing and can probably be applied aptly to the situation in Bangalore too. Still, Bangalore is not Paris in the sense there are no immigrant black Muslims who have been experiencing racial discrimination for decades in Bangalore.

This is really annoying. I wish I can get hold of one of those who perpetrated the violence. I would probably smash his head with a blunt weapon and throw him to the hungry street dogs near my room. He'll then get to know how it feels to die.

If Paritala Ravi was brutally murdered and violence erupted, it is easy to understand. But this? No, I cant. Seven people lost their lives and over 200 got injured just because a few inebriated idiots wanted to have some fun. How worse can it get?