Attack on IISc Bangalore

This article is my outrage and feelings directed at the attack that took place on Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. I was actually shocked and deeply hurt on hearing the ghastly news of a professor being killed in the shootout at IISc.
Although I was associated with this great institute only for a very short time I am not able to control my emotions over what has happened yesterday there. Let me first of all clarify my relationship with IISc, Bangalore. I was awarded the Young Engineering Fellowship Program - 2005 by this institute I considered this a great honor and duly accepted it. The truth being that I was more eager to enter this place than anybody else. I resided and did work there for just two months, but I must confess that this brief period of stay there has been the most enervating, knowledgeful and inspiring sojourn for me. I had learnt more than just a lesson in my life, I got my first and everlasting motivation to pursue research. For all the rest of my life I might have to attribute that more than green bucks or the research fever rampant now in undergradute students, especially because of the easy gateway it is to many students aspiring to enter US, my experience there and the atmosphere at IISc had motivated me to take up research as my career objective. I never ever realised things could be put in so productive a use. Never felt that people from all over India were given an abode whose sole mission was to encourage intellectual pursuit. The first impression of IISc I got was awe inspiring. And that shattered the myth in my mind about the superiority of US institutions. It gave me the first live proof of the potential and research promise Indian institutions hold.
Today I come across articles which give specific details of how fanatic, militant outfits and perpetuators of crime come and kill a professor for no real reason and cause, and get away in a car. Now this raises several issues, let me discuss all of them.
First of all the lapses in IISc,
1. I do agree and infact sympathise with some matters at hand with authorities of IISc. I might be the only guy here being a little bit sympathetic with guards and the regular security deployed there. But I too draw the line at some point there are some serious discrepancies which still remain a mystery. The agreement here is that security deployed could not have done much to handle such a situation and contain a terrorist attack. What can regular guards with atmost a baton in hand do to handle terrorists armed with automatic rifles. Even fighting over lifes (which I seriously doubt anybody of them might) they will not be able to shield more than one or two bullets before giving away.
But where is the strict security that prevails over in IISc???? where did all of them disappear I distinctly remember being questioned for around 20 minutes before being let inside the campus on the day I landed there. I have seen how all the cars and vehicles coming inside had been registered and let in later. Now a guy in a car comes out and shoots at the professor and leaves the place in a get away car !!!! without being detained and makes an escape now this is highly unusual and unlikely of the general situation at IISc.
2. Now coming back to the central and main question. Why IISc??? what was the reason IISc was targeted??? just because some jehadi bastard feels it is a prospering target or much reputed institution. Now this is the ugliest form of terrorism choosing a place like IISc. What had IISc ever did in general to gain this reputation of being targeted or for figuring on this list of targets.
These are some questions and doubts for which I will be searching for answers.
But I will not be doing justice to this article without making a mention of deceased Professor MC Puri, this is what goes as the NDTV news report I am reading right now on the web When this incident happened there was a girl standing in front of him and he had seen the attacker.He pushed the girl down and shouted that there has been an attack. The girl escaped unhurt while the bullet hit him my heartfelt sympathy and any expression of sorrow that might be able to aptly describe my feelings towards this greatly. A death glorified by courage and his demeanour in the nick of time. I do hope that this is the last such incident to be happening in such a great place.
I don't know how much of a change this might bring about, I also am not atleast making an estimate of how many are going to read this article but I do pray that even if it is against the ethics and mission of IISc, I do hope that atleast some professors in IISc contribute to making technology that will obliterate these mindless bastards from the earth. Be it space technology, missile anything that might help wipe this race of terrorism from this earth.

I might have to save words now for further posts on the same topic. May this be the first and last of such events this institute might ever witness.