It was about quarter past 11pm when I got the first phone call from Mumbai from a close friend informing me about the attacks at Cafe Leopold, CST Stations and then at the beautiful Taj Mahal and the Oberoi Trident. All this while I was in a state of bliss being in my beutiful homecity of Guwahati amidst family and friends.
I didn't know how to react to the terrible tragedy and thought that being a quizzard and having a blog on quiz how about having some gyaan sharing with the readers of this blog on one of the first innovative counter terrorism measure ever to be adopted that actually worked very effectively.
It was in Greece and was formulated by the women of Greece led by Lysistrata. She got together the women of Sparta, Corinth and Boeotia (all warring Greek provinces)and swore them to withold sex from their husbands who were all at war against one another. The genesis of this amusing counter terrorism measure stems from the fact that till then Greek men used to believe that a Greek women has no self-restraint when it came to matters of sex and wine. The women on the other hand thought that the men were very stupid in their decision of having war all the time. The stand was war is an injustice thrust on women only since a men will never have problem of finding another woman as wife but for women as they grow old it will be very difficult to get a bew husband.
The men attempted to fight this resolve of their women but after about a month of futile attempts the men had to give in to the demands of the women. The men started experiencing physical pain from lack of sex.They quickly settle peace negotiations between the various provinces. Lysistrata declares the sex feud over and allows the women to return home with their husbands.
This entire Greek episode has beeen celebrated in the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes and in quizzing vocabulary is generally referred to as the Lysistrata Phenomenon. I am sure RGV can do up a bit of reading on the same to get further inspired with his next project on terrorism along with his already done groundwork of taking a tour of the Taj.
While such innovative counter terroriam may not play any role in the realm of modern day terrorism or mercinaries but the thought that I am trying to put forth is that our security / intelligence agencies needs to be very innovative in dealing with modern day sophisticated terrorist or mercinary. It is not about pumping in money in beefing up our security systems its about thinking one step ahead of these criminals all the time so that effective counter measures can be implemented swiftly whenever such a situation ever arise.
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