Mumbai attacks anniversary and media's unrelenting hype

I, as an Indian, feel deeply disgusted by media’s unrelenting hype around the Mumbai’s attack. It was, as per the media, the Indian 9/11 – comparing the intensity of attacks and global media attention given to the attacks equivalent to the WTC attacks in New York. While the attacks were indeed tragic, it feels so unfair to rest all the attention on one single event given that Mumbai has seen so many other attacks in last fifteen years. A quick search through internet gives us the following list:
12 March 1993 - Series of 13 bombs go off killing 257
6 December 2002 - Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 2
27 January 2003 - Bomb goes off on a bicycle in Vile Parle killing 1
14 March 2003 - Bomb goes off in a train in Mulund killing 10
28 July 2003 - Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar killing 4
25 August 2003 - Two Bombs go off in cars near the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar killing 50
11 July 2006 - Series of seven bombs go off in trains killing 209
26 November 2008 to 29 November 2008 - Coordinated series of attacks killing at least 172

As is seen, the maximum people were killed in the serial blasts in 1993 – the Mumbai attacks of previous year come at third place in terms of number of casualties but let alone the remembrance walks and media series of talk shows, articles, editorials and analysis, I have not seen even a single article in newspapers about the blasts on July 11, 2006 which was fondly named by Indian media in lines with the tradition set by US media as 7/11.
To me, it makes sense if Americans light candles, organize remembrance walks and build memorials for those victims because for them it was truly a shocking moment. America is very well protected against any terrorist attacks by vigilant intelligence agencies, honest and effective police force and above all a political will to effectively deal with any country or organization who even thinks of having malicious plans against America’s well-being. The 9/11 was a moment of shock for them, their invincible nation was attacked and it was something completely unthinkable for them.
In India, however, I have to shamefully admit there has been shameless addition of dates ever since the popular culture of putting dates as event reminders has been started by 9/11. There has been 12/6, 1/27, 3/14, 7/28, 8/25, 7/11 and the latest 11/26 – so many dates and so many casualties that I am sure, if God forbid any other blasts takes place that martyrs and victims of previous year’s Mumbai carnage (so-called 11/26) will be quietly forgotten and there will be another laser show on some other date to remember the latest victims. The problem in India is that latest terrorist attacks overshadow all the previous ones and there have been so many of them that media, politicians in particular and people in general are just happy to rub the latest wounds of public memory so as to gather maximum attention – which results in high TRP (thus revenue) for media and a larger vote bank for politicians.
The US, in contrast, has seen only one such vicious attack in decades – there has been no attack on US soil by foreign elements before and after 9/11. The American politicians, fire and police department and the intelligence agencies learnt their lessons after the 9/11 attacks and carefully improvised their operations to such an extent that there has not been even a single such repetition of 9/11. In India – particularly Mumbai, I am yet to see any effective disaster management plan even after two decades of terrorism. All I see are the laser shows, lighting of candles, special series on televisions, tough talks by politicians and Mumbai police brandishing their newly acquired AK47s.
This hype is a great injustice to the families and victims of previous attacks. It belittles the sacrifices of policemen, firemen and others who fought equally bravely against previous attacks and saved precious lives. For the sake of departed souls of 11/26 and all the other previous attacks media, politicians and others should immediately stop the crass commercialization of terrorist attacks.