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Why fear?
Posted by Unknown
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11:31 AM
Everywhere I see around me, I see fear. Fear of a future event - untoward incident. An incident, which has not yet taken place or has been confirmed. As far as I can see, it might not happen at all... at least I hope so, but everyone is scared. Scared of riots, bomb blasts, train burnings and chakka jaams.
And all this for what - for something happened 17 years back - Babri Masjid Demolition. With due respect to all religions, I do not see any point in all hue and cry related to Babri Masjid issue. I remember saying as a seven-year-old, "What is all that fuss about Ayodhya, mandir - masjid, mandir - masjid. Just demolish everything and make a damn park there for kids like us."
My parents laughed, but even today I do not think it was funny. On December 6, 1992, a mosque in Ayodhya, a religious city in North India, was destroyed by Hindu propagandists for it is believed to be erected upon the birthplace of Rama - a Hindu God. The demolition was immediately followed by riots in different parts of the nation.
The incident took a long time to cool down, in fact it never died down completely and comes up violently during every elections. Everything related to it makes news - verdicts, witnesses, anniversaries, committees, reports. But a forthcoming verdict, supposedly final, has created a sense fear among common Indians, which I cannot apprehend.
Yesterday, I read a news about an upcoming multistarrer movie being postponed for the fear of unrest in the country as a result of the Babri verdict. I felt strange, but the same evening my friend sent me an SMS, which plead friends to stand united on 24th September in the name of the nation. That message smelled fear, a threat, a mistrust of Indians on Indian Govt. and law and order authorities. Today morning, I saw an appeal by a religious sect to all their 'Hindu and Muslim brothers and sisters' to maintain peace and harmony on the eve of the final verdict.
But why? why do we need to plea, I mean isn't it understood that we all have been fed up of stupid fight over a peace of land and have grown over and can't imagine ourselves being puppets of greedy propagandists, who had never or will ever have people's welfare in mind. And in case we have not, it's high time we should be.
Please leave your comments on how you feel about Babri verdict?
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And all this for what - for something happened 17 years back - Babri Masjid Demolition. With due respect to all religions, I do not see any point in all hue and cry related to Babri Masjid issue. I remember saying as a seven-year-old, "What is all that fuss about Ayodhya, mandir - masjid, mandir - masjid. Just demolish everything and make a damn park there for kids like us."
My parents laughed, but even today I do not think it was funny. On December 6, 1992, a mosque in Ayodhya, a religious city in North India, was destroyed by Hindu propagandists for it is believed to be erected upon the birthplace of Rama - a Hindu God. The demolition was immediately followed by riots in different parts of the nation.
The incident took a long time to cool down, in fact it never died down completely and comes up violently during every elections. Everything related to it makes news - verdicts, witnesses, anniversaries, committees, reports. But a forthcoming verdict, supposedly final, has created a sense fear among common Indians, which I cannot apprehend.
Yesterday, I read a news about an upcoming multistarrer movie being postponed for the fear of unrest in the country as a result of the Babri verdict. I felt strange, but the same evening my friend sent me an SMS, which plead friends to stand united on 24th September in the name of the nation. That message smelled fear, a threat, a mistrust of Indians on Indian Govt. and law and order authorities. Today morning, I saw an appeal by a religious sect to all their 'Hindu and Muslim brothers and sisters' to maintain peace and harmony on the eve of the final verdict.
But why? why do we need to plea, I mean isn't it understood that we all have been fed up of stupid fight over a peace of land and have grown over and can't imagine ourselves being puppets of greedy propagandists, who had never or will ever have people's welfare in mind. And in case we have not, it's high time we should be.
Please leave your comments on how you feel about Babri verdict?
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