It won't be out of place to mention here that in our country, incidents of this nature have started to fall into a pattern now. A blast, media coverage reaching dizzying heights, red alerts, public outrage, politicians cutting across party lines condemning the act, the government blaming whosoever it wants to blame, a possible probe ordered, media coverage dwindles, incident fades from public memory and another blast. Some more people reduced to statistics.
Why is that these incidents keep repeating with an alarming frequency? Why are our sensitive establishments being targeted frequently? Why are more and more people falling victims to these acts of terror? After all no religion teaches the use of destruction wreaking weapons for the attainment of political or any other means. Increasingly, however, terrorists are resorting to attacking these sensitive places. Akshardham, Ayodhya, and National Science Institute serve as a grim reminder of the acts of violence against a nation whose very foundation is non-violent.
The terrorists know that targeting religious institutions will enrage the entire country and there might be possible communal fallout. This is exactly why they will keep targeting these places. And much as we would like to ignore it and continue to live in our small little worlds, there is no running away from it. The primary aim of these blasts is to create fissures in our social fabric, to make us forget sense and come out in the open against each other. And for this very reason we need to remain united in our effort to sustain these incidents, psychologically and morally. An attack on a religious establishment is a ploy of the most evil sort.
Incidents like these only underline the fact that the diverse unified image of India is an eyesore for many a people. The intent of the enemy is obvious. It wants to segregate the nation on the lines of religion.
In these testing times let's not give the enemy more ammunition to target us with. Let's not give the terrorists the chance they are desperately looking for. I might sound foolishly idealistic and naïve but the last thing I want to see is an Indian baying for the blood of another Indian, a situation where someone's circumcision determines the person's lifespan and which mob hacks the person to death.
May God give us all the strength to face this crisis...Amen. first published:March 07, 2006, 21:46 ISTlast updated:March 07, 2006, 21:46 IST
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I write this as unfortunate events unfold in the historic city of Varanasi. The multiple blasts in Varanasi, at the railway station and the Sankat Mochan temple have rattled the entire nation. At least twenty people have been reduced to statistics in government records and scores have been injured. An entire nation is outraged and is in a state of red alert. It is not clear as to who is responsible for the ghastly act but whosoever it is, doesn't want us to live in peace. Only a filthy entity can carry out such an appalling act and needless to say, the act is condemnable in the strongest of words.
It won't be out of place to mention here that in our country, incidents of this nature have started to fall into a pattern now. A blast, media coverage reaching dizzying heights, red alerts, public outrage, politicians cutting across party lines condemning the act, the government blaming whosoever it wants to blame, a possible probe ordered, media coverage dwindles, incident fades from public memory and another blast. Some more people reduced to statistics.
Why is that these incidents keep repeating with an alarming frequency? Why are our sensitive establishments being targeted frequently? Why are more and more people falling victims to these acts of terror? After all no religion teaches the use of destruction wreaking weapons for the attainment of political or any other means. Increasingly, however, terrorists are resorting to attacking these sensitive places. Akshardham, Ayodhya, and National Science Institute serve as a grim reminder of the acts of violence against a nation whose very foundation is non-violent.
The terrorists know that targeting religious institutions will enrage the entire country and there might be possible communal fallout. This is exactly why they will keep targeting these places. And much as we would like to ignore it and continue to live in our small little worlds, there is no running away from it. The primary aim of these blasts is to create fissures in our social fabric, to make us forget sense and come out in the open against each other. And for this very reason we need to remain united in our effort to sustain these incidents, psychologically and morally. An attack on a religious establishment is a ploy of the most evil sort.
Incidents like these only underline the fact that the diverse unified image of India is an eyesore for many a people. The intent of the enemy is obvious. It wants to segregate the nation on the lines of religion.
In these testing times let's not give the enemy more ammunition to target us with. Let's not give the terrorists the chance they are desperately looking for. I might sound foolishly idealistic and naïve but the last thing I want to see is an Indian baying for the blood of another Indian, a situation where someone's circumcision determines the person's lifespan and which mob hacks the person to death.
May God give us all the strength to face this crisis...Amen.
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