India is going through a lot of turmoil these days!. Starting from natural calamities to human made calamities. Where one part of the country is announcing droughts the other part is flooded...and thats when we have different religious communities rioting for god knows what-is it power or land or sovereignty?
In Assam we saw floods washing away so many districts rendering millions homeless. We see so many people leaving their homes looking for a higher land, we see people neck dip in water trying to save themselves searching for a place to stay. Do we know which religion they belong to? Does the rain gods show its fury to any religion in particular. The answer I am sure is No......
Isn't this the time when we all should come together for the people of assam and the other flood affected areas instead of fighting for someone's self. Riots are nothing but clash of ideas which comes in the disguise of religion usually or at times in the name of power and sovereignty.
The riots yesterday in MUMBAI proved this one more time. The concerned who organized the march in favor of the Muslims are of the opinion that they expected a turn around of 1000-1500 but it turned out to be more than 50000. Are we living a life of ignorance. Such news spreads like fire and it has also been found that it was spread using SMS. Two people died, a few policemen are fighting with death, and hundreds of vehicles vandalized. Would this bring peace in ASSAM or would this give food to the affected people in ASSAM who were bound to flee for the floods first and now the riots. There are hundreds who are terrified to re turn to their own land. This reminds of the Singur mishap with the TATA factory where we found people of the same village fearing to go back to their own lands and homes.
When we Indians will learn the need of the hour. When we would learn to leave in peace and harmony. During our school days we used to write essays on democracy, unity in diversity etc :are this going to stay as essays only to be penned in different words by school goers or we are going to do something about this. I feel like asking these rioters sometimes , Have they ever written or heard of these essays in their school life which ever language it might be? Are all rioters illiterates, ignorant?
This reminds me the lines of late Indian freedom fighter and poet , KABI NAZRUL ISLAM- eki brinte duti kusum...meaning two flowers on one stalk. He was referring to the Hindus and Muslims as two flowers on the same stalk. Would this remain as a dream of the famous poet or we will see the light one day?
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