I wrote this a while back when my friend called me up from back home, a night before 'the expected riot' over the Babri Mazjid issue.
Today being the eve of that day which might see bloodshed and brutality lying on baseless and ridiculous arguments lacking any sort of substance - i shudder. Tomorrow might laugh at our democracy and scrape off our masks of secularism to reveal the scars on the face of our country. While most truculently sadistic people in power act irresponsibly the country must learn from its past. Example - The September 24th editorial of Samna, Marathi newspaper of Shiv Sena, carried a heading that called upon Hindus to be prepared. The heading “Dhanush Tanun Thewa” means Get ready with the bow. The editorial also said, “We will not let the King of Aydohya lose.”
Thousands and thousands of our hindu and Muslim brothers have died in mindless attempts to protect their religion and we have mourned too many times to set cloth for another funeral ! Our society is immature and needs to understand that we are paying too high a price, every riot, to augment our tolerance levels which i believe we will ultimately achieve. Killing people is not the way to prove that your religion is at the top. It is only a way to show others how personally illiterate, shallow-minded and intellectually robbed you are. You show how you falsely try and connect with God for the sole purpose of securing a seat for the plane flying to Hell ! Whenever i come across any such fanatics i think their religion as inadequate tools which fail to keep them followers on the path of humanity.
I personally dont care about Ram's birthplace or Babri Mazjid. I dont care about who was born where or who built the mosque - Thats all history and it doesn't affect my life ! I care about the future, I care about my fellow Indians( even if they don't think like me). India needs to mellow down ! Its people need to take the Burkha off their faces and see that the kid they are killing because of religion would have no clue about Babur, Ram and was probably not even born in 1992 and surely was not alive in the 16th Century. India - i know you dont care but i personally wish that you impress me and the world tomorrow. Can i please wake up and be impressed - Please......Okay , Pretty Please !
