Communal riots have become part and parcel of Indian social life. The birth pang of the country was on the throes of communal riots. The history of last sixty six years to a section of the Indian society, who has been on the receiving end of communal riots, is nothing but a history of wanton destruction of their lives and properties. The irony is, the mind of our countrymen has become immune to such development that there is little effort either from the government of the day or the civil groups to stop such well planned and well orchestrated communal mayhem in the nation that swears by the word peace, unity in diversity, peaceful coexistence and many more. With a heavy heart I have to say that today my city (district) Muzaffarnagar is facing communal riots which have claimed 31 lives (official figure). No doubt administration is working day and night to restore harmony but it the foremost duty of we the common man to come forward and dehydrate orchestrated politicalization of provoking violence from the society. We must remember the root cause of the communal violence is the politics in the name of religion. In this the political, social, economic agenda of vested interests are presented in the language of religion. The divisive politics in the name of religion begins by changing the paradigm of human understanding from the socio economic differences to religious one’s. The way out from this is very hard and a long struggle to restore the humanism of our society. We, people of different religious communities have a common heritage and our aspirations for better society are also common. What prevents our efforts for a better society is the hysteria created by religion based politics. I remember a couplet by Bashir Badar "LOG TOOT JAYTE HAI EK GHAR BANANE MEIN TUM TARAS NAHI KHATE BASTIYAN JALANE MEIN"
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:52:29 +0000
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