Tuesday, 17 September 2013

muzaffarabad issue

Communal violence have subsided in Muzaffarabad. 27 people are killed so far. Each community has blamed each other for inciting the violence. Political parties took the role of the jackal drinking blood dripping from the two fighting goats. These riots that erupt once in a while are not separate singular occurrences. It is like volcano; the matter is fuming and boiling inside; it just needs an immediate cause to burst out. Aligarh, Meerut, Moradabad and Muzaffarnagar are areas where religious harmony is particularly fragile. Government repeatedly fails to curb the issue at its sprouting stage, when a few tight actions could have sufficed; and it is addressed only when it spirals out of control. The striking point is that the patterns of every communal clash are more or less the same: each party claims the other to have drawn the first blood, but nobody knows at first hand  what exactly is the cause; everyone has heard about the issue from another one.; each party has its own version of the story and claims to have the right to be indignant.; the local newspapers take partisan stands and spread stories that foment violence.; the government uses the issue only to suit their election needs.; there may be a person intent to use the condition to shoot up his political career. This is a routine. 
Isn't there any permanent solution for the issue? E.M Forster suggests a solution: Tolerance. Ours is a society where complete harmony is impossible in the present scenario. We are a multi-cultural multi-lingual society living so tightly close to each other. We cant love all others. The only alternative left is to tolerate; which is the next best option. We can't eliminate everything we cant accept., we just need to put up with those. In the present day world, nothing is completely right, nothing is completely wrong as well. Sometimes, what seems as the direct opposite of right turns out to be the right one. Hitler himself has proved that complete extermination of a race is impossible. As long as violence lays dormant inside the society, disputes and clashes arise- it is not because some are Hindus and some are Muslims; it is not because some are Sunni and some are Shia; it is not because some are lower caste and some are higher caste; it is not because some are Blacks and some are Whites. It is because we are human beings and we need to cleanse ourselves by passing through all these stages.

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