I am delighted to read this note in "The Hindu" Editorial today that came as a balm to a hurt soul from watching the events unfolding in Kashmir, driven by politically coloured patriotism by a party who's desperately seeking means and methods to regain their lost position, lost primarily owing to the same methodologies they exercised earlier.What was it, other than a provocative and insensitive agenda, to hoist a flag in the center of a region that every citizen of India know as sensitive given its history? Why rub salt on the wound, than join the nurses who are treating the wound to heal them and integrate to a society where they belong to?
Has Advani Ji lost complete sense of the destruction he caused by one 'yatra' that tore the center of an otherwise harmonious country that boasted unity in diversity? Did he not have even a little remorse for the hundreds of men and women massacred as a consequence of his "Rath Yatra? How many more lives is he and his party-men willing to see lost in his path to gaining power in parliament? Are there no other genuine causes he can fight for, than such provocative-and wickedly-motivated exercises that is again and again throwing India and Indians years behind in their growth - physically and intellectually? When will they realize the need to unite, than disintegrate the country further?
How many more hands do you like to see pleading to stop this communally polarizing politics, and work on an agenda that will improve the lives of our countrymen, and our country?
It calms my soul when I read the Editorial of The Hindu this morning, because it reassures me that there are men and women in India - of all sections of faith and believes in our society - who are willing to, and can, identify the wolves in sheep skin, herding along with the shepherds working hard to develop our nation.
Educated you all are; how illiterate you remain still!!!
Shahir
Jan 27, 2011
