I was not here in India when it happened, but I watched it on television. I saw the Babri Mosque being razed to the ground by the primates of the Sangh Parivar. All around me was complete silence, the room had at least fifteen to twenty people all huddled around the tube watching BBC. Every one in the room that day had one thing to say when they recovered from the momentary shock, we all agreed that 'that' should not have happened. That things will not be the same again, and we will have no peace now that these marauding idiots have blackened our name. Well truly enough, we have had to pay, and dearly for our own mistakes, mistakes of varying degrees of seriousness, but mistakes nonetheless. Right from supporting those neanderthals outright, to being silent watchers, to the other extreme of accusing the other side of provoking these barbaric acts just because we didn't have the courage to face the truth and speak up. Then the rest is history, people rewarded with t...
The Elections are right round the corner, and it does worry me. I am worried about the future for me and my folks. I am worried that the communal BJP will regurgitate the venomous issues it so loves to bring up every time it feels threatened by extinction, which they do all the time. so they will stir the communal cauldron before the plebiscite to hopefully gain some votes. then they will stir it again because they have lost miserably. then they will stir it to give vent to their frustration, and then again to let their supporters and sympathizers know they are still a force worth backing. then they will stir it to make their presence felt. and then again will stir for no reason at all. and then again to reassure themselves that they are capable of causing trouble. and then they will stir it because that's the the only thing they are good at. and then again just out of habit. So you see, I could go on and on jotting down the innumerable reasons they will come up with b...