India and Communal Riots...

Few days back I watched Parzania with my engg time friends …though I wasn’t in mood of watching any serious movie but its not easy to get tickets of any new English flick or any good romantic movie on Saturdays in Pune… and all of us are lazy enough to call up in morning for tele booking .. So having no other option left to pass time till 11 in night we entered E-Square.. One of ma friend was like “Now this z the best thing we could do before going to a disc.. Can’t we go to any where else??” but thanks to Ms NO.. She wasn’t in mood to travel…Ms NO is girlfriend of one of my friend…she has got only one reply for any damn question. NO…….

Wanna have burger?? NO… its not good here

How about coffee in Mac D? NO… they serve bournvita in cup of coffee

Pizza?? NO… Pizza in Pune sux!!

You think I am exaggerating?? But I am not…she just knows one word…NO.. at least every sentence of hers starts with a NO.. you could be thinking …How there relation started if she replies just in NO…so there is a story behind the only YES of her life.. My friend is a shy guy so straight forward proposal was out of the question.. anyhow he managed her e-mail id.. mailed her some 10-12 times asking her for a date… told her where he used to stand in canteen of their office to get a glimpse of her.. and other regular flirting stuffs.. but de reply he always got was just a simple NO… Now you must be thinking whats strange in this… this is the most probable reply from any gal…but strange is the logic why she accepted her proposal… guy is 6+ with smart looks and decent demeanor …he has got a good reputation in their company.. many of her friends are over him…but all this wasn’t the reason she said the only YES of her life.. she accepted her proposal as he was the first person to wish her HAPPY BUDDAY …now what kinda logic is this I wasn’t able to understand but she very proudly narrates their love story and then the turning point HAPPY BUDDAY…what if the poor guy gets late by few seconds.. What if he felt like going to loo at 12??

Yeah.. sorry from diverting from the topic.. So Ms NO’s another NO made us to watch Parzania .. Somehow I feel most of the right decisions of mine are made after having no other option left.. this is the tragedy of my life.. I always want to do things as I wish to but most of the times I end up doing something else.. something I never wished to… engineering …mba …all of my old affairs…I never wanted to get myself involved in any of them.. So I have changed my view towards looking at things …now I believe in everything happens for a good reason.. Coming back to the movie…

I had already written in my previous entries.. I don’t like narrating stories or giving my expert reviews on movies…as I like most of the movies and I don’t watch movies for finding loose ends or appreciating the story line or direction but still there are movies which left an impact…Parzania was one of them..

Gujarat Riots

Godhra witnessed one of the brutal acts of humanity in Gandhi’s very own state Gujarat. Violence first started with burning a train compartment at Godhra station killing 58 Hindus… so called REASON: This particular incident was instigated by a Muslim mob in retaliation for the Hindus expressing their support for a Ram Mandir in ram janmabhoomi.( Is this reason so intense that one can burn 58 innocent souls alive???)

Post effect:

The images from the train burning were broadcast in print as well as the electronic media, especially in local Gujarati language newspapers. The Chief Minister of the BJP ruled state, Narendra Modi ordered a state funeral for the deceased in the train burning incident. The timings of the arrival of the dead bodies to the state capital Ahmedabad were advertised on the radio may have contributed to a very large turnout of people in an already charged atmosphere. Modi blamed the Pakistani secret service Inter Services Intelligence behind the incident. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad issued a call for a peaceful statewide bandh on February 28, 2002. That bandh was later supported by the ruling BJP government.

Attacks on Muslims

A senior member of the BJP said that for two days the party told its cadres "you can settle your account." By that, he meant take revenge for the attack on a train by a Muslim mob, which sparked off the violence in Ahmedabad and elsewhere in the state. Most of the press reported that the police did nothing to stop the violence in the early days. In one of the camps where some of the tens of thousands of Muslim refugees fleeing from the clashes were living, refugees said time and time again that the police had taken part in the rioting. Some refugees also alleged that BJP legislators had been involved too.Police inaction and BJP encouragement might account for the size of the mobs but it doesn't explain their barbarity, particularly raping women and burning the victims.

Nobody had any explanation for that.

Attacks on Hindus

In September 2002, at least 29 people were killed when suspected Islamic fundamentalist gunmen engaged in the Akshardham Temple attack in the city of Gandhinagar in Gujarat. The Pakistani ISI and Islamic terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba were accused of supporting the terrorists, but they have denied this accusation.Over ten thousand Hindus were made homeless as a result of the Gujarat violence. In several residential areas, Hindus were targeted following calls for retaliation. After looting the Hindu homes, they threw kerosene on the roofs and ignited their houses. According to one Hindu who lived through the violence.

Role of Government and Police

The Modi led state government was reprimanded at various levels including the National Parliament, Supreme Court and internationally. It was observed that the Gujarat government referred to the death of 58 people in the Godhra train episode as carnage while those post Godhra events, where at least 1000 perished were referred to as disturbances seen as an effort to pass on the subsequent deaths as a natural reaction to Godhra Train incident.

Casualties-

Gujarati Muslims killed : 790 dead

Gujarati Hindus killed : 254 dead

Aftermath

The Indian government's compensation policies offered 200,000 rupees for families with dead members on the train and 100,000 rupees for families who had relatives die in the riots.

But can any sum of money turn back the time?? we all know what answer z…Those orphans are never going to see de faces of their parents again…those widows ‘ll never be able to live the normal life.. Those mothers ‘ll never be able to kiss the forehead of the ones they’ve loved most in their life… they all ‘ll feel equal pain irrespective of the language of their prayers ..Unlike the opposite directions they face while remembering their gods they ‘ll feel same direction of sorrow…

Its not just Gujarat riots or Anti Sikh riots of 1984 or Mumbai bomb blasts of 1993 and 2006…we have every single time proved how faithful are we for our religion.. but what we every time forgets is we are human first.. and we belong to any religion only if we can call ourselves human.. Dogs and cats don’t have any religion.. pardon me!! for the wrong comparison.. even dogs and cats are better than us they don’t ask question before fighting … “whether that dog’s name is tommy singh or tommy khan?”

Mahatma Gandhi, father of our nation derived great moral strength from Bhagavad gita, which is evident in his words:

"The Geeta is the universal mother. I find a solace in the Bhagavadgeeta that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. When disappointment stares me in the face and all alone I see not one ray of light, I go back to the Bhagavad Gita. I find a verse here and a verse there, and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming tragedies - and my life has been full of external tragedies - and if they have left no visible or indelible scar on me, I owe it all to the teaching of Bhagavad Gita."

Gandhi jee could have found inspiration in Gita for fighting every single problem he encountered in his life but in any of the verses he couldn’t have got a mildest hint for hating other religions.

Muhammad often retreated to Mount Hira near Mecca. Islamic tradition holds that the angel Gabriel began communicating with him here in the year 610 and commanded Muhammad to recite the following verses:

Proclaim! (or read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created- Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood: Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful,- He Who taught (the use of) the pen,- Taught man that which he knew not.

Only ALMIGHTY is creator in any religion…then who are we to destroy his most beautiful creation…

I heard few of my Hindu friends favoring the mob attack on Muslims after Godhra incident as it was necessary to redeem the pride of Hindus…same feeling was of few Muslims after the attacks on a Muslim majority Chawl in Mumbai…then happened Mumbai Bomb Blasts of 93…leaving few hundred corpses of both the religions…but 2 things were common in all of ‘em…they all were INDIANS and COMMON MEN…Neither the politicians were killed nor does the riches gt injured…. Does these kind of attacks are planned by common men of any religion??? What do you expect from someone who doesn’t even have time to come out of the web of their own problems…they are just sufferers irrespective of the religion they follow…

We all must have recited these lines many times…

Jana gana mana adhinayaka, jaya he
Bharata bhagya vidhata.
Punjab Sindh Gujarat Maratha
Dravida Utkala Banga
Vindhya Himachal Yamuna Ganga
Uchchhala Jaladhi taranga.
Tava shubha name jage,
Tava shubha ashisha mage,
Gahe tava jaya gatha,
Jana gana mangala dayaka jaya he
Bharata bhagya vidhata.
Jaya he, Jaya he, Jaya he,
Jaya jaya jaya, jaya he!

What does these lines means?? Why did we used to recite these lines every morning in our school time?? Since school days we are taught INDIA is our mother land..but its not just about blindly repeating these lines.. have you ever gave a thought over the message?? I have even met people who don’t know our mother tongue properly.. so for those brothers n sisters of mine…This time just don’t read National Anthem of yours but try to feel the energy generated by the most pious lines I’ve ever gone through…

Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,
dispenser of India's destiny.
Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, the Maratha country,
in the Dravida country, Utkala (Orissa) and Bengal;
It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas,
it mingles in the rhapsodies of the pure waters Jamuna and the Ganges.
They chant only thy name,
they seek only thy blessings,
They sing only thy praise.
The saving of all people waits in thy hand,
thou dispenser of India's destiny.
Victory, Victory, Victory, Victory to thee.

Thnx to wikipedia for few valuable informations..