This violence is a side effect of our pseudoseculrism. As long as we, as a nation, are concerned about religion and caste, such violence is an inevitable outcome. As long as we cannot truely and honestly separate the state from the religion, we cannot really fight terrorism. The simple way out is to make religion and caste, a strictly private affair and punish those who cross the limits set by the state. Politics mixed with religion is more venomous than a king cobra's bite. I wonder what these octogenarian leaders gain by spending so much of their life energy on creating and nurturing vote banks - do not they ever think of their own death, which is inevitable?
