Whom to blame ?
by apsara on Aug 05, 2008 10:11 AM
The past few days, the newspapers, blogs, and editorials have talked about the recent terrorism in india. That has left me with an incomplete feeling. People, who do read these articles, perhaps are not even remotely associated with the “attacking”, but are definitely the ones “attacked”. Every one of us is a victim because the blasts, the terror, have ripped us of our peace in more than one ways. We are the victims and the word “victims” haunts. Its haunts because a leaves a feeling of helplessness, and lack of hope within. And it haunts because it’s us who are to be blamed.
We talk of moral values, how we shouldn’t fight for religion, or God, or caste or anything for that matter. We talk about what “they” have done, and how “they” shouldn’t have. And we rationalize, and talk diplomatically; we say “we shouldn’t fight like this”, we say “ we should respect humanity” , we say “the innocent shouldn’t suffer”. But are you and me the ones who went around bombing the nation? Then why unite our names with those who don’t belong to us, those who have no race creed or religion? Those ,who should lose all empathy and be mercilessly punished. But until then, lets talk about “us”. We are equally to be blamed, if we live in fear. The need of the hour, is “unity”. As idealistic as this sounds, there is nothing better to combat the power of terrorism, except t
