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All 'right' thinking individuals hope that the guilty are punished for the most unfortunate incident in the history of free India. Today is the 17th anniversary of Babari mosque demolition. The people were mobilized on an unprecedented scale in the name of religion. BJP came into power and ruled the country. But the same BJP is fighting for its survival. Invoking Rama is no longer proving successful. Can we assume that people have grown up. But then memories of Godhara riots comes haunting. Are the days of mobilizing people in the name of a religion over ? Do people realize that the religion is misused to befool them again and again ?
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religion is the biggest industry in the world,bigger even then arms and pharmaceuticals and it is the oldest as well..'Opium' indeed it is as rationality goes for a six whenever the term GOD is invoked.Disappointing is, the sympathy for murderers and justification for tit for tat violence even amongst the intelligentsia.Even one person killed,of whichever community,in the name of..whatever..is 1 person too many.The challenge is to prove that we are not free for all anarchic country and justice is not only for high and mighty..
religion is one of the biggest identity one can have...
thus the mobilization on this issue has been since time immortal...
ghazni, gouri, and upto certain extent even Ashoka... they all used religion as a tool to rule...
what i want to convey is the fact that people search for identity..religion is there available free without cost...
you are right saying that even if it is one it is too many...
we need to search the solution...
what is there which can be a bigger identity than religion... love for mother land???
there can be many others...keep on searching...we need to impart this to human kind...
nothing against people searching for an identity..many spend their lives and dont have the answer till the end of it.. the point raised here is of justice,, 'The idea of justice' as Dr.Sen put it , to give each and every individual a sense of belongingness and sense of security.Democracies are not hegemonic kingdoms and writ of violent few cannot be allowed to dictate terms.The challenge is for the civil society to prove that power can flow from somewhere apart from 'barrel of the gun'..
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