“Had Sardarji Lived………”

Harsh Mander’s (The Hindu Sunday Magazine dt. 22.11.2009) detailed depiction of a gory violence and massacre let loose in the life of Mrs. Lachmi Kaur by the so called sympathizers and satans in the wake of Indira Gandhi’s assassination on all turbaned Sardars of Sikh Community especially in Delhi is indeed heart-rending and making our blood boil. What a wreck man can play in the name of religion? When the titans fight on the basis of beliefs and principles, not only the titans loose their lives, but hundreds of their followers and thousands of innocent civilians and citizens belonging to a cult, religion or region too are done to death mercilessly. Man for a man or a woman is understandable although per se reprehensible but thousands of individuals for a man or a woman reflects the brutality of a section or a group. Who is to and how to teach them a sense of propriety or wisdom? So-called god-men and god-women should take up such responsibilities for good conduct and reasonable restriction on the man’s evil actions. Every religion speaks of quality of innate man’s good behaviour, peaceful co-existence and harmonious brotherhood but some of its followers known for bigotry and fundamentalism indulge in acts of intolerance towards different outlooks and normal dissent in expression and try to show their supremacy in thought and action through violent means. Man-made disasters are worse than natural disasters which ipso facto do take a toll in great numbers from time to time. Man manifests both good and evil nature in mind and body in different proportions. It is the duty of the society and its citizens to inculcate and instigate more of good forces and suppress and subjugate the evil ones promptly and periodically for the good and orderly life of the nation. Anti-Sikh riots and Anti-Muslim retributions need to be studied and requisite social action mooted by the will-wishers of India’s secular democracy so that we prove ourselves worthy of being rated as intellectuals and civilized human beings of 21st century unlike our ancestors in B.C. and the first millennium in A.D.

Note: This Article is sent to the newspaper 'The Hindu'