Sunday, January 21, 2007

The lost city

Fire! blood! arson!! weapons! a city torn apart by violence that had no reason to trigger, no reason to continue, no reason to kill!! where??? Kashmir? Ayodhya? Gujarat? no folks! bangalore yes u heard it right BANGALORE!!! pensioners paradise, the place that was hailed for its tolerant ways and peaceful co existence! it all sounds a farce, a bloody dream of despair, my city is no more safe! my city is no more a dwelling place of the by two brotherhood, my city i hate to say is mine and yet so alien in the ugly face of violence!!! just in my neighbourhood, about few kilometers away, today,
3 buses burnt, 22 injured in police firing, 3 autos burnt, 1 police constable critical and a 12 yr old boy DEAD!!
DEAD!!! DEAD!!! yes DEAD!!!
A 12 yr old boy... innocent, unaware, carefree, he must have just casually cycled down the empty road whistling his merry tune of freedom and joy, he mustve wanted to breathe a wisp of free air before going back to school to face another boring monday morning, but all the joy, the freedom the innocence now lies wrapped in a white shroud beside his charred bicycle , shrivelled and still shivering with the fright of those icy hands of violence that slashed him to death. who is This little boy who lies there? ya he is probably an answer to the search and the struggle of proponents of love and brotherhood of hindutva and islam.
The whole thing started off as a protest in bangalore east to the killing of most reverend mr.saddam hussain (saddam who? dont u know that mahatma who saved his race from hunger and strife or better described a protector king who led his country to peace) so my group of stauch human rights activists as they begged to call themselves take out this protest against the inhuman trial and hanging of the great humanitarian Mr.Hussain, then on the way to the grand mass gathering, they pluck a few limbs of passers by, burn a few buses, molest a few women, afterall they had to appease the cause of justice and sacrifice the aforesaid to the sacrificail fire of justice for all!! , that done they also burn a stary flag in saffron that probably hindered their vision during their march, Wakes up the hindu soldier... they injured human limbs i pardoned, they burnt and arsoned civilians thats pardoned too but how can they burn the most precious piece of coloured cloth, surely that deserves a hit back!! that deserves a call to all ye faithful to come together and show the might of our religously righteous self!!! We will build that temple there even if it means we are snatching away homes of ppl living there, we will show them our resolve even if it means break their very lives!!! The peace loving other community gathers to address its people and as a part of the ritual... burn, arson and kill , in the name of the holy ram!! wow!
Behold my bretheren of both faiths and the few others who belonged to neither!!! Well done!! u have eastablished the will of god over human corpses! you have proven the might of justice over fresh and free flowing blood!! you have done justice to a dead president by killing a few others and sending them to give him company, you have established a legion of limbless people to build his temple of pride bravo!!! my country men bravo!!!
But where the heck do i find sleep cos each time i close my eyes i can only see a 12 year old boy whose charred cycle lies beside his mutilated body. long live YOUR GOD OF HONouR MAY HIS KINGDOM ACTUALLY COME!!


a first hand video coverage by cnn-ibn
http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/31760/tension-runs-high-in-blore-city.html

7 comments:

Krishnamurthi Balaji said...

Hi Saranya,
The thought and feelings are well brought out; rather, any reader of this would feel that his/her own feelings have taken birth here!

But explain: Do you feel that dishonouring the flag (the so called piece of saffron cloth) is much more furious than killing the brethern community?

Ree said...

This world seems to operate in the most unexplained of ways...and there never are right answers.
wrong answers...well, apenty.
flag or man, what caused the arson was the same animal instinct, wasnt it balaji?

angelofdusk said...

i agree reema, animal instinct is still a better word, even animals kill only for prey. there's a purpose but here the very purpose or the lack of it is the flaw

Me Thinks.. said...

written about spoken abt..anger, more anger, some more anger, disgust, you blog I comment, i get back to exams you get back to yours...
we move on..time goes by..
but what doesn change is the twelve year old boy, mutilated body, dead and gone..
hindu? muslim? no one knows..
his identity...just a twelve year old boy?
sleepless nites some more to come...
but what are we doing? what can we do?
can we do anything? ever???

INSTINCT said...

we can do... anything and everything.. a Japanese saying says.. "if you cant do it, then no one can - because nothing is impossible"

why is it that finding time for violence is more easier than finding time for peace? ridiculous but true. Angel of the Lord has it all written that we can never live in peace. we bring the curse upon ourselves. only we can change it. with love and peace.

nice article and thought there ANGEL!

Sh'shank said...

pointless!!!
answers have become extinct

Aditya said...

True Saranya. Whether it be Bangalore or Babri, as long as there are people with identity crises so strong that they put it ahead of humanity, what do we have left but anguish!!
There is hope however. The future is a peaceful place.