So a couple of days back I overheard a conversation between two men about the Godhra riots. One of them said that the victims of the riots should forget what happened and move on now. No point in whining about it. As it is their departed loved ones are not going to come back. Anyway its going to take ages with all the court cases. They should rather celebrate the fact that Gujarat has seen such astonishing development economy and infrastructure wise. The CM has done so much for the state and blah blah blah. (I stopped listening after "state")
Apparently, its not just some middle-aged men, but many of whom I know (mostly students of my age) have the same opinion. I usually avoid arguing with them. There's no particular reason but just that I'm too lazy to prove them wrong by coming up with a spontaneous witty comeback. But not enough lazy to write a blog post.
Whoever thinks the victims of the Godhra riots should forget about the justice seeking affair(Justice? LOL) and join the "All hail the holy Gujjuland development" bandwagon, I just have one thing to say. Let me snatch away your blackberrys and iphones, smash them into pieces in front of your eyes. Buy you a dinner and ask you to forget about it since the damage is irreparable anyway. Let me see if you'd love to forgive me and forget about your phone.
You cannot compare a human-being to an object. After said that I understand what you are trying to convey.
ReplyDeletePeople will never understand loss until they lose someone who is dear to them in such violent way.I do feel that a crowd lose empathy on their way to life.
Skumar, I'm not comparing anything with anything, just merely pointing out the fact that if one cannot stand damage to his object, he cannot justify tolerating injustice and violence to a human being. Also, thanks :)
DeleteThanks :)
ReplyDeleteI've never been able to understand forgetting. Forgiving, sure.
ReplyDeleteForgetting is... easy. And easy things are too much work eventually. (In the spirit of full disclosure, however, still getting over the trauma of a phone call I once made to a girl I liked in school for the ostensible purpose of asking for the homework.)
But this raises another point... Modi is probably going to be the next PM of this country. High possibility of corruption vs low possibility of genocide. I don't know how you decide on that.
I agree. Forgetting is never easy! Damn you, Akhil. Really?! :P
ReplyDeleteJust as we Sikhs are waiting for the justice in 1984 anti sikh riots.
ReplyDeleteEvery riots was the result of their own execution if we go into the basis of find the root cause of it and every root cause diagnosed had the possible solution without jumping into the need of torching a riot, occurance of riots conveys that it was not address properly by public servants. Whether it was godhra riots or any other riots when one community crosses their limit to vent anger, other community has to counteract it. If we confined ourselves to our good work, riots like genocidal acts won't come into picture as popular quote says "with great power comes great responsibility". On your subject "forgive or forget" I would say "Pre-& Post Godhra riots should remain in our history books preserved in a truthful manner so that they will know what their ancestors did and this is what they don't have to repeat in their century".
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