Dear Uma: Decisions made long ago are coming to bite us. We should have from the beginning promoted India as one country with ONE set of laws with both legal and REAL equality for all. Before that India should NEVER have allowed partition. These are my views, but most people might not agree. It is now for people who can vote(I am not one of them) to vote firm burt secular people into office. Firm to nip terrorism at the bud and secular to treat all citizens as Equal under the law.

Rgds, Girdhar

WL: Thank you for visiting. The only thing we can do from abroad is to wish India well and NOT fund any fundamentalist organizations, Hindu, Muslim or Sikh to destabilize India.
Rgds, Girdhar

Sad but..Well expressed and inspirational write..I hope we can do other than this comments..but we really don't know what ? and how to do..

Girdhar Gopalji,

Why is this happening?  Why?  To satisfy the sadistic pleasure of some insane people?  Sometimes I wonder whether it is merely for religion or for the pleasure they get in mass genocide.  You have done a commendable job in presenting this  ..Uma 

Naval: Agreed that individuals and groups project hate. It is for civilized society to put down this hate  put down actions so generated.
Thank you for your commendation.
Rgds, Girdhar

To Girdhar Gopal jee,

Since the primitive age, the violence, or the urge to exercise physical force so as to cause injury or damage to others' person or property, is embedded in human mind. This vilence can be set free for action by hate-game played through so-called groups created by us: the religious groups, the groups based on skin-colour, and so on. And very offten these groups find reasons to fight with each other.

There is only one way to eradicate this violence. We have to fill the hearts of the people with compassion. And that can be done by a Buddha or Mahavir. it can not be done by any normal human being.

Naval Langa 

Thank you PBS: Yes there are several charlatans in religion that spread their own  brand of hate. Thanks falso for your commendation.
Rgds, Girdhar

Nice poem!

I was wondering, the basic teaching of every religion is love. When that is so, how come there are so many divisions within the religions itself. It's sheer lust for power. Politics and religion are the last refuges of scoundrels. I guess these teachers and interpreters need to be examined. It's high time we had proper education for religious teachers! Politicians are beyond redemption, I guess.

Thank you for your thoughts, Blizzard. The waste of it all appals me.
Rgds, Girdhar

Giridhar,

Liked this one a lot. You have put forth your thoughts on the carnage so well . It is indeed disheartening to see what goes on.. when there is so much hatred in the name of religion and such.  In a a secular nation like ours it does need weeding out...