Musings

The Liberhan report is out and it points fingers at the top BJP leadership being responsible for the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992. It further states the inaction of the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Kalyan singh to be one of the main culprits of the demolition exercise. What is more interesting is that it has named the BJP's top 3 leaders (Vajpayee, Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi) as 'pseudo-moderates' of this demolition. Well, the report has no new findings. I think, after 17 years of the act, many of us know mostly what is given in the report and many knew the involvement of the BJP/RSS and other Hindu groups in this activity. What does this report submission mean to the country now? Well, this doesn't bring in the communal harmony into the region and it doesn't aim at resolving the issue too. All it will help in is to get the parliament hours to discuss this issue and make the citizens look like a fool. It is one of the best tricks p...

Terrorism. This is the latest menace that is hurting India now. Just taking stock of the events that happened over this year, it gives a clue on how entrenched terrorism has become in this part of the world. According to me, terrorism has no caste, religion or any other 'community' association, it is quite far from that. The only intention is to menace people into insecurity. ie., there are no 'Islamic terrorist' or 'Hindu terrorist', they are just merely 'terrorist'. Btw, what do these terrorist want by killing tens or hundreds of innocents? What is the point they are trying to prove? If their sole aim is to divide the India, the country, into pieces, what DO THEY GET out of it? What is hurting me more than the terror exploits is the petty politics that our political leaders are playing. After every blast, the opposition party (BJP) says the same stuff (UPA government is ineffective in handling terrorism.. blah blah) and the ruling party comes up with i...