Sunday,06-Dec,1992.I was a child of 8 years.I was watching DD News along with my parents.
There were some images being shown on the TV.A mob going wild,demolishing a structure.I asked my mother what it was, and she said ‘Some foolish people are demolishing a mosque.’I asked why.She had no answer.Neither did millions of Indians.
Babri Masjid haunts our generation.Every 6th of December is a black day.Protests pour out all over the country.The law and order situation becomes fragile.The security forces are put on high alert.Why do we need this?
Hindus and Muslims lived together peacefully for hunderds of years in this country.Agreed,there were a few disturbances.Yet India proved itself to be resilient and the differences were settled amicably.Where is that resilience now?Why do millions of people fall prey to the fancies of stupid politicians?
People say Lord Rama was born there,at the exact place where Babri once stood.I didn’t know that technology has developed to an extent where we can predict the exact birth location of a person.OK,agreed that Rama was born there and later the Muslim rulers built a mosque at the place after demolishing the temple that was there.So the Hindu fanatics demolished the mosque. Now let us assume that a temple has been built at the site.What if a few hundred years down the line a Muslim mob demolishes the temple because a mosque existed before the temple has been built?
We,the Indians,have umpteen number of issues that require a very serious attention from us-Poverty,Hunger,Child Labour,Dowry,AIDS,Corruption..the list goes on.It’s time for us as a nation to get over such petty issues.
Let us have a new beginning.We gave the world the weapon of Non-Violence.Now let us show the world our resilience.Get over Babri.Get over Gujarat.Let us build a monument that buries the centuries of hatred between the communities.Let us build the four lion statue from Sarnath. A massive one.Bigger than the Eiffel tower,bigger than Lady Liberty.
The replica of the statue erected by a Buddhist king,Ashoka,standing on the place where Hindus and Muslims fought each other.The four lions bury the centuries of hatchet under their massive feet.They roar in the four directions,announcing the arrival of India,as a nation.As a nation of single religion,Indianism.
March 30, 2007 at 12:10 am
Babri Masjid helped only one thing. To worsen things on the communal front and for the right-wing religious fundamentalists to have a good hold and power over the normal people.
I remember one of my friends talking about this, whose mother belongs to a royal family in the north Kerala and he was visiting them with his mother. When they were there, the news came out in the TV that Babri Masjid was demolished. And his uncle rushed to the bakery and bought sweets and distributed it among the family members to celebrate it!
On their way back home, their car was attacked by a mob of Muslim activists who were out on the streets. He said it was shocking to see the two faces of fundamentalism.
My friend, who is not anymore in this world, was against all of these fundamentalist right-wingers.
December 12, 2007 at 11:34 am
Hindu should be agressive,it is good change, we should keep muslims under our foot.so they cant rise again.babari falls down but jama masjid is remaining.destroy it,destroy everything which is releted to islam.
December 7, 2009 at 1:39 pm
we are the ultimate leaders of this whole world , no one can destroy the mosques and islam , you just wait for result to come……………………….
jo ukhadna hai ukhadle……………