Your views are appreciated but i would like to point out that

1. First this blog was written before the Mumbai terror attacks if you are referring to it when you say ‘at this hour’

2. Second, is there any good time to raise this issue when every month we are seeing a terror attack in various parts of the nation ?

3. The blog deals very well with the moral side of the happenings without being biased about any religion. The father and son in the story have lost a wife and mother but at the same time such actions can never be justified by such actions, because it will impact us along with others when we are out to take vengeance or to promote a faith or belief, in this way.

4. And i appreciate the author for calling the spade ‘a spade’. A good hard look at the situation which will push the society to form an opinion resulting in ‘implementable steps’ to reduce such acts is needed today. Human life is precious and everthing should be done to protect it.

nice writing, but culturally very insensitive.

My view :–>>>

I’ve seen a lot of people in my acquaintances who have openly expressed their non-secular nature and also gone on to abuse other religion… I know people are getting killed,… I know someday maybe even I may end up in the death-list. But does this justify the hate ? I, for one, have never seen the difference in the beutiful smile of a child, irrespective of religion. I had decided after the 2002 riots that I’ll be and remain secular till the end of my life. Maybe i am incapable or even a coward to not hate,… But I find myself incapable to hate a human-being just because of his religion. Once again, I know that I cannot and will never be able to change the world,… But i can be a difference atleast.

Living in the city area of Ahmedabad, I’ve come to experience the perceptible fear hanging in air and the lack of information numbing human brains till the point of desperation. It was a point of utter chaos. Streets silent and painted lacked their point of existence during those times. I was not a child back then and my faculties were developed enough to allow me to think. I still see myself waving at Army trucks doing a flag march in the sensitive areas… I was in one. I was afraid,…

Its was a time of no hope. Seemed like our government and law & order, normally inefficient, had ceased to exist in all proximity… The worst of all was the reputed “Indian Media”… They showed inflammatory images again and again. Reports were constantly disturbing and depressing. It is sad that people still die in my country for apparently no reason whatsoever inspite of we being world’s largest Parliamentry democracy…

It was a time when man ceased to be human,… There is much to say but i’ll stop now. Its for you to decide whether you are going to remain an irrational extremist or a secular self-respecting individual person. And I am quite sure that any book of religion; whether the QUORAN, BIBLE or GITA, doesn’t tolerate the killing… Not even for religion. Killing is comparatively quite easy,… I pray to god to help me conquer my hatred. I’ll chose to be a human being rather than be a Hindu… As that is what my religion teaches me. To love,…