Why was it supposed to happen?

Name: Aishwarya Sharma

Email: aish6489@gmail.com

Topic: Godhra Riots(Iconic Photograph)

 

I remember the days when the newspaper was merely a death report. I was just in class 8^th.I did not know what was happening around. All my parents would tell was the term 'Riots'. I was travelling to Gujarat during their most happening time of the year, The Navratre and the Garba..And all I discovered during that small trip was a question: Why was it supposed to happen?

They came and they killed. Who were they? A  group of alleged enemies. None knew each other but still they fought for a cause so unknown. It's as if small kids who do not know anything but cry because the others are doing so. The train I was travelling in was flooded with Policemen and as we reached Godhra early morning on 2^nd October 2002, it felt as if a silent land of crying souls is taking its course in the morning. Trying to tell people around that it is recovering and healing. They shut all the doors of the train I was in as a matter of precaution. Through the window I could see this picture framed out on the station and large number of condolences being offered below it. But was it worth it for the people who died. Strange it was for me when the old lady in my Granny's neighbourhood said that before they could understand what it was it just ruined their life.

A mere piece of uncertain thinking, which ends up ruining the worlds of many. How does a Bread earner of a small little poor family know that a caste or a religion he is in can be as disastrous as a natural calamity. Was it for this day that our great freedom fighters gave us a free land to live in? The young generation of the country learns from such incidents and carries them ahead. But it's time to wake up.. Have we not had enough of these irrational issues creeping in time and again that we should grow above them and think about other concerns of poverty and unemployment? It's not just about 794 Muslims and 254 Hindus, it is about humanity. We are born as humans and humanity is our first and foremost religion.  Think about it... Why was it actually supposed to happen?

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