It has been 26 years since that dark day in Indian history!
Demolishing any building of historical importance without the legal sanction is not right! Let it be a mosque, a church or a temple. It was wrong in 1992. It was wrong if it had happened during the Mughal period. I don't see anybody being punished for the demolition neither for the riots that followed. In the human parlance, justice will never be done. The court cannot and will not do justice in this context.
It is beyond human comprehension to do justice in cases like these. Let us leave that to the gods.
Let us wash our hands of these dark phases of our history. I know washing hands off blood is difficult. The stain just does not go away. The vengeance often lurks around in the remotest corners of the heart and one small spark and the fire will start burning again. Yet do we have a choice? How long will we be fighting over this?
As the best education minister in the country suggested, Let us build a university there. The biggest university in the world. Where the world will come to study. Let every subject on earth be taught in there. Pump in money on research. Social and scientific. Bring the world's best to head them.
I understand, demolishing a monument and building a university should not set a precedent. But let this be a one off! Whatever happened has happened. Wipe this off memory. Let these events be only for the history books, only to remind ourselves of the idiocy and its repercussions.
Forgive! Heal! Move on! It is just about time.
Demolishing any building of historical importance without the legal sanction is not right! Let it be a mosque, a church or a temple. It was wrong in 1992. It was wrong if it had happened during the Mughal period. I don't see anybody being punished for the demolition neither for the riots that followed. In the human parlance, justice will never be done. The court cannot and will not do justice in this context.
It is beyond human comprehension to do justice in cases like these. Let us leave that to the gods.
Let us wash our hands of these dark phases of our history. I know washing hands off blood is difficult. The stain just does not go away. The vengeance often lurks around in the remotest corners of the heart and one small spark and the fire will start burning again. Yet do we have a choice? How long will we be fighting over this?
As the best education minister in the country suggested, Let us build a university there. The biggest university in the world. Where the world will come to study. Let every subject on earth be taught in there. Pump in money on research. Social and scientific. Bring the world's best to head them.
I understand, demolishing a monument and building a university should not set a precedent. But let this be a one off! Whatever happened has happened. Wipe this off memory. Let these events be only for the history books, only to remind ourselves of the idiocy and its repercussions.
Forgive! Heal! Move on! It is just about time.
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