Malegaon blasts...Warning bells ringing??

The startling discovery that extremist groups among the Hindudtva brigade is behind the Malegaon blasts has come as a real shock to many. Terrorist activities can have no justification at all, and killing of innocent people has to be deplored altogether.

At this juncture, the country would do well to take note of the frustrations and underlying anger of the majority community too, for a change. Over sixty years, the nation has tried to appease the so called ‘minority sections of the society’ in all possible ways. It is another matter whether the appeasement and sops have actually benefits the needy among these sections. The failure to uplift the needy should have been reason enough to re-think the strategy. Instead, the political class continued to play vote bank politics even at the risk of antagonising the weaker sections of the majority community. This sad state of affairs have flared up to such an extent that different communities have become entirely self-centred and greedy. Sadly, this is the perfect recipe for disaster..

Can India summon the courage and the vision to rethink its socio-economic policies to benefit the poor, irrespective of caste and religion? Can it show the guts to crush terrorism regardless of the ideological leanings? Above all, can we ever become a truly secular nation where state does not discriminate among various castes and religions?