Secular no more

Time is a great healer they say, I might agree with that, but what about those who have lost friends and families in serial blasts that have rocked our nation over the last 3 months, Bangalore, Jaipur, Surat Ahd and now Delhi.

Why are we fighting this proxy war?

Who are we fighting against? The common man? The very women and children who are targeted every day?

I find my self in a great dilemma, my very constitution is shaken, the very principles I stand and fight for seem to be have been eroded.

Terrorist attacks in the name of God, a minority community I have fought for, why then do they have to stoop down to killing innocents? Placing bombs in children’s parks in the name of God, is that jihad? Killing children, innocent people is that a holy war?

Why then should I stand for them, why then should I fight their battle? Why then should I not join the right wing and become a Hindu fundamentalist?

I agree that the minority community suffered when LK Advani’s “rath yatra” cut across India, I agree that the minority community suffered when communal violence burnt Gujarat. I agree they suffered but why, why divide this nation along the lines of religion.

Maybe the failures and the problems lie in the very secular fabric we are rather proud of. I have never been a Gandhian, in-fact I hate him, his policies, his very face on the currency I work so hard for. Yes I know its easy to blame him and others for the failures of this nation, the breakdown of the system, but then who do I turn to? I don’t have an answer.

I have lost faith in secularism; I believe that the secular fabric of this nation has been eroded forever.