Orissa riots : The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

“Violence in Orissa is largely a backlash against the murder of a Hindu leader who ran a local campaign against Christian conversion. Maoist rebels said they had killed him but Hindus blamed Christians.” (Reuters)

The people of one religious group should stop killing people of another religious group.
And supporters of the aggrieved religious group should organise petitions for floods, droughts and other issues; not just when they are affected.

Future tense:

→Tell the nation about the people affecting you; don’t kill or harm them.
→Don’t convert people to your religion if you are doing so.

For Government:

While you are building nuclear missiles, the country may be bustling with riots.
Make some libraries and schools. Include sex education in every curriculum.

From what perspective should a story write itself?

A writer wonders about the perspective of his or her story.
Is she writing for the living or the dead?
The dead is neither a Hindu nor a Christian

She is in Mumbai and far away from Orissa. She realises,
The pen traces the silences between huts and seeks outlines of faces.
It borrows ink from roots of trees and chlorophyll. Thus, it is warm in the jungle.
When it sees a human stab another human, it eats a fruit from the tree; it cannot stab and force. Maybe it should just write.

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