Black Friday

Well i just thought id write something in , after so many days being in hyderabad i guess i saw one of the first glimpses of unrest atleast something that affected me at some level. There was a bomb blast and to tell u the truth i haven't really thought bout wat happened in it or what happened after it till now. Like i mostly do i have blocked it out.

Now to begin with , i must mention that in this whole deal i was not affected neither was anyone that i knew personally. The bomb as u must be knowing if uv watched the news that is , went off in a mosque, there were three more luckily they didn't go off otherwise there would have been hell, it was during the time of the evening namaz, wat perfect choice. bloody bastards. 5 got killed atleast i think and well the rest were shot down by our police , i wonder if they are there to protect us or kill us.

Well i could never understand communal violence , iv never faced it, iv never been a part of it iv never thought bout it, about religion about cast, yes colour i have thought bout , well atleast when i was young i was always attracted towards the fairer girls, but well over a period of time even that preference has faded away to where i think black too is pretty sexy. So in a world like that where i exist i could not understand what had happened, to me it was a bomb blast , like in mumbai trains, like the time we were there in mumbai , and well that time Mr Yesudian had forced us to go for a class this time id didn't even matter. I agree im from tiss and being around so many social workers i should understand it, but well its not really happened. To me at some level the world itself exists as a happy big family.

So it was a bomb blast like any normal bomb blasts, im talking as if i see one every day. I don't like violence and could never understand how someone would stoop to that level to kill ppl they don't even know, not for revenge , for well some other causes, maybe indirect blind anger. What followed was understood, it was an angered mob leaving their brains behind acting on complete emotions stoning the police and well i don't think the only resort that the police was left with was to shoot a few ppl down , but then this is hyderabad , the traffic sucks and every ones angry and everyone boastful, so maybe it was some private personal pleasure to tell others they had shot three in the mob. But thats wat exactly happened , i sometimes wonder if the police were trying to match the casualties from the bomb.

Till now pure violence , i have seen this before atleast the killings and the bombings, but then the place being a masjid was sure to hurt the Islamic sentiments. And the tension grew. Now rather than moaning a loss ppl were looking to get even. They were out in the streets , wat seemed like a nice sunny morning turned out to be a black evening, with mobs flinching other mobs. Shops were forced to close down if not by fear then by force, wat loss to the economy, a days dealing was reduces to pittance for the whole of hyderabad, a few news of ppl being shot , killed were common , how many of this were true im not to sure , but the evening was turning dark and fear was rising. Iv never had lunch in a closed restaurant , with its shutters down , in fear of wat a mob can do to it, this was my first experience of that too, and well id say its nice if u like it being quiet.

Fighting over religion, my office boys telling me how they join in on religious gangs beating the crap out of the other , breaking bones with no fear, being broken with no fear all it takes is a call from the religious leaders of that area , or the political ones. All this nonchalantly , with no excitement nor pain, they have all become weapons in the hands of ppl creating unrest, they are the means to an end which will not end unless a whole religion is eradicated , maybe by the end of it every one will kill everyone and there would be nothing left , nothing sacred atleast .

What goes behind it i dont know , it was the first time i saw a guy for his religion, i mean with the tag of his religion, it was the first time that i noticed a namaaz ka topi on someones head, the boy was quiet , probably looking for a meal like we were in the taunt streets. Looking at every corner with eyes aghast for signs of violence , probably not different from me. But i noticed the cap, and then there was lunch well nothing else was more important. That one moment in which i was being served in a cafe and he was there with me , sitting on a different table eating his meal , like i was , everything became normal, the silence belonged, and i believed once again. My lil world still exists , maybe till I get killed id think about it like that.


Religion is one of those things that are individual choices , atleast i believe that , and you can be of any religion that u want to be, the focus here is not on religious affiliations but rather god, pray to him the way u want to , take wat u like from him, but be with people u like and respect their choices.