Terrorism is a monologue in a subverted mind
Defining terrorism isn’t easy. Kamalhasan calls Nathuram Gadse the first Hindu terrorist but Madhu Purnima Kishwar retorts by tweeting that some people ‘can’t tell the difference between a terrorist and an assassin. The latter is not a complimentary term. Kennedy’s killing was an assassination and never called a terrorist act. So also Gandhi’s murder by...
Don’t allow terror to spread panic
Noam Chomsky wrote: ‘Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.’ This may shock or stun you because you obviously thought you were making all the right motions by lighting candles, marching through your city, pasting #SayNoToWar all over the social media, and probably asking everyone else to...
The Terrorist
Colors are mine, hues are mine All shapes of the world are mine And if the laws follow my wish All is well and fine, just fine! People must know I’m always right Or I’ll simply show my might Sight or insight don’t really matter So long as you fear my bite! . . ....
My dream has been killed
What you may never have seen or heard That right above where you see that bird Ghosts from the past come, perch, and watch us. Yesterday one of them spoke a word: ‘Listen!’ And I shut all else and heard A few horrified ghost sounds say: ‘Yes! We know now that once dead we are...
Education is the nursery for tomorrow
It is the uneducated mind and a personality that lacks a coherent direction that tends to seek terror as its anchor. But I am not talking of terror as a political weapon or as some act that will make it to the headlines as an agent of destruction. Terror stalks only when the finer portals...
