MUZAFFARNAGAR RIOTS- ‘BEING INHUMAN’

Abstract

With atrocities varying from political interference in police matters, apathetic
attitude towards the mass sufferings of public, provocative communal speeches and
unpardonable kind of treatment of women yet again, we stood witness to the Muzaffarnagar
tragedy which started in September 2013. With many unresolved issues and still unanswered
questions in our minds, we try to make one more effort to understand why India, our
‘motherland’ is so incorrigible and why the ones who sit at the threshold of power refuse to
mend their ways and start behaving like ones made of flesh and blood. Where humanity has
become something as negotiable as buying grocery one falls into deep thought before trying to
blame ministers who say that death is inevitable and people die in palaces too and so people
dying in relief camps without adequate facilities is but normal- because only a stony-heart can
think this way. And for these ministers, ‘sky is the limit’. They know no end to such statements.
We have heard more damaging things being said about different sections of the society on
various occasions, the most recent occasion being that of December16, 2012 where unbelievable
things were said about women at large and many such about the rape victim as well. How many
more incidents of such horrendous violence need to emerge to the surface to fill government
seats with human beings instead of political animals is one of the biggest questions today.