Frangipani

This song comes to mind each time I think of all that has been going wrong in my country for these past few years and months … What did we see when we saw the group molestation of a girl in Assam…how could such things come to pass? How could people just watch? How and why did it happen? The violence in Assam… people ousted from their own homes by outsiders…violence, homelessness, arson, killing …. It is their home…why should they be asked to leave by outsiders? The protest in Mumbai against the violence in Assam which erupted into violence with death, fire and devastation…  it was supposed to be a voice against violence…then what happened? People from the North East leaving en masse from the south of India…being apparently threatened… with murder in their own cities, in their own country… how did this happen? All of these are not real. There has to be something which is at the core of it, something which is tangible. All of us during our growing up years are taught the same