A nine years old boy was awakened by his parents hurriedly in the morning. He was rushed to take his breakfast immediately and his mother started dressing him at the same time. Everybody in the family was talking loudly and seemed to be in tension. Whatever…!, the boy thought.
A few minutes later the whole family moved towards his aunt’s house. Reaching there the boy was very happy as there were two of his cousins and they had already planned how to make fun and what would be that day’s prime games. They were five altogether, more or less of same age, so it didn’t take much time to start their fun.
They were busy in different games, so, none of them realized what’s actually going on around them. A dangerous thought was trying to come in the boy’s mind every now and then but he was determined not to think of it. It’s awesome that his mother forgot about his school and he was praying to god not to remind her about it. He didn’t want to leave this happiness for any boring place like school.
But this small kids’ happiness didn’t stay longer. No body actually told them anything but the tension which was building around them from the morning started showing its fierce nature by the afternoon. They were very small to avoid that heat.
The boy and his group came to know that they were going to be attacked. What’s called attack? His two years elder cousin taught him, when a group of people start beating you to death, burn your house and loot everything then it’s called attack. Why would anyone attack them? Because, Babri Mashjid had been demolished by hindus last day and muslims were out on the roads to take revenge and so did the hindus, riot had been spread all over. But they hadn’t demolished Babri Mashjid, where is it anyway?....
Questions after questions kept coming but the boy’s elder siblings and cousins didn’t know maximum answers. They were not aware of the meanings of many words. What on earth is called 144? The group grasped many words from their parents, Ratan Mama, Matin Chacha, Chitta Dadu, Suab Uncle and many other people gathered there.
By two o’clock it was clear to the boy that he was going to die any moment. First he was thinking what should he do, hide somewhere or run speedily leaving everything behind; but nothing came to him as appropriate. Then one of his aunts showed him the way, she started crying loudly and the boy followed the same. He cried passionately for the sake of life. He didn’t want to lose his mother, father, brothers, grand ma, aunty, … anyone.
The boy might have slept afterwards, so he can’t recall now what exactly happened later that day. How his life had not been taken by the attackers, who burnt so many nearby houses that day and what’s the reason that he never saw many known faces after that horrifying day?
The boy is grown up now, many things changed but one thing is for sure, that very day of 6th December 1992 has changed his whole family’s destiny and its path everyway. His family moved from their ancestor’s place immediately after the riot for ever. Left behind everything they knew and also they were known for.
The family actually left the town to forget every bad memory and to live a decent life where they need not to live with fear of death, where people don’t get mad in the name of religion. But they were wrong. The people of new place were not any better than the old place. Settling down in a new place is never easy for anyone and the family also went through many disgusts.
If the demolition hadn’t taken place and massacre could be prevented, the boy could have become a different man today. The boy learnt many things in last 17 years but could not find two of his childhood questions’ proper answers yet. Why did some people demolish Babri Mashjid on 6th December 1992? And why did people attack each other like animals after the demolition of an old mosque forgetting their brotherhood and humanity?
The Liberhan Commission Report has been finally tabled in the Parliament, after 17 long years, 48 extensions and over 80 million rupees spending. Hearing the news, the boy couldn’t decide first, what should be his reaction, should he smile, should he become angry or should he cry loudly. After a few hours and surfing more than dozen of News Channels, he came to know about every development regarding this incident and he hopelessly switched off the television.
Report Says:
The report says nothing new. Mr. M.S. Liberhan took seventeen years only to articulate what every Indian knows very well. Liberhan Report says, BJP’s top rung, including formar PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were fully aware of the demolition plans. Kalyan Singh, then CM of Uttar Pradesh had full knowledge of the plans but forced his administration into ineffectiveness. Mentioning the involvement of Shib Sena, VHP and RSS top brass, report also says that BJP’s top leaders were tools in their hands. The Report has given clean chit to Narasimha Rao government……
Reactions:
BJP has already started crying how this report was leaked to media before formal tabling in the house, they as usual described this report as politically motivated and demanded Home Minister’s resignation. BJP’s leaders are questioning the grounds of mentioning Atal Bihari Vajpayees involvement in the incident whereas he has not been interviewed once. Kalyan Singh on the other hand, called press conference and made clear that he is proud of what happened on 6th December 1992. And funniest of all, VHP, RSS and Shib Sena cadres are openly challenging centre government to prove their role in the demolition……
Media Says:
BJP unlikely to gain as Ram Mandir issue has lost its electoral charisma long ago. But it could help a little to Advani in building BJP again. Sangh Parivar may also come together. Samajwadi party’s alignment with Kalyan Singh would cause its biggest loss ever and Congress could get Muslim Vote in Uttar Pradesh. Though Narasimha Rao was given clean chit but still he could be an embarrassment……
Ultimate Result:
1) Political and religious parties have again got the ISSUE for throwing dirt on each other and dividing aam-admi by spreading ridiculous ideologies and delivering horrific definitions of religion.
2) Nothing awful would ever happen to the criminals behind this preplanned demolition of the Babri Mashjid and the massacre that took place after the incident which took more then two thousands lives nationwide and made lakhs of people homeless all of a sudden.
3) The culprits would become more wealthy, more stronger and more powerful day by day no matter government or law take any action against them or not.
4) The aam-admi would thank their god that the almighty had saved them from the massacre that day and again forget the whole issue as they did seventeen years ago. The victims and their family could not forget it so easily, so, they would weep silently and pray that may their next generation don’t see anything like this.
The boy now tries to avoid this Bloody issue related programs in television but doesn’t succeed always. He witnesses what different leaders are saying about the report and its consequences with his friends and laugh or throw slang to them along with everyone. Deep in his heart, the boy worries about his parents and sometime feels as they are crying remembering the past they had gone through. He can’t directly ask them, so he frequently calls home and enquires about his heart patient parents.
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