It is astonishing how man can find a reason to hate. There are so many boundaries, so many man-made barriers, so many differentials that you just get trapped into one of them somehow or the other and get lost in the maze.
As a kid growing up in the times of communal riots, I thought religion was perhaps a great divide and that men fight over religion, even though that is one of the most paradoxical things to do.
Then, as I was debating the idea of religious divide, I was confronted with a land where people's mistrust was rooted in race. So it was not religion, but color and race that became the tools. It took me back to the horrific World War that had the genesis of race-based annihilation.
Eventually, over the years I have realized that men always find ways to discriminate. If not on the basis of religion then color, if not that then language or petty things like caste, creed or the omnipresent status and class.
Are we humans designed to not like people who don't look, talk or feel like us? What breeds hatred? And does everything need to have a hierarchy? Can it not be that all religions, all race and all languages are equally best? (I say "Best" because good has not been good enough so far..)
As a kid growing up in the times of communal riots, I thought religion was perhaps a great divide and that men fight over religion, even though that is one of the most paradoxical things to do.
Then, as I was debating the idea of religious divide, I was confronted with a land where people's mistrust was rooted in race. So it was not religion, but color and race that became the tools. It took me back to the horrific World War that had the genesis of race-based annihilation.
Eventually, over the years I have realized that men always find ways to discriminate. If not on the basis of religion then color, if not that then language or petty things like caste, creed or the omnipresent status and class.
Are we humans designed to not like people who don't look, talk or feel like us? What breeds hatred? And does everything need to have a hierarchy? Can it not be that all religions, all race and all languages are equally best? (I say "Best" because good has not been good enough so far..)
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