Mangalore- "peace be with you"

It looks like we are sitting on a Volcano here...ready to blast off any time.. Hope  I am not exaggerating..what I am encountering on daily basis here in Mangalore is hatred of one community against other, it looks like even the newspapers have some systematic agenda in their news.. especially the Kannada dailies.. their focus is mainly on to accused or victims belong to which community rather..on the root causes. You may easily see the headings starting with " Hindu Boy..." Muslim Boy.." Christian priest"..on any randomly selected news papers.The News papers are further dividing the communities rather working towards building a healthy society.

The situation is so worse..( i have personally encountered) that even small road accidents are given communal colors and people of either communities are ready to take it further to a bigger level... 

Even it looks like some of the newspapers are run by,  run for, of political parties. If BJP & Hindu Organisations  become priority for one news paper some others have priorities of Congress. In this melee of run for money news papers have actually forgotten the common people and their issues.

If cow transport is stopped and attacked by some of the youth..they are portrayed as heroes even when they have taken the laws in their hands..( the same news is reported in other news paper, which says that there were papers and transport was legal). whom do you believe anyways? Because, we are not provided with true news by any of the news papers, are we??

People in the Karavali districts are not at all worried about increasing corruption, illegal mining, and even abuse of Children and women. A recent survey in which i worked shows increased incidences of drug abuse among children and sexual abuses against them as well. Further it is very alarming that child sex ratio in the district is drastically reducing.

Lets remember one thing..no single political leader has died in the communal violence, it is the common people including women and children who bear all the brunt.

There is a systematic effort to curb freedom of women in the name of culture and traditions. Even youth are targeted if they found taking to girls of opposite religion.  The moral brigades are ready to threaten and beat them mercilessly. Moral brigades have started attacking BPOs as well, where women are employed.  In one of the events i have attended, one of the leaders blamed  foreign culture for increased incidences of crimes in the society and crimes against women, (oh really...hypocrites...). who gave dowry system to India, where's sati  system came from, why is the girl sex ratio is so low, child marriage??? list is endless... Lets open our eyes before we blame some unknown foreign evils

To which religion, the crimes, corruption, exploitation, discrimination..belong??? They have no religion, the political agendas have brain washed people and taken away from the actual issues. Increased religious events, rallies,  gatherings have just puts some extra burden on the poor.


I think its time to say good bye to foreign greetings ( good morning, good evening, gn etc) and start some thing new.. : "peace be with you"