I havent said the govt will wage a war. Don't know where you got that from when that was quite clearly not being discussed at all. Eventually a 2002 type incident will happen with quasi govt support - they will.not have a choice like they didn't then - to set the record and the miscreants straight. And it wont be u provoked as you very well know. Right now you seem to be talking like a pacifist and Gandhian by saying we must trust institutions even if they are for better or worse hogtied by the current ecosystem because of the backlash that they might face abroad or from international human rights organisations who sit on a high horse but have no skin in the game to pass any judgement when a particular group realises it needs to give a fitting riposte. You can't bury your head in the sand and pretend to be asleep. Ultimately strength and it's display is what will determine which way the political clout - which you forget is all earned because of the people themselves - chooses to break rather than a rule.of law system that is anachronistically objective and failing to cut ice with a certain peaceful group. And yes it will be bloody to state the obvious , can't be any other way. If you had it your way then you would rather only one side turn the cheek and wait for just comeuppance to be delivered because otherwise the consequences might be dire. You don't see the irony In that ? This is exactly how this Ill fitting secularism is failing us now and why also bjp got a majority by itself in 2 elections lest it forget this fact. The civilizational battle will come about not because any of us wishes it to but because something will have to give at some point where a collision course is on the horizon. At that time you can't fight with one arm tied behind your back against someone with a weapon.
My dear friend mob violence begets mob violence, which in turn begets more violence. This vicious cycle of violence will singe everyone in its wake. International organizations may not have a skin in this game, but you, me and everyone who lives in this land do. Rule of law is the only principle that separates civilization from barbarism. These institutions of democracy, socialism, Secularism, equality of the man in the eyes law, are the only reason why more than half the citizens of this country are no longer out castes living on the fringes of society like their forefathers did, why landless people are no longer godforsaken scavengers in their own lands, why tens of millions of lower caste Hindus can practice their faith without scorn and humiliation.
Man is perhaps the only animal that despises his own freedom. We are so consumed by the irrational fear of choice, that we rather let someone else make the choice for us. Let someone else decide what I can think, who I can hate, whom I can love, what I can believe, what I can eat, what I can drink, what I can read and so on and so forth. Fear fetters your mind and dissolves your individuality, like bees in a hive, we become just creatures of basic natural instincts.
When we construct this "imagined others", we imagine ourselves as part of an indistinct whole. But this too is an imagination. For the Hindu Muslim /Christian /etc is the other, for hindi speakers tamil /malayali/kannadiga is the other, for a North Indian South Indian is the other, for the upper Caste lower Caste is the other. This business of 'othering' can take any shape or form and you, me and everyone else is, one way or another, the other to everyone else.
