Apropos the article in Op-Ed, DC B'lore dtd 21 Jul. 2012 - "Lessons from Norway", some more underlying factors needs to be examined for the violence prevalent and increasing in a very wide spread and disastrous manner all over the Globe. Keeping the nomenclatures like Islamic, Taliban, Western or Eastern and so on aside because more often than not it restricts and biases the scope and nature of enquiry, we ought to go to roots or as nearly to the roots of the causes. I wont be surprised if the examination reveals that what seems to be the reasons apparently are not the real causes. It may be shocking to see that the reasons seem to be attributable to the huge disparity in the human status levels in terms of money, houses, education, and the monopoly over the various other resources. If 10% of the population monopolise 90% of the resources in various areas, the remaining 90% of the society will keep simmering and burst at the available opportunities or the vents created by others with vested interests of gaining what they don't have including respect and fear. A simple eye opener real example of deceptively trivial quality - I was in a party at a big hotel and as is my habit, entered in to conversation with a waiter. After he found that I was for him and not against him what he said was alarming. The gist was that he and others like him were burning inside due to the blatant and vulgar drama of money and wastage put up every day by the extreme rich and powerful. And old people like him keep burning and cursing the 'filthy' rich, youngsters like his chlldren are for a bloody revolution to 'straighten up' such people who are 'dead drunk' with the money and power. The have's are sitting on tinder boxes of their own making and history shows that it may take some decades for the volcano to burst, it will erupt surely. Have's are themselves the causes of revolution and it has to be bloody because over so many decades 'have's' have also sucked the blood of the poor, very cleverly. These people may feel very safe behind their castles, jets, yatchs and pulls but will their future generations continue to be safe, is not a mute question. Let this class awaken and take necessary steps to reduce the huge gulf of disparities of standards of living around them. If they fail to see the necessity, it is to their own and their future generations, peril.
Premji Bhanushali,
c-108 vishnu residency, street no.11, gandhi nagar, hyderabad 500080.
21 jul 2012
