Lighthouse

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Pragna Prabodh Parivar

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volunteer from Ahmedabad, Smt. Geeta Rambhia was brutally murdered by the butchers. Similarly, a 30 year young lawyer named Lalit Jain from Bhiwandi was shot dead in broad day light at 11.00 O'clock in the morning in a crowded market place. Lalit was involved in fighting cases against butchers indulging in illegal transportation and slaughter of animals. Recently, a Police Inspector who tried to prevent illegal transportation and slaughter was killed. This is real intolerance. Nobody thought of returning their awards in protest against these killings ! Is the protest of the so-called intellectuals against intolerance or against compassion ? Some time ago in Kerala, the provision of midday meal in all government schools was suspended during Ramzan. These schools did not have only Muslim students. Students of all communities were studying in these schools. Still, even the non-muslim students were subjected to this suspension of midday meal. Not only this, even the school timings were changed. School hours got over more than 112 to 2 hours earlier than the scheduled timings. The reason given was that when Muslim students are observing their roza, they cannot study for long hours with empty stomachs. Even students of other communities who were not observing the roza also suffered the reduction in their study hours. How can this be described? The country is suffering from terrorism for decades now and lakhs of innocent people have fallen prey to it. How would you describe this? How is that no one thought of
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