“A man may be destroyed but not defeated,” said Ernest Hemingway.
India is a country which has been following the idea of ‘non-violence.‘ But, in recent years, there has been an increase in incidents of hate crimes and communal violence.
According to data by IndiaSpend, “over the six years since 2012, 29 persons have been killed in cow-related hate violence, 25 of whom were Muslim.”
And, how can anyone forget the brutal killing of a 52-year-old Muslim man, Akhlaq, by a mob of villagers in Dadri? A police inspector, named Subodh Kumar Singh, who was, incidentally, the investigating officer of the Dadri lynching case, was also killed due to mob violence, in Bulandshahar.
The sad truth is that a member of Parliament, from the ruling party, praised the murderer of Mahatma Gandhi by calling him a nationalist.
Such incidents are nothing but a dark spot on the ‘idea’ of India that had been given by the father of our nation.