Monday, October 17, 2005

A typical Indian Riot

I was reading reports about rioting in the North Indian town of Mau. One thing that struck me , was the description. "Violence erupted between two communities". talk about stating the obvious. In their effort to be politically correct the reports end up looking ridiculous. When there is a riot in India, everybody with half a brain knows its between hindus and muslims. What we don't know is who started it. I concede such information can be deemed inflammatory, and can be suppressed . But for heaven's sake don't insult our intelligence by giving us the "two communities" spiel. My solution, look up the same report in a foreign paper, they are not burdened by any such considerations and usually call a spade a spade.

1 comment:

bluesman said...

Well I beg to disagree, two communities could mean anything. The fight could be between two communities of brahmins.

A subcaste of brahmins who worship vishnu who's subcast believe that he was reincarnated as a cow, subcast of which believe that the cow roamed the deserts of rajasthan

can have a fight with

another brahmin subcast who worship vishnu who's subcast believe that he was reincarnated as a cow who's subcast believe that he roamed the deserts of rajasthan but more importantly did not like the grass in rajasthan so migrated to gujrat in search of better pastures.

See two completely different communities as different as a boring hindu or muslim