2006 Malegaon bombings, Is this the India we know

A WORLD SO GOOD TO LIVE IN IS NOT ONE WITH PEOPLE TOO RICH OR TOO POWERFUL, IT'S THE ONE WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE RICHNESS BEYOND MONEY AND POWER BEYOND NAME- KINDNESS

India- the golden bird, once the leader of the world, a country home to millions of people or the caged bird, a leader which is now leaded, a country home to millions of differences. The slogan of our country was once "Unity in Diversity" and now is "Enmity in Diversity".
Is this the country for which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru and many others laid their lives for, is this the country for which our predecessors fought for, is this the country we all aspired for as kids?
Corruption cases like 2G scam, 3G scam; Riot cases like 2002 Gujarat riots, 2013 canning riots, 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots etc. have all disintegrated the once united citizens of our country.
If all these terms seem quite an old thing for you, then what about the recent one in talks- 2006 Malegaon blasts.

2006 Malegaon bombings were a series of bomb blasts that took place on 8 September 2006 in Malegaon , a town in the Nashik district of the Indian state of Maharashtra, 290 km northeast of Mumbai. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) initially blamed the bombings on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), but a chargesheet filed in 2013 put the blame on the Hindu extremist group Abhinav Bharat. On 25 April 2016, the court found the initial ATS charges to be fabricated and released the nine Muslims previously arrested.

The explosions - which resulted in at least 37 fatalities and 125 injuries - took place in a Muslim cemetery, adjacent to a mosque, at around 13:15 local time after Friday prayers on the holy day of Shab e Bara'at. Most of the blast victims were Muslim pilgrims. Security forces spoke of "two bombs attached to bicycles," but other reports indicated that three devices had exploded. A stampede ensued after the devices exploded. A curfew was imposed in the town and state paramilitary forces were deployed in sensitive areas to prevent unrest.

Malegaon has been the focus of communal tension for some time, which spilled out into the open in 1984, 1992, and 2001, when there were large scale protests over the United States invasion of Afghanistan. Police had killed 12 Muslim protesters after a brief altercation with them. The Taliban regime in Afghanistan had enjoyed immense support from Muslims in Malegaon.

All hell broke out during these scene, some accused Hindu groups other were busy with making Muslim terrorist groups the cause.
So what was all this about? Why had the bombing happened? Who were the people behind it? What was the motive behind all these?

On November 4, 2008,, the ATS arrested Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit, a serving Army officer, for his involvement in the blast. By now the matter had taken a political turn, with the BJP and the Shiv Sena accusing the ATS of having political motives behind the arrests and accusing the Congress for using the ATS for political gains.
On June 25, 2015, the Indian Express quoted the Special Public Prosecutor in the case, Rohini Salian, as saying the NIA had instructed her to “go soft” on the accused.

Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya, accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, will not be charged under a tough law against organised crime. But it is only partial relief as they will face trial for conspiracy charges, a court said today.

The motive of this blog post is not to create awareness about this news or to hurt anyone, but to throw light on the basic mindset and motive behind it. Communal differences, religion wars- the thought behind most of the terrorist attacks, bombings and riots, all because we don't want to accept that religion is not the one thing that matters, but the people do

Is this the India we aspired for, as kids? Is this the India we want to gift to the coming generation?
The world has come far away from where it was, its time for us to realize that life has been different for everyone, people are different- some may look different, some may talk different, some may believe different but everybody has the same blood color and everybody share the same race so rather than discarding the differences among us we should accept them.
There is no opposite for any religion, opposite of Hindu is not Islam and neither it is true vice versa.

The irony and the only problem between these ideals and reality is that

WE HATE DIFFERENT AND WE LOVE DIFFERENCE.