I've heard a humorous way of justifying angry outbursts in family. When a rubber band (symbol for patience) is being stretched, at one point, it will snap.
Growing up, when terrorism in India started rearing its head, Marxist narratives were explaining it away citing that root-causes needed to be looked at.
The Ayodhya judgment observes that the 1992 mosque demolition was illegal. Taking a leaf out of the Marxist narrative, can we look at the root-cause?
Hindus had been prevented from worshipping in their holiest spot for 6 centuries. In 1990, unarmed protesting Kar Sevaks were massacred en-masse by the Mulayam Singh Yadav Uttar Pradesh government, one of the biggest government sponsored pogrom in independent India. The bodies were buried, thrown in wells & the Sarayu river. Bodies are still missing. The media was muzzled, papers recalled & pulped. Marxist journalists called for killing the story, and the media complied with a black-out. Two years later, Kar Sevaks would demolish the mosque. Did the Kar Sevak massacre & the lack of outrage cause this rubber band to snap?
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