Round and about

Author: Busybee
Publication: Afternoon Despatch & Courier
Date: February 5, 2001

Last night, on Star News you must have seen a foreigner, a member of one of the rescue reams, paying handsome tributes to the people of Gujarat. He said that he had been on scene at several national tragedies, in Sarajevo at the time of the mammoth human exodus and in Palestine during a major crisis, but nowhere had he seen people behave with greater discipline as in Bhuj. Many of them who had lost everything, including the rest of the members of their family, suffered silently and, if not with resignation, somewhere near it. The only emotion they showed was returning, in the darkness of the night, to the site where their homes once stood.

Not being an Indian, he would not know that was the way of Hinduism and of all those who came under its influence. You suffer silently and with dignity.
 

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