Samikhsya Bureau
It is more the words rather than the actions, have today torn asunder a social fabric over citizenship row. But, yet, there is no let-up in the perfidious utterances from all across.
Each one is out with a mouthful of venom and a section of the media also works overtime in the selective plucking of video clips and sound bites giving way to new beginning of nightmares for the young man on the streets.
No longer are they the beloved children of a family but are being branded as parts of a brigade involved in activities allegedly seditious.
No one would have expected that, politics was capable of pushing in one of the most bitter evils that the nation had ever spawned.
It is the elections in Delhi which led to such pedestrian trading of barbs and the consequent virulence the youth is chocked with.
The national capital’s geographic expanse have become the alien landscapes of fear, suspicion and, often terror of violence.
This is searing and dreary as every other minute, someone, somewhere is taking a plunge into the mess of confusion.
Whether it is Sharjeel Imam or Anurag Thakur, both tend to strike deep into the matter of peace, civility and common sense.
Imam has been arrested for his selective use of terminologies while, Thakur is being counselled ! There is no action yet against him.
But, the young man on the streets, in the university campuses and colleges, stands as a lone creature being haunted by the most deadly designed campaign strategy for the Delhi polls. He or she only remains stuck to a patch like a sandwich wrapper, fluttering in the winds of the unrest and uncertainty. As if, a child trying to emerge from a labyrinth of frustration.
