In comes another X’mas. People across the globe are already in a festive mood, though poverty, malnutrition, terrorist attacks massacring innocent lives including even children. Sub-Saharan Africa and a number of third World countries are reeling under famine and ethnic clashes taking away many poor people’s lives, those who survive flee their residences fearing death and torture and seek shelter in refugee camps as ethnic clashes mount in countries like Sudan-Darfur issue resulting in people escaping to comparatively peaceful areas to escape from ethnic clashes, deaths, poverty and malnutrition, SriLanka, our neighbouring country is also simmering in the clashes between Sinhalas and LTTE men in fierce fights and the non-partisan people are forced to line up as shield by the LTTE militants and in the process thousands of Tamilians caught in between the government forces and the LTTE militia, often get killed for no fault of theirs. A vast number of Tamilians run for their life by catching boats and travel to TamilNadu, in India seeking refuge. We are very well aware of the present plight of Zimbabwe under the rule of Robert Mugabe, once a freedom fighter against the deplorable and ruthless rule of whites later evolved into an authoritarian ruler, even disallowing leaders of opposition parties from contesting elections( he had announced his decision to hold elections under international and opposition pressure but massive rigging took place) with guns directed against them. Morgan Tsvangiri, the main opposition leader of MDC (Movement For Democratic Change) had to undergo imprisonment, also murderous assaults at the hands of Mugabe’s soldiers; his only demand was for a peaceful transparent and impartial election under the supervision of International leaders and also United Nations. The inflation rate in Zimbabwe is running in millions making absolutely impossible for the masses to make both ends meet, minute by minute, second by second, the prices of eatables and other items soar to new heights.
Somalia, already known as the Horn of Africa has not at all a government since 1991 to look after the basic needs of civilians, thousands and thousands of people perishing day by day and like adding fuel to the fire, clashes between Somalian civilians and neighbouring country of Ethiopia and claim the precious lives of multitude.
Terrorists across the World are always planning, plotting, abetting and often successfully implementing the diktats entrusted by their superiors by pumping bullets, throwing bombs and grenades causing deafening explosions, claiming precious lives of innocents who always pray for peace of mind and bread to satiate their hunger. Even, NGOs are not spared by the militants from providing food and shelter to lakhs of refugees by threatening them, some even get killed for their love of humanity.
If I am going to narrate such pathetic conditions prevailing elsewhere, this article will go on like a never ending process.
In my solitary moments, I often think with sadness, plight of crores of people living on the edge because of a few anti-social elements. A handful of minority holding the majority to ransom, looting, killing in cold-blood. Somewhere I read recently one sentence by a World famous writer, she is no more now and let me quote her here.
-“A confident resistance by the masses can force a thug run away fearing for his/her life”.
She had understood the enormous potential of the majority of peace-loving people can push the terrorists to the wall. She also knew that a peace-loving majority, if they stand united can defeat and destroy the anti-social elements, who always constitute a minority. With the help and encouragement of those in higher echelons, those inhuman bastards could be eliminated from the whole scene.
Now I come to the point. X’mas is a universal festival celebrated by people across the globe in fervour and enthusiasm. The World now reeling under the Global melt down reminding all of us of the Great Depression of 1930s, cannot prevent the people everywhere to be in a festive mood from the very beginning of the month of December. As the countdown begins people become more and more enthusiastic and festive. Each one of them adorns their houses, monuments, malls- everywhere with glittering stars of various colours and chandlers. It would be a treat to watch the stars and festoons embellishing the whole World and crores wait for the birth of infant Jesus on December 25. Moreover, we can read innumerable X’mas greeting messages of Christian priests in the columns of Newspapers, enlightening the need of communal harmony, Universal love, peace and tranquility for which infant Jesus came to the World, suffered torture at the hands of evil-men and eventually crucifying him for speaking and suffering for the people of his land. Jesus never nursed bitter feelings towards any man or woman, always called for love, peace, prosperity and harmony among people.
One week before the 25 December, people young, old , middle-aged and children from various walks of life, begin to prepare for the ‘action plan’ to conduct the celebrations and also forming Carol groups to various directions with Grand Pa Santa Claus with white flowing hairs resembling cotton wool and eye brows in his long red-robe with long white flowing beards and enormous paunch dancing often with a stick in his hand and keeping sweets for gifting to the children, while others in the Carol group singing songs heralding the birth of infant Jesus to the accompaniment of drum beats even in the midst of poverty, ignoring the threats of terror groups and uncertainty of the future.
A terrorist has no religion, no faith, no special mission in his life, his mission if any, to find pleasure in planning cruel plots and executing their dastardly deeds. His only pleasure is in killing the innocents ruthlessly with blood splattered along the way with body parts strewn around he gets intoxication and sadistic pleasure and always on the prowl of victims. How can an educated terrorist even renouncing the worldly pleasures, without any compunction, acquire the mentality to wreak as much destruction as possible dreaming the heavenly abode with 70 virgins waiting for him to take care of him and gratifying him for successfully completing the mission with blessings of Allah.
Man is always great and even after repeated attacks and killings, learn to live with uncertainty, never keeps away from celebrating each festival keeping the sanctity, decorum and love of man-kind remaining intact.
In the nights when the blue sky up above is embellished with shining stars, in misty nights of December, people shivering with cold but with a hilarious mood- even the sweaters they wear during nights won’t be of much help to them to escape from the needling of the cold winds, but their unfailing faith and devotion in Jesus Christ never fades out. On the contrary, the happenings and enthusiasm always remain strong. Faith is always a great moving force.
So let’s still hope for bright future atleast to the coming generations. Hope always there must be. It creates wonders.
Let us hope for a bright tomorrow always and extend merry X’mas to each other, celebrate, get inebriated as is the practice on every 25 December.
And then comes, a new dawn on 1st January 2009, and the current year’s auditing might be going on somewhere by somebody with haunting memories of the previous year which was turbulent through out. But we never lose hope and expectations…
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