Staying united holds key

The open air plaza of our college, the most favourite place for all the students that is always bubbling with some activity, looked gloomy.

There was silence despite the large presence of students, teachers and others who gathered there. It was a week after the terror attack on the country’s financial capital – Mumbai.

Everybody was haunted by the wild images of suffering, tension, battle, defeat that were being telecast on the television for the past few days.

The silence of everyone was in fact revealing a lot that the heinous attacks have ‘numbed’ the financial capital of India. Perhaps it is insufficient description of something which has shattered hundreds of families across the nation. These in fact have ‘numbed’ the entire nation”. I could read the feelings from my friends faces that though Mumbai witnessed this cruelty the pain was taken across India irrespective of region and religion.

Needless to say it is Mother India who silently sheds tears of agony, pain for her bereaved and suffering children.

Now it is over but there is no end to the suffering as the damage has been done. On the positive note the last few days have led to another emotional episode for all the Indians as a whole because we were reminded that we are the children of one mother – India.

There was a candle light vigil to pay a tribute to all those who laid down their lives. We prayed that the souls of all those brave and unfortunate rest in peace. And after that there was a unanimous word in the air that we should cancel all the celebrations including the scheduled Freshers Party, which remains in the memories of every student during their life time.

Our decision to forgo the celebrations may be only a drop in the ocean but we take it as an initiative from the entire student community to repel these kinds of attacks. And I agree that we being the face of tomorrow’s nation, mere repulsion is not sufficient.

“United we rule, divided we fall” goes a saying…So, we also emphasised on the concept of staying united in the wake of these kind of attacks and also acting responsible for what is happening around us at least as a token of respect for all those who laid down their lives to save us. With every student transforming as a more responsible individual, we can drive away these attacks and the day when we can restore the entire glory of mother India is not far away. Jai Hind!

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