‘BULLET FOR BULLET’ is a thought provoking title. India is blessed with “unity in diversity.” But now a thick curtain of silence has descended on the blood-soaked landscape of India. Once she believed in Gandhian principles. But today she has no other way rather than to hug war and destruction on both hands. The struggle to transcend violence is one that appears to be a persistent challenge in human societies at all times.
Violence is a term written and heard on a daily basis. Today there is a tendency for ‘bullet for bullet’, ‘violence for violence’, and ‘blood for blood’. Everyone declares “You give me a bullet, I’ll give you one in return! Enemies have to be treated as enemies.” Julio Ribeiro writes about the same theme with extraordinary candor in his book “Bullet for Bullet”. He says “Bullets kill! Do not attempt to dodge them in real life… because you won’t.” Once we pull that trigger, there’s no way to get that round back. “Bullets You Can’t Get Back. ” Sir Walter Scott quotes “ Every bullet has its billet”. A bullet is so easy to fire. A bullet can do so much damage. A bullet can’t be taken back, even if it’s a verbal bullet. “Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” On the contrary anyone can shot a bullet but no one can bring proper healing to that homicide.
The Essay on Psychological effects on women victims of domestic violence
Campbell, Jacquelyn el “Intimate Partner Violence and Physical health Consequences”. Archives of Internal Medicine 162i 10 Article 7 (2002) The research was: “Intimate Partner Violence and Physical Health Consequence” where researchers were examining how violence affects a woman’s short term as well long term physical wellbeing. This study explored the area of abused and non abused women ...
Terrorism or violence is a result of group which wants to replace Democratic frameworks with medieval Theocratic ideologies. In Golden Temple Massacre there were bloody massacre of Sikhs and destruction of sikhdom’s holiest shrines. Many innocent people became scapegoats in that massacre. September 11 2001 has become the milestone of violence for the 21st century. The destruction of WTO and Pentagon was horribly done by al-Qaeda. It worked well in 2002 when the Pakistan army moved away from the Afghan border to meet the Indian mobilisation, thereby allowing al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taleban to escape from Afghanistan and consolidate their positions in the tribal areas.
In Mumbai if Lashkar-e-Toiba is indeed responsible for the attacks – as Indian authorities claim and Pakistan denies – it will be the second time that the group has single-handedly put the two countries on a war footing. In 2002 each mobilised one million men for nearly a year after Lashkar attacked the Indian parliament. It will certainly be difficult for the two countries to walk away from the brink . It has taken time to understand that local extremists now pose a far greater danger.
Violence may indeed be “necessary” in the face of an Adolf Hitler. The demonic immensity of the crimes of Fascism, and of Hitler in particular, leave little room for sympathy or a sense of shared humanity for the Hitler whose sense of “justice” has become so bizarrely perverted, the only alternative, seems to be that he and all his works require tearing out, root and branch. I would even go so far as to say that this develops into an ideology of violence that becomes a monomania and leads with hardly a hesitation to terrorism and a total lack of human feeling for the “enemy.” but the seeds of such insanity are everywhere. And in this regard the violent destruction of “enemies” is ultimately futile.
Don’t be as mad as hell like terrorists. “The bullet that kills me has not yet been cast” ,says Napoleon Bonaparte. He knows bullet + bullet gives total destruction. When destruction commences its terrible dance, no bullet can stop this. Subhash Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh, the two titans of our freedom movement waged a revolutionary armed struggle laced with violence towards the British regime. They advocates violence and bullet for bullet. Bose proclaimed “Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom”. But atlast Gandhiji won the struggle.
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Domestic Violence In a 1998 survey by The Commonwealth Fund, three out of ten women reported that at some point they had been kicked, punched, choked or otherwise physically abused by a spouse or partner (Economic and Social council). In that same year, the U.S. Department of Justice calculated, 876,000 women were battered, five times the rate of men. The Journal of the American Medical ...
The underlying principle of Gandhi’s doctrine of non-violent struggle is persuasion. Non-violence is the only way to genuinely achieve progress, and it is really the element of persuasion that enables it to do this; In Gandhi’s Satyagraha, or non-violent struggle, the whole purpose of the encounter is winning over the heart and mind of your “enemy.” There is violence and suffering in non-violent struggle, but instead of attempting to inflict these upon the “enemy,” we allow the “enemy” to inflict them on us without resistance. By persuasion the “enemy” is converted into a friend, and if this is possible, we need not then fear the “enemy within,” who presumably is won over by the same persuasion. In this way the Pyrrhic victory of a “war to end all war” is avoided, and the illusion and self-deception that the annihilation of our “enemy” means the vindication of our righteousness is prevented. That belief is nothing more than the fundamental Socratic conviction in human ignorance. Gandhi expected success from Satyagraha, “the force of truth.” Beyond Satyagraha faith is laid down, doubt is laid down, good will is laid down, and the thread of genuine progress in history is set aside. Beyond Satyagraha we return to the simple unevolved purpose that we can share with any predator: destruction.
Nobody can win the conflict by violence. It will in the end only alienate the average citizen, and the country will descend into a circle of violence that might bring it to the brink of civil war. What we have to now is a very unhealthy mixture of ordinary protesters mixed up in something that is closer to criminal disobedience. No one can reap anything if one sows the seeds of destruction.
The Essay on The Role Of Truth In Satyagraha Gandhi
The Role of Truth in Satyagraha Gandhi developed a method of direct social action based upon principles of courage, nonviolence, and truth. This policy of nonviolent resistance and the search for this truth, is called satyagraha. Truth is soul or spirit; it is a major component in satyagraha. Without truth the entire method of satyagraha will fall apart and therefore, become ineffective. Where ...
Progress requires non-violence. The first thing to ask is what “progress” is supposed to mean. In its most general sense, “progress” mean the amelioration of the human condition. The Buddha, for “progress” and “amelioration” , demanded a reduction in misery and suffering. Anchored in the values of compassion, integrity, and mutual respect we can help the youth to reduce stress, manage anger, and avoid violence. There are no easy answers about how to address the challenges facing young people today, but we feel that the awareness practices provide youth with invaluable resources.
