NON VIOLENCE IS NOT NO VIOLENCE!

क्षमा शोभती उस भुजंग को जिसके पास गरल हो
उसको क्या जो दंतहीन, विषरहित , विनीत, सरल हो!
सहनशीलता, क्षमा, दया को तभी पूजता जग है,
बल के दर्प चमकता उसके पीछे जब जगमग है!

These are a couple of lines from a poem by a well known hindi poet, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar. I am no poet for one,neither anyone with a great literary sense nor do I have much space at the top to understand as to what most people narrate in the form of prose. But when my colleague, Dr.Rajeshwary, narrated these lines during one of our "discussions", it just made so much sense in my life as well as that of India.
Lets start about India.I think in the name of resilience, we have been just trying to avoid facing these terrorist outfits which has made us look weak and meek in the international arena. All it takes to avoid any noise from our quarter is to send an emissary from the powerhouse of the world (and that's USA as we all know) and we sit tight in the corner thinking we have done enough and then its time for us to keep silent and lie still waiting to be shaken up from the slumber by another attack on not just the citizens but our pride as a nation.And that's how we have come to be taken as a QUIET nation still dwelling on the pride of being non-violent. I think its time to redefine this term NON-VIOLENCE. We have to vehemently make the world aware that NON VIOLENCE does not mean NO VIOLENCE . We need to instill the fear of our toughness too and not just get into a jumble of words when attacked.
I guess its the same in our lives to as individuals.Sometimes we just find people taking advantage of us and our manners making it our weakness rather than a virtue. We all need to realise that its not an ideal world and so there are times we need to assert our rights and say it loud when its wrong because its not just doing the wrong which is not right but not doing the right is also wrong.
When the two great mythologies,the Mahabharata and Ramayana, preach about good prevailing over evil even if it requires a war to get that result, isn't it time for us to once again to prove that its time for the good to prevail over the evil by taking the right measures??