Your Anniversary issue (The Sunday Indian 14th October 2007) made a reminiscence reading. You made it outstanding with a good number of intelligent thoughts, at this happy occasion. It was indeed a great read. The 1922 Chauri Chaura insurrections to the 2007 Fratricide stories reveals the real identity of human nature. Those horrifying incidents brought out an answer to the big question—Are human beings cruel aggressive power-hungry by nature, wolves in sheep’s clothing? Man even after tamed by social laws is often behaving like a jungle beast. Probably man is the only example of being which kills members of its own species wantonly. He has “progressed” to such and extent that killing is now a sophisticated art. The chilling terror of riots, followed by the ghostly silence of curfew, and then the bitter aftermath of prejudice and ignorance that leaves thousands of people homeless and thousands dead. This has been India’s nightmare since independence. Yet in the midst of this few men and women have dared to believe that India would one day be a peaceful country. Violence has grown and spread like wildfire. In the midst of the noise of shooting and killing, rioting and looting, the voice of secular India Gandhiji and others dreamed is strangely silent,