Is there a way out?

Sometimes I feel so helpless....at not being able to contribute or suggest something that would mitigate all the senseless violence that is carried out in the name of rights for communities or states or other sundry factions we have put ourselves in. Can we ever get out of the vicious cycle we've got into?

I just heard of the massacre in Sonitpur from my mom (gave the papers a miss yesterday & this morning). How can they live with the blood of so many innocents on their hands? My blood curdles at the cold-blooded manner of killing. Imagine returning from work, looking forward to spending time with your family, when your vehicle is stopped, you are asked to line up, you are segregated on the basis of your language and killed, because you are not a native speaker. Such a wasteful way to die. Can we really take pride in our identity if it is the very thing that kills us? I dare imagine the guilt mixed with the relief the ones who were spared must be swamped with.

I don't know who is at fault. I don't know if there is an absolute true answer to that. But it's not what I want our future to be like. I don't want to anticipate a future where we are so divided and assailed by revenge that we don't care "how many civilians or armed forces we kill in retaliation for one life taken."