Author: Busybee
Publication: Afternoon Despatch
& Courier
Date: February 5, 2001
Last night, on Star News you must
have seen a foreigner, a member of one of the rescue reams, paying handsome
tributes to the people of Gujarat. He said that he had been on scene at
several national tragedies, in Sarajevo at the time of the mammoth human
exodus and in Palestine during a major crisis, but nowhere had he seen
people behave with greater discipline as in Bhuj. Many of them who had
lost everything, including the rest of the members of their family, suffered
silently and, if not with resignation, somewhere near it. The only emotion
they showed was returning, in the darkness of the night, to the site where
their homes once stood.
Not being an Indian, he would not
know that was the way of Hinduism and of all those who came under its influence.
You suffer silently and with dignity.
