Beyond the Headlines: Pahalgam Attack Exposes Deeper Cracks and The Root Causes We Ignore

I didn’t want to add to the noise when we are already feeling overwhelmed. Yesterday, a client shared how her professor compared a group of female students to terrorists, simply because of their expected medical expertise. It broke my heart. Constant negativity from social media and news is affecting our emotional-psychological health. I struggled with whether to speak or stay silent. But looking at the chaos around us, I felt it's important to help people make sense of all of this.

Last weekend, a Hindu extremist asked to meet me. We spoke about caste, religion, and many other issues we see in the country today. It’s good to share opinions — that’s how we grow as humans. We were discussing how the Pune's Metro is taking forever to complete, and one comment caught my attention: "Abhi sabki jeb bhari nahi hogi toh time aur lagega, aur sarkar bhi toh badli bich mein." Alert, taxpayers!

While discussing the caste and religious divide today, he said, "Why do anything? Nothing will change." I was baffled. Was he telling me to just sit back and watch? Then I shared how my articles helped shift focus in my circle from hatred to real issues. But now, I regret mentioning that hatred was decreasing. Soon after, the Pahalgam incident happened, and the incident again used to deepen divisions. 

The whole world is against Islamic terrorism me personally against all Abrahamic religion and anyone who use same MO even if they are Hindu's. But then what Muslims did is terror attack then killing of Muslims Christians on purpose is common incidents are In India in the name in Divine Justice since last 10 years. Then what is that? For instance, Chetan Chaudhary, an RPF jawan, killed three Muslims, another incident where Hindus are dancing and with swords and shouting in front of Mosque, another incident of public punishing of Muslim Man, another incident of Muslim man killed by Hindu extremists. There are so many incidents like these. Not just Muslims crime against Christians, Dalits, Adivasi have increased too. And yes, women's as well! So, what's your definition of terrorism? 

We also have Pragya Thakur, Lawrence Bishnoi, and Bahubali's maintained by Politicians. We also have mobs to lynch people. We have also turned our youth into religious fighters by keeping them uneducated and unemployed. Isn't that same MO of any poor Abrahamic religious country? 

Difference — Muslims at-least admit their terror boldly to the world, but Hindus keep justifying and hiding atrocities. Isn’t that mean and cowardly? Then we wonder why Hindus face hatred worldwide. We ourselves ruined our reputation. It's sad world learned from India and became ethical, moral and better human. Whears we are slowly turning into animals completely lacking sensitivity and kind of taking sadistic pleasure when a Muslim, Christians and Dalit is killed. The environment is like any other poor Abrahamic religion country just that the religion name is Hinduism. 

These poor Kashmiri Muslims, struggling in poverty, rely on tourism for their living are the ones who helped the Hindu tourists. They open their homes for Hindus for shelter, food, free transport, and emotional-psychological support. Wasn't it easy to kill them all instead of taking care of them? Meanwhile, airlines tripled their fares. Not even PM’s came to help. Was it completely out of reach of PMs reach to instruct the Airlines not to raise fares and prioritize helping the needy Hindu families. 

The news media, too, showed its dirty side. Just days ago, Mirror Now announced it was shutting down, Rahul Kanwal moved to NDTV over TRP issues, Arnab Goswami considered moving to digital spaces who was celebrating after Pulwama as he got so much content, and Sudhir Chaudhary spoke about working on a startup idea. But now, it seems like they've got people hooked on mainstream media again. TRP fixed, business as usual. The reason why it’s called Brahman-Baniya Vaad.

Our PM was in Saudi discussing the Pahalgam attack with the Crown Prince. Isn’t Saudi known for funding terrorist activities? TRF, which claimed responsibility for the attack, is a branch of Lashkar-e-Taiba which was founded by Osama Bin Laden, who had links to wealthy Arab families. What's with Muslims, they tell us Muslims are enemy and other way they make them win elections too. Thats what happened in Maharashtra elections. 

Lately, my articles have focused mainly on the caste system, deeply rooted in Brahminism, Hinduism, Hindutva, and Hindu Rashtra (whatever name you prefer). Many others too raising their voices against it, movies like Phule and Santosh highlighted the caste issue. The narrative "they asked about religion, not caste" is damaging. It diminishes the significance of the caste issue, shifting focus back to religion and making caste seem unimportant. This undermines the gravity of the caste problem and diverts attention from how deeply ingrained it is.

The massacre of Kashmiri Pandits is often discussed, as is the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy. We feel sympathy for Black slavery and call the atrocities against Jews the greatest crime against humanity. However, the more I study chaturvarnya AKA term caste atrocities, more convinced I become that it is the biggest and most heinous crime against Humanity. Which has been systematically sidelined and maintained too. The caste issue is India's is Achilles' heel, slowly killing the nation from within. We forgot that deep caste divisions was a major reason we fell under colonial rule. Sadly, history seems to be repeating itself, and it should not be a surprise if anyone takes advantage of it. Looks like Hindus are biggest enemies of themselves! 

Only when you understand the systematic slavery in India do you truly grasp what is happening today. Almost every major problem in the country traces back to this deep-rooted marginalization. Chaturvarnya was designed to maintain a permanent ruling class, a permanent tax-paying class, and a permanent slave class and is just replica of that. Whether it’s costly education, overwork demands, deforestation, corruption, lack of civic sense, unemployment, rape culture, violence, poverty, or even issues like Kashmir and Manipur — all have their roots in this system. We just need to look closer and think critically to see the connection. If Hindus were not considered slaves, then politicians would be sensitives to Hindus dying, then they wouldn't walk on red carpet or attend election rallies. Same when Hindus were sent in chain by USA, we would not have poor attitude!

The lack of Army recruitment, as pointed out by General Bakshi, is also rooted in caste and slavery. Issues like low pay, poor facilities for jawans, and even the problematic Agniveer scheme all trace back to the same mindset — viewing people as slaves. Most jawans come from poor, marginalized backgrounds, yet they are treated badly. Jawan Chandu Chavan had to protest over basic issues and still wasn’t given the respect he deserved. No matter what official explanations are given, the underlying reason remains the same: discrimination and slavery.

Everyone deserves to hold their own beliefs, and they should be respected. But truth must shine its light on the darkness of ignorance. In a democracy, the media should be the torchbearer of that truth. Sadly, what "Tikka Masala journalism" does today is nothing but Intellectual Prostitution. I wonder, how far will we go just to turn Hindus against Muslims, or to keep caste system in place. Violence have never brought real solutions; it only brings more violence — In the end every war ended with people sitting down and finding a peaceful solution.

Violence is business and fear is a tool control masses, don't let the hatred win! Below, I am sharing something Buddha said long ago — you can Google the meaning if you wish!

"नहि वेरेण वेराणि सम्मन्तीध कुदाचनं;
अवेरेण च सम्मन्ति, एस धम्मो सनन्तनो।
एतं बुद्धानं सासनं।"