In My Country, India, terrorism is found at the borders of Kashmir as well as in other areas. A recent article from a local newspaper, The Hindu, said the attack on India's parliament on December 13 "is comparable, as noted by commentators here and abroad, with September 11. In both the cases, the motive and objective was the same—to strike at the country's icons.... [In] New York and Washington it was a high-tech operation, and in New Delhi a crude exercise." The Hindu, December 18, 2001 .
The task of healing the ills of nations seems great. Often the cause is rivalry for political and economic control. This stems from large-scale fear, envy, greed. But a radical change of thought can save humanity from the threat of terrorism.
One day, when I was in my office in Hyderabad, my son telephoned me from home to say that some troublemakers had entered my colony of Chaitanyapuri and had been threatening the residents with knives. All this had happened near our house. When people gathered and tried to oppose them, the troublemakers ran off. But on their way, two of them stabbed a resident to death, before escaping into the grassy fields behind our colony. I was shocked to hear this, and returned home in a hurry.
