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Communal Imbalance in our society!

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Photo by <a href="https://visualhunt.com/author/0577cd">Redfishingboat (Mick O)</a> on <a href="https://visualhunt.com/re/2e03c0">VisualHunt</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/"> CC BY-NC</a> Disturbed, disdained, distorted and divided in opinion with people on the violence that has marred Maharashtra over the past many days. Cities coming to a standstill, leaders of right wing groups agitating mobs, who pelt stones at average people, just to create a tense situation and leave the social fabric tattered.  I'm not getting into details of why the clashes began, which was unfortunately incited during the celebration, or commiseration of the  Battle of Koregaon , 200 years ago. One section of society calls it their  watershed moment , while the other call it a  loss of sheen moment  for their ancestors.  Such was the difference of opinion between these two sections of society, which...