India is heavily participating in the Iran War; no. not by negotiating the shortage of LPG cylinders but by harassing, molesting, beating and even killing Muslims in their homes, shops, streets, schools, colleges and as they travel by bus, train or tempo. In all the BJP ruled states, riots happen every day. Hence, it is only to be expected that retaliation is also merciless when Hindu youths are being killed almost for no reason as in case of Tarun in Delhi. Genetically of the same origin, Bangladesh is on a killing spree of Hindus. Ruling political parties in both these countries tacitly are scripting the Holocaust. The intellectuals in both these countries are turning a blind eye respectively. Just like the street corner boys play cricket in gullies of the neighbourhood when the World Cup is streamed on air, we are also killing our minorities as our gully participation in war. We are fighting the war by decapitating Muslims and in Bangladesh by beheading Hindus. Wonderful game play without any concern of an impending fuel crisis; just as we would be oblivious of the difficulties of war when we were young and cherished the fighting as extrapolated exaggeration of game play.

The problem with such civil war is that it uses the principles of cell division. Once started, it tries to divide further. Now Dalits are under systematic violence as a Dalit youth was killed by an upper caste Brahmin family in UP for wishing them Happy Holi, a woman claiming to be upper caste is filmed beating up a lower caste boy in a train compartment. Krishna encouraged division among the Purus into the Pandavs and Kauravs, and the Jadu clan diminished itself in a civil war. You fight against “others” and the “othering” never stops; it starts to divide into still smaller identities – much like the principle of cell division.

But the civil war is kept secret because the moment it comes out into the open, we might face the Nuremburg. Pathetic constructions of Muslim oppression in centuries old invasions, in decades old Partition are like imaging ghosts to feel the sense of fear. Everyone is seeking to fear something or the other. Everything in the everyday is scary. This may be called the sociology of fear, the most opportunistic excuse to turn violent. Those who manufacture fear, circulate fear and masturbate in it are looking to turn violent. This might be something new – violence as agency and not as a reaction. Fear is stirred up within, anxiety is whipped up – signs of masochistic sadism, victimizing oneself to violate the other. This war of victimhood generation and then victim creation is an international war, fought in India as the cosmos of the world. Such a world as India’s can no longer be a peace mediator and this is the final word.

No one can stop the war because no one sees their larger role for the future of humanity and no one can see this because people are fighting, not an economic war, nor a political one but a religious war; Jews are desiring to decimate Islam, Islam is trying to overpower Judaism. The Middle east is territorial and tribal, but there is a clash of civilizations here over world views and world rule. When powers clash over God, there is no fear of death or demolition; drugged with the fervour of fundamentalism, these wars are to end all wars. In such wars, humans become the cannon fodder of some ideology, they are beside themselves in unquenchable anger. Here no reason can enter and hence negotiations are closed.

The only country which could have really worked things out was perhaps India. Its long legacy of Nehru and the Congress of secularism and non-alignment and above all its history of a non-violent mass movement with a successful democracy together with the large population, both at home and spread across the world, gives the country a moral authority to seek a global regrouping of antiwar forces. India can and India should redefine global politics through its commitment to peace where it can rally countries around it to say that let the new UN charter speak against aggression of any country against any other and if and when aggression is absolutely needed especially in violation of human rights and liberty, then let the comity of nations decide the nature, extent, timing of that aggression along with a protocol of prewar negotiations and treaties. Unfortunately, India, despite having inherited this legacy has let go of its power because it has divested of all that its inheritance bore namely, secularism, non-violence and non-alignment.

Indian intellectuals are confused and media is silent for this is a war that neither can understand. This is because, India is no longer out of this war and is very much a part of the anti-Islamic genocidal pogrom that it is playing within its own borders.