A letter to the perpetrators of the Delhi Blasts

Dear Terrorists,
You think you have brought glory to your movement by taking 22 innocent lives. You think the news coverage you got is your success. You think you might succeed in dividing our people again. You think in some way your actions have touched India.

Let me tell you this. India is more than the lives you have claimed. India is more than its government. It is more than its petty politicians. It is more than the police you have taunted. It is more than the news channels whose attention is more valuable to you than your own mission. It is more than a country, more than a set of religions, more than the ocean that takes its name. It is more than its history, its misery and the billion people that inhabit it.

India is an idea that burns steadily in the minds of a billion souls. Your bombs may claim our bodies, but they cannot touch this idea.

You sent taunting emails to news channels. Now hear my challenge to you: Do whatever you can. Use your most powerful weapons and your dirtiest tricks and every power and resource you have. I dare you to touch this idea. I dare you to look into my mind and see how I revere this idea and then I dare you to make one change … just one change to this idea. Not a complete change, not a reversal, not a complete conversion, just one change. I dare you to make just one change and you will know that you are powerless. Your actions are meaningless. Deep down -you already know it.

You have one hope: – renounce violence and surrender to peace and love.

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