We are not violent, they are deaf and blind.

There is a "frightening trend of violent revolutions," wrote S Shekhar. He focuses on recent agitations in Gujarat, Haryana and Rajasthan because of differences between castes which ended in deaths of many protesters. "Needless to say, the fabric of the Indian nation state is endangered after every such violent outbreak." Recently there was a call for Bharat Bandh, which means an all India shutdown, against reservation in government jobs and in higher education for people of lower castes. Naturally, those who benefit from such reservations violently opposed the strike. "So, there was retaliatory violence in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan the day after the Bharat Bandh." But violent protests are not new in India. An armed revolution by villagers against local landlords in Naxalbari in Bengal continues to smolder to this day. Born in Bengal it spread to many states as poor peasants responded with violence against injustice of the state. According to the latest government figures 90 districts are still affected by Left Wing Extremism. The people of Tamil Nadu are protesting against, what they see as, North Indian  conspiracy against the South. All the Southern states are infuriated by the terms of reference of the 15th Finance Commission which has been asked to use the 2011 census to allocate funds to different states. Even in a nation where violence is a daily occurrence the rape and murder of a child has been especially shocking, prompting 49 retired civil servants to write to the Prime Minister to improve functioning of the government. Why are people angry and what has the murder of a child to do with politics? It is because politicians deliberately divide people according to religion and caste in order to get votes, wrote an editorial in the Mint. Recently, the Congress government of Karnataka classified Lingayats, a Hindu community, as 'minority' in an effort to divide Hindus who are seen as supporters of the BJP. After the attack on Mumbai by terrorists from Pakistan, in which around 170 people were killed, Digvijay Singh of the Congress continued to claim that right wing Hindus killed Hemant Karkare of the Anti Terror Squad. Yesterday, 5 men accused of planting a bomb in a mosque in Hyderabad in 2007 were freed by the judge as the prosecution failed to prove its case. "For its appeasement politics, the Congress targeted and defamed Hindus and the country for merely some votes," said the BJP while the Congress blamed the BJP for influencing the investigating agencies to spoil the case. It took 25 years for women in a village in Tamil Nadu to obtain justice in a case of mass rape committed in 1992. Those who can escape to other countries, wrote R Seth, the rest of us suffer the tyranny of politicians. Hence the violence.