Perhaps, people of the subcontinent and in particular of our beloved country have the highest propensity to self-destruct. We take a certain pleasure in hurting ourselves. We endlessly indulge in sawing the branches we are perched upon. As a Nation we are extremely weak in anger management.

We let emotions override sanity and reason. Our reactions are invariably knee-jerk to any situation of chaotic challenge. We have tendency to take our eyes off from an issue and instead put all focus on the surrounding circumstances.

Our behavioural responses are akin to a scenario where we fight amongst ourselves to identify who lit the fire, instead of first extinguishing the raging fire. In the process we get consumed. We uniquely possess skills and abilities to provoke the inherent and intrinsic tendencies to self-destruct. We take a wily pleasure in giving pain to others, without realising the pain shall ultimately be ours.

Our passions run so high that if we are against or angry with Paul, we find the first available Peter, who may have not the remotest connection or relevance to Paul and then beat the hell out of him. In doing so, we foolishly imagine that Paul would experience the pain, injury and insult inflicted upon Peter. This entire thought process and relative reaction is nothing except absurdity of Himalayan proportion. I will elaborate this behaviour.

Self-destructive tendencies and behaviour point towards a deep-seated medical condition. As a nation we have this ‘medical condition’ since our independence. We have in the last 77 years never missed, even by default, an opportunity to cause self-harm and pain.

Since we have within us a dead conscience in a live physical self, our sense of shame is also perennially on the pyre of our collective misfortune that encompasses our daily lives. The wound that bleeds inwardly and internally is most dangerous.

Diligence is the mother of all good fortune. We haven’t been able to discover yet the art and science of protest. There are in other societies a codified behaviour that must be adhered to when protesting for any cause, right or wrong, good or bad is not the issue, but the method of conveying protest is.

Only a vile mind can inflict pain upon fellow human. Our protest methodology involves extermination,........

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