I met a 22-year-old at a camp in Chamanpark yesterday. He has an appointment letter from @HDFC_Bank as a trainee. He was supposed to join today. 'I can't join because of the riots. My career is over,' he said. 'They hung up on me when I told them of the situation here'
"Rioters had surrounded the entire area. They were climbing into homes. I don't know how I saved my sisters and brought them here. They are spreading terror under the chants of Jai Sri Ram. Ram was a patient man unlike them. They are terrorizing us...
They are killing Indians in India saying they are protecting India. Our grandparents, our great grandparents lived and died here. We too have to die here. We've been thrown out of Shiv Vihar. But will stay put in India,' he said.
He kept asking why the administration and the police did not intervene in time.
It's not just material lives that have been destroyed in the riots in Delhi. Futures have been gutted. Families have been brought to ruin. Hopes and dreams have been torched.
The trauma of these riots will stay with each of us for generations.
The trauma of these riots will stay with each of us for generations.
