Every act of violence and terrorism is depraved and it affects the innocent common people more than others as the intended targets are in more or less safe places. This is true everywhere. The recent bomb blast in Bangalore and Ahmedabad claimed the lives of scores of innocent people and injured many more.

The helpless injured and the affected families have no consolation. There is no way for them to reconcile with what has happened to them and the cause behind such calamities, whatsoever it is.

It is said that death is the great leveler, and the deaths of the young and old, men and women, rich and poor, and healthy and unhealthy in the recent incidents of violence only prove this further.

The wailing relatives that never even thought of losing their near and dear ones so suddenly could never ever forget the loss till the ends of their lives.

The picture shows two fruit vendors in Ahmedabad lying dead on the road the moment after a bomb went off near the place where they usually did business for a livelihood. The innocent young man and woman have died on the harness of their profession, while the onlookers gaze from a safe distance.

“Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)

“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.” - Mahatma Gandhi

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