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The Solution to Communal Conflict

of realism. Here, in this world, if you want to obtain a
certain result, you will have to be entirely in harmony
with the principles and laws of nature. Given this,
people who derive great pride and pleasure in falsely
blaming others are bound to be bereft of realism. They
will have no status left in the real world. People who
keep blaming others for their woes always prove to be
a cause for strife and conflict. The government of the
country where they live, or the people who live around
them, may do 99 things properly, but if the government
or other people falter on just one thing, they whip up
such a furore as if that is the only thing they know how
to do!
The writer Robert Multhoff says something very
interesting. He writes:

He who likes to generalize generally lies.
If you make a generalization on the basis of an isolated
event, you are giving that exception the status of a general
rule. For instance, something happens as a matter of
chance but you claim that it is a general phenomenon.
If you easily resort to making such generalizations, you
will soon come to inhabit a false world, a world of lies.
And you will never be able to find Truth or to arrive at
the right solutions to your problems.

Often, newspapers come out with bold headlines:
‘Communal Riots in India!’, ‘Riots in Aligarh!’, ‘Riots
Break Out in Hyderabad!’ Despite being true, such
news reports are always also false. They tell the truth,
but not the whole of it, because no communal riot
ever engulfs the whole country or even the whole of

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