Fisticuffs over food was unjust at such occasions like when faith is dear to both

 

Mobilenews24x7 Bureau

It was avoidable clash between the rationalists and the traditionalist over eating the cooked food on the Lunar eclipse.

Faith is an option that relates to sometimes individual or a group. But people or a community of any section have no right to demonstrate any gesture of insult or grimace at the other.

Firstly, neither the traditionalists nor the rationalists have any logic to super-impose their thought or practice on the other or any act in public domain to demean the other with intent.

Suppose, on a solar eclipse or lunar eclipse, there are certain traditions those people follow out of religious or traditional reasons albeit there is no codified rules laid down in any religious scriptures.

So that limits to them and they have every right to adhere to that practice of avoiding cooked food, let alone the debate over veg or non-veg.

Likewise, the rationalist who proffer the ground of science that nothing such happens metabolically or religiously if one consumes cooked food, they have every reason to go by that.

But, making it in public, cooking biriyani or whatsoever and make a show of it to deliberately mock at the ones who believe in traditions of centuries old, also negates the realms of rational thinking.

Administration had a role  

If at all they decided to eat, they could have done it in private but not making it out in the open as a mocking dismissal of some who stick to traditions. That, perhaps, was not called for.

What happened in Bhubaneswar or Berhampur was in bad taste and could have been checked by the local authorities by not allowing such deliberate events to take place when there was a likelihood of fisticuffs.

Fair enough that science does not plead against eating cooked food, but why making a farcical show taking science as a resting crutch.