Update 11.45 am, IST
Mangalore Buzzes Back to Life
Oct 11: Every bad experience has a good outcome; a lesson to learn. The week-long trouble that befell Mangalore has several lessons to learn. The inconveniences and the misery that it brought will be remembered for decades.
As each day passes by the fear psychosis which was seen from the day the curfew was imposed seem to have reduced.
On Wednesday the smiles returned as Mangalore buzzed again with activity.
Back to square one, children went to school. Overcrowded buses, lorries with essential commodities entering Mangalore and traffic jams once again became the order of the day.
The adults were glad that their city is now peaceful. The children were happy to meet their classmates and friends in school. The young blood was enthused about the fact that their independence was restored.
There is still uncertainty on the lifting of section 144 and night curfew.
Updated 8-30 am
City 'Limping' Back to Normalcy; Oh, Really?
- Schools and colleges open, Night curfew may continue longer
by Richie Lasrado
Oct 11: With the five black days behind us, there could be a proud thought making rounds that the city is turning into its original, 'normal' state. There could also be kind of a complacency, with people saying that Mangalore has a built-in resilience to withstand such momentary shocks and aberrations. Is it realy so?
Life was all right for people living in mansions who had fridges and freezers with food stored for weeks altogether. But, for those who depended on daily wages and small jobs for daily subsistence, it was a different story. For the dependents of those lost their lives and those whose shops and other means of livelihood were destroyed during the disturbances, life will not be normal nor the same again.
While the actual perpertrators of trouble have gone scotfree, life is not the same for those poor, less-read people who never knew what curfew was and ventured into the open looking for ways to earn their daily bread and got beaten up brutally by the cane-wielding police from outside the district.
There are all indications that the night curfew will remain in force for a few more days. A few minor incidents did take place during the relaxation timings on Monday and Tuesday, but they may have had nothing to do with the disturbances. Incidentally, one thing that becomes clear is that the disturbances were taken advantage of some people to settle old scores and that it had nothing to do with the communal flare-up, feel a few citizens.
In the meantime, we can only wait and watch.
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