While explaining that the Mumbai bomb blasts was a conspiracy to demonise the Muslim community, the renowned Journalist Jitendra Dixit said “The whole community can’t be blamed for an unsocial act of an individual.”
He was expressing his views over his book titled “Bombay After Ayodhya: A City in Flux” released offlate that carries the horrofic accounts of mumbai riots and subsiquent bomb blasts triggered after the demolition of Babri masjid in the year 1993.
Working as Western India Chief in ABP Chennel, Jitendra Dixit was born and brought up in a house close to Masjid Bandar Station near densely populated Muslim majority area of Dongri. He recorded detailed accounts of the horrefic communal riots and the subsequent bomb blasts in his book.
While recalling his childhood incident in his books, Dixit said, “It was a childhood incident when Muslims hold a protest at Muhammed Ali Road against the book titled ‘satanic verses’ written by Salman Rushdi and an indiscremate police firing claimed the lives of 12 Muslim youths. Interestingly, he too was part of the spectators at the protest site and was slightly hurt when a glass bottle was accidentally thrown at him living his foot badly injured.”
However, he said, an avuncular Muslim man took his bleeding body into arms and shifted safely to his house and he never forget the same incident ever in his life.
Dixit penned the whole evolving scenario of Mumbai city after the demolition of Babri Masjid in his book that took him three long years to complete.
While explaining the bloodshed in Kashmir since 1990, the Mumbai riots and the subsequent bomb blasts that ripped apart the city into communal lines, he said, the present scenario has filled people’s hearts with communal hatred. “However, if we still failed to listen the writings on the wall and realise the importance of maintaining peace and harmony among the Hindus and the Muslims, then it will take no longer time when the country will face a civil war like situation wherein we would find ourselves on the verge of destruction,” explained Dixit.
In his book, Dixit also wrote about the gangwars in Mumbai and explained how the whole underworld wrapped under communal colour after the demolition of Babri masjid and the way the political situation equation has changed dramatically.
