Dr. Sengupto, think of how would you like to define a human being, in any circumstances. Ask yourself if anyone would need your medicines if they were belligerent. Feel grateful you have patients like Suddha to prescribe medicines for. But also think of your own diseases and who would doctor your problems. I wonder if medical science has any prescription for nationalism. Maybe it is about doctors who are ALSO nationalists – two irreconcilable professions – with one feeding the other without mutual help. How sick can it get Doctor.

I guess you are being sarcastic! Anyway that quote isn’t mine but Suddha’s. But you are right about my love for aphorisms. Though, just to let you know, I was simply trying to provoke the man to respond. The definition of a terrorist is well put in that statement, but I found it kind of obvious, so wanted to see if an explanation of the obvious is more interesting.

When we say that we will not tolerate terror anymore, let us show it by spreading economic opportunities and rational education in the whole world. Let us overcome the terror launched by the public media who call for military action.