The Culture Of Violence Must End — Reclaiming Gandhi’s Path Of Non

With the growing number of mass shooting incidents happening across major powerful countries in the recent past, there is an environment of fear and anguish all across the world. Everyone will have their own assessment and opinion of these incidents.

However, what we, as a society, need to understand is that these acts should be opposed by the masses in a louder way so that it reaches policymakers who actually have the power to stop such incidents.

We all know that religious beliefs greatly influence our perceptions and attitudes. Hence, the commonly held belief that violence is justified to obtain your rightful due, or for victory of good over evil, and its corollary that good has to be more violent than evil so as to defeat it, need to be re-considered.

Because if we as a society enco