Sheer Nonsense

Relics on public display

Here is a quote from an article published in the 9th November issue of the Bhutantoday, a daily news paper in Bhutan. It talks about an incident where a Police Officer, in the midst and rage of managing or mismanaging crowd gathered to get a glimpse of Buddha and his disciples' relics brought all the way from India, bashed one student black and blue.

Close up of the relic

"An editor of a print media who was at the scene on October 4 in Tendrelthang said the police were facing a tough time managing the crowd. “I have no comments on what happened. But the police were under duress.  If the crowd was not controlled there were even chances of the relics being damaged, which is worse than people losing lives,” 

It is the second sentence of the paragraph that bothered me and I am picking on it. 

It's MY TWO CENTS again, ..wait a minute,-- Did that editor,whoever he/she may be, really say that "damaging relics would be worse than losing lives? You got to be kidding. It can't be true. If not for nothing, an editor of a print media can't go that wrong by any chance. It is got to be a misquote as it's often a case and it is only proper that it is corrected in whatever ways deemed appropriate. But for some reason, if the editor did say that, I condemn him/her from the marrow of my bone and I condemn the paper for providing space for such a sheer nonsense. 

Crowd that day- it's was chaotic indeed. 

I say non sense because; firstly, relics displayed there are bone remains of Buddha and his two disciples and by nature, even if they are precious, they are not at all delicate and destructible. Secondly, the way the so called editor, goes about placing importance to the non-living things as against the living beings, that too with human lives is something that I cannot comprehend and rationalize.