On Delhi blasts:

Jignasu heard about the acts of terrorism that extinguished so many lamps of life in the month of ramadan on the eve of diwali..a festival to celebrate victory of knowledge over ignorance, a victory of righteousness against tyranny. How could anyone place a bomb in a public place specifically chosen because there would be many people there, set off the timer and just walk away as if nothing had happened? He felt sad for the families but there was nothing that could be done to compensate their loss. Maniacs like these were the weeds in the society and had to be continuously uprooted as even one rotten apple could spoil the entire basket. When will these mad men realise that killing people will only harden the will of the nation, cannot weaken it. There is not one instance in history of mankind has anyone been able to subjugate other by force. Sure, there are times when power of tyranny wiped the weaker one, but still it was not a win it was just destruction. In contrast, India dominated the culture of china for two millenia without ever having to send a soldier across her borders.
Jnani came in and said, ignorant intoxicated by power always underestimate the stregth and resilence of silent majority. The next day, he heard of reports of people celebrating diwali as a definace to the terrorists and in their own way showed they could not be broken by terror. Closer home, when he saw people light the lamps and struggling to keep them burning against a cold wind, the perserverance of few people to light the extinguished lamps many times a smile came across his face and was reminded of the couplet Jnani told a long time ago:

Woh hamein rulakar has na paye der tak,
jab hum ro kar muskuraye der tak.
(They couldnt laugh for long at us after making us cry,
For we smiled for a long time after we cried.)