It has been a week since the London riots. As is any person, I was shocked as well. Being an Indian, riots are not new to me. We have had many riots of varying severities in India in the past. But the difference between those and the one that occurred in London was that every riot in the past had a cause; religion related, language related or region related. But this one had none what so ever. It was only a primitive instinct of the species taking over its long evolved civilization. Man looting man with an intention to acquire goods. This could be empathized if it was backed by necessity, but no it was sheer greed. The desire for materialistic stuff had overcome the virtues deep within, if there were any! So much for the consumerism and materialism. Shame.
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