Basic Newton’s laws of motion applied to a public issue

Ramesh Ramanathan has good piece on “unveiling of the statue of Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar” in Bangalore.

• The “social conflicts can only happen through political processes. Politics is, therefore, not a bad word, but a term that we need to embrace more and more, as we begin to talk more openly about our conflicts, and seek their resolution. The Thiruvalluvar statue issue was not one that could have been resolved informally by two groups of people sitting and having tea and samosas—the underlying emotions ran deep, the conflicts had a genuine core which were exacerbated by other factors. The other examples I listed earlier also fall into the same category.”