Humans have always warred, wars have always resulted in horrible sufferings and yet the warring urge remains intact in them. Humans claim they are the only civilised animals, but no other animal species wages wars against its kind and causes great destruction and sufferings as Homo sapiens does. Wars and war talk always remind me of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, “the single-most poignant true-life story to emerge from the Second World War”, which describes the misery and destruction wars bring on the innocent. On July 15, 1944, Anne wrote in her Diary named Kitty: “It is utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. On August 4, 1944, Anne, together with her father, mother, sister and others, was captured by Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, from the Secret Annexe where they had been hiding for two years.

Source: The Hindu November 04, 2023 23:49 UTC