On May 6th the whole of India, celebrated the declaration of the death sentence of Kasab. The picture of Ujjwal Nikam smiling like a butcher's dog, holding a graphic of a noose to illustrate the demand for his death sentence and mumbaikars beating drums over the declaration was irrational. The whole sequence of events projected an image that 'we Indians are no different from those terrorists'.
It is true that people like Kasab should be removed from the society. I'm sure that the argument of banning 'death sentence' as it is a fatal insult to 'respect for life' and 'beauty of creation' will not stand, especially in this case, as the high cost of holding such a dangerous person alive, fear of another Kandahar etc will come in the way. But i strongly believe that the issue could have been handled with a higher level of sensitivity, without encouraging the irrational emotions of vengeance and hatered.
