There was once a community that lived together in the same complex, who’s name meant “God is with us”, which came together in fellowship and prayer and to celebrate important feasts ans events. For over eight years they did so with great enthusiasm and fervour.
Now for administrative reasons, the powers to be decided to split the community into two, as it would be difficult for the new coordinator to manage such a big community. So the community was divided into two but was allowed to have their celebrations and fellowship together. Except each community would be managed by a different set of animators from those societies in the complex (that fell in that community).
Now this split began to cause a fissure and sowed the seeds of dissent. Contentious questions, contentious claims, that were never asked before, never made before, never raised, began to be asked, began to be raised, began to be made, further driving a wedge in the community. A community that was once together now stood divided.
The policy of divide and rule can be found in many instances in history, with the British known to use it to try to drive a wedge in the freedom movement. This continues to be prevalent today too when political parties use it as a tool, a weapon, to maintain their core vote bank, to stay relevant to their vote bank, to flex their muscles, to prove their superiority.
It’s not that the above scenario fell under the divide and rule umbrella, but the division did serve as a catalyst to drive a fission in the community, raising unsettling questions and points, leaving the community divided which was a sad thing to see. Just like an evil bahu in the Hindi daily soaps, the division managed to sow the seeds of doubt, finally succeeding in dividing the community, who now decided to change names to differentiate themselves from each other, making you wonder if God had indeed stopped being with us.
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