Mop violence.

Mc Leod Ganj, 23-04-1994. Being in a country where shops are open 365 days a year i was sort of surprised this morning to find everything closed but my mind dismissed it as something local and i therefore didn`t consciously try to figure out what was wrong. Only after my return from my walk to Disala and at St. John`s church in the Wilderness did the shit really hit the fan with irrate mops of hindus armed to the teeth with wooden clubs and iron staves ransacking tibetan shops, restaurants and hotels, beating up those tibetans dumb enough to still be outside. Setting things on fire and trowing stones through windows were common with the indian riot police standing by idly, fingering their bambu cane shields. Trying to free a one-legged german from a threatening crowd i got them all against me but being aforeign tourist finally spurred the police into action and with a serious lathi charge scared away my would-be assailants. Hindus are not exactly big heros and when they do get into fights they like their friends to hold them back so that they can show off safely. However, an indian mop is capable of murder! All their repressed frustrations just come out!!! A tibetan killed a Hindu lat night down in Dharamsala and that is the cause of everything, the hindu crowd says and conveniently leave out the jealously part, a crime pasionel by the spoud of it. The tibetans in Mc Leod Ganj are slowly getting rich and their bellies grow by the day on the lucrative tourist industry. The Hindus down in Dharamsala only see the tourists passing through and not spending any money apart from, maybe, a cup of chai waiting for their bus up to Mc Leod Ganj.