“War does not determine who is right - only who is left”- Bertrand Russell
Yes, War may be right or wrong. But at the end it is valued only with the warriors those are left.
The war of the emotions of two human beings in AP was recorded as history with ‘red’ letters. Celluloid also embraced their story as ‘the history soaked in blood’. It is needless to say that they were Paritala Ravi and Maddelachervu Suri.
Paritala was killed. Suri was killed.
But a close observation draws line between the two deaths. While the reason for Paritala’s assassination was his own fear, Suri hugged death with over confidence and carelessness.
It is sure that fear complex drives a common man to eliminate the root causes of fear. We smoke and kill mosquitoes every day with the fear of getting affected with Malaria or Dengue. We never consider that a crime. We never consider that wrong. We never face the fear of revenge with that. But when the same thing is applied for fellow humans with the fear of death, things take different turn. Because, there is no other cruel animal in this world that takes ‘revenge’ on par with man. The reason is nothing other than ‘emotional quotient’.
Paritala Ravi missed understanding that line between man and mosquito. He wanted to take revenge on the person who killed his brother. He took. But he feared if his enemies would kill him. That made him put an end to the lives of men those he suspected to be his enemies. The picture of bloodshed started spreading on wide canvass. Ravi was afraid and once he asked government for police security as well. Ravi was very sharp who used to suspect even his shadow. He never allowed any suspecting thing run around him. In the process, the fear-act of Ravi tickled Suri with TV bomb episode. Thus Ravi got a new enemy who took his life eventually.
Suri emerged as a well known criminal after Jubilee-Hills bomb blast and with Ravi’s assassination; his dark-image became bigger than expected. He never feared of death. He never asked government for security. He started roaming free. He started living in a flat in Madhapur. He was careless, believed his yes-men and never kept a sharp eye on the people around him. That faith killed him at last.
But who was best leader between Ravi and Suri?
Undoubtedly, one can say it was Ravi. He developed wonderful cadre since he had known how to handle the emotions of his people around. Sources say that he never talked less about the people around him. He never insulted his servants or drivers or body guards for any reason. He allowed his men to earn in the way they can using his name.
But sources say that Suri was not very careful in letting out his feelings or anger in speech. He was not a balanced politician but a man who drove with emotions. His emotions many a time gave warmth and sometimes did hurt a few people.
On the other hand, only the men those go with the slogan ‘thinu-thinipinchu’ (eat and let eat) will become good leaders with strong cadre any where in modern-history. Only decentralization and perfect monitoring works well for a leader than involving in every aspect of functioning of a system.
Ravi learned that well and hence was killed only by opponent. Suri couldn’t learn that and hence was killed by his own man.
Fear complex despite good leadership killed Ravi. Lack of leadership despite fearlessness killed Suri.
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