Divided into two sections the paper seeks to explore the harrowing experiences that people have to undergo when it starts to rise against some of its sons and daughers. The main thrust of the paper as seen in the first section is to trace state violence in post-structuralist perspective during riots. In the second section, some solutions have been offered to stem in the tide of communal violence in the sub-continent. It makes a comparable claim that gynocentric stance is a form of essentialism as distinct from scholarship or political activity on behalf of women, to the extent that it focuses on the innate virtues of women.