In this lovely beautiful bright life moments come which fills it with darkness. It makes one lose faith in all goodness of life. No matter how saintly lives you lead or no matter how many good deeds you do what matters is- How you reacted when things were ugly? There are people who react in a certain way and there are people who react in a certain other way. there are people who walk with the flock and some choose their own paths; some choose to ignore things and some decide to take the “bull by the horns”.
A lot of people who would speculate as to one set of reaction is correct or the other one. It depends on the perspective of a person as to how one feels about a situation and the people react accordingly. This, no matter, is the most natural thing. This is something that sets us apart from other creations of nature. Our beauty does not lie in 2 legs or superior anything, it rather lies in our dissimilarities. No species is so dissimilar in every aspect of word than the human beings. Our ability to be different from one another sets us apart and makes us the most magnificent creation of all. So reactions as long as are governed by perception and thoughts are alright. Our different actions and reactions balance this society. Out of this chaos of dissimilar reactions there always emerges out a pattern which in every way strives for the betterment of the situations.
Problems arise when our reactions are swayed by a certain section of a society, the intelligentsia or even the more dangerous is when economics decides our course of action. And when both these factors come together- no matter how good their intentions- things start messing up and the situations take an ugly turn.
History has always been a witness that wars fought on ideas are well received that wars fought on economics. Take for example Ramayan or Mahabharat- these were based onideas and people remember them as epics and even the opposition or the proverbial bad side is always shown respect when being mentioned. Even the Second World War was started with an idea- no matter how flawed it maybe – but as soon as economics got involved in it we had Jewish genocide and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Think about Iraq- Saddam Hussein could have been disposed off pretty easily or things could have been better there through many ways but the economics of oil forced an entire nation to stand in the brink of Stone Age. Grameen bank of Bangladesh operated with an idea of helping poor become self sufficient and now today is the biggest conglomerate of that nation. Rockefellers, Bill Gates and even why not Osama bin Laden- all these people had an idea and economics followed the.
So it is pretty clear the idea is right the situation will be in hand and surely economics will follow.
But today times have changed. People are living in the age of fast food. We want everything served to us extra quick. Perseverance, toil are words which we seem to have forgotten. We forget that these are necessary prerequisites of success. Human emotions, honour, dignity have taken a backseat.
Today economics decides our course of actions. We look at every thing with weights and balances. Everything today is weighed today in the balances of wealth. Relations, love, somebody’s emotions and dignity have become money spinners to us.
For centuries now our country has boasted of being the beacon of civilization. We call ourselves as the upholders of moral values. Our nation claims to be on an altogether different plane of civilization where so called Ram-Rajya rules. How hollow our claims are? We have reduced ourselves to a hot air balloon and nothing else. The rampant savagery, insensitivity and selfishness is visible in our society in the ugliest of forms.
Maybe I would have become a loathsome creature to you for bemoaning my culture and society. But my heart weeps to see men and women restoring to such petty measures for what- money and entertainment!!??
Take for example the Aarushi murder case. It is by far the most sensational murder cases in our country. Isn’t the use of word “sensational” shameful enough for us? I mean how can a murder be sensational? It has to be eye raising or tragic or I think there are appropriate enough words in English to describe it far better than this.
A girl gets murdered and alongwith her, the servant of the family is also killed. Think about it honestly, the thought that comes into your mind or the first so called angle of cause of murder is honor killing because of their clandestine affair.
Why are we not stabbed by a sudden blow of sadness first? Why is our first reaction not pain for a girl who had dreams in her life? Why do we not grieve for an individual that its dissimilarity was a beautiful entity of this world? No matter whatever maybe the cause of the murder why do we not moan for a sudden untimely death of an individual?
People talk about the right of justice of the victim. The killer or the wrongdoers should be brought to justice. Fair enough, that’s the least we can do for the person who has been wronged so grievously. But does the right to dignity of the person dead mean nothing to us. We all have secrets in our life or we even have some unpleasant things that we want to keep hidden as bones in our closet. None of us want to be remembered by the mistakes that we committed. But just because the person is not there to defend himself or herself we lay that persons life out in the open for the other people to see. If that is not wrong then we also have people with god knows what background commenting and airing their opinions about others lives.
Since when did we become so perfect that we have started pointing fingers at other people’s lives.
People who do not know who their father was or maybe with whom they slept last night suddenly become apostles of piousness and tell the world how wrong the person deceased was.
We live in a world where opinions are formed from advertising. Public sentiment and mood forces us to change our views. So with all the media spotlight in this particular case are we sure to say that the judge won’t be swayed by this. Will he not think twice in taking a decision which the so-called telly viewers do not appreciate? Won’t he have a jaundiced eye even before the case is brought to him?
And what about the family? Lets for a moment take for granted that the father is the murderer the what about the mother. She lost her only child, her husband and her dignity. She may have weathered the news of her husband killing her daughter under normal (I know it’s abnormal but that Life) circumstances but now- will we let her live with any shred of dignity.
But also if the father is not the murderer then think about the poor man. He has lost his only daughter and if that is not bad enough he is being jeered by the media and being portrayed as his daughter’s murderer. Think about the agony and the pain that the man has to go through.
The media persons also taking a moral viewpoint question as to why Mrs. Talwar is siding with her husband? Or Why is the compounder’s family standing by him?
Dude that’s what families are for! I mean Gandhari knew how wrong her son was but still she gave Duryodhan her blessings, didn’t she? Even Jesus knew that Judas would betray him but syill he loved him. So what’s wrong if families stick together in this hour of crisis?
The there are questions of extramarital affairs.. the man and the lady in question are over forty. They have a right to make choices of their won life no matter how right or wrong. And also it is still to be proved yet.
People forget that they have begun questioning everything before anything has been proved yet.
But disheartens me the most is not how the people have reacted or how the media has covered the whole situation. What saddens is that there is a strong undercurrent of wish and hope amongst everyone that the parents be declared murderers because of their extra marital affair or it maybe lust killing on the part of the part of the compounder in which the domestic help came to the rescue of his master’s daughter and got killed. How can we romanticize a murder of 14 year old girl?
No matter who may have killed her. But is that a bigger crime? Is the murderer a bigger criminal? He or she murdered her just once but the media, television has murdered her innocence every single day every single day after that.
This shows how important an idea is. The sweet girl was killed once but the television has murdered the very idea of her beauty and innocence everyday.
Why does the media forget that it’s job is to present facts in an unbiased manner? Creating opinions, changing mindsets- their catchword- is not their job. It is the job of viewer. Why do you forget Sanjay was also a reporter? He reported everything to Dhritshashtra that he saw absoulutely the way it was. He refrained from making opinions or passing judgements even when he was not in favor of war. He knew it was Dhritshashtra’s job to form an opinion.
But herein again the idea was correct. Sanjay laid down the facts as they were in front of him hoping he would take the correct decision. And he knew that there was a greater authority to rectify the wrong opinion. The Almighty in his case and the judiciary in ours.
So remember that instead of making this tragic incident a soap opera for making money and entertainment (outright disgusting) the idea has to be right.
Idea always comes first, economics follows.
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