Monday, November 14, 2011

Animal love - Love Conquers all

Animals apparently get more say in the world , rather than humans these days. In fact the gay penguins in Toronto zoo  Buddy and Pedro were going to be split up so that they could be busy with female penguin(sic) .But, with popular reader intervention,  the pair has been reportedly left alone. They show distinct homosexual tendencies and groom , mate with each other taking . They have been separated for a limited time but will re-unite in 2012.
This happened only when there was an open poll where the opinions of 34,000 readers who participated in the poll overwhelmingly said that they should be left alone, they chose so they should be being the popular mandate.
Closer home , in a village next door the sordid tale of humans loving humans is not tolerated . The time old tale of one not being of the same caste is repeated again and again. Just visualise the scenario, where a jat girl has the guts to fall in love with a lower caste boy and then runs away in the fear of the family targeting them. Well that's exactly what happened, they are being hunted for , by the girl's family who has descended in hordes from Malaysia. Their izzat , honor is at stake and they want revenge.
It's all simple, cut clean and dried, there are no two things about it.
Where are we stuck? Why do we not rise above all this?
Humans show streaks of animal behavior which is cruel , sadistic , evil . The value of human life is nil and it is expendable just to satisfy social pride. The women of the village follow are harping the same song of blaming the girl's mother who did not take care and her upbringing! Imagine,  always the woman is the sufferer, the devil who tempts. Beant kaur, one of the older women cackled,'How can we allow this? Peedhi (Genealogy ) kharab ho jaandi hain, Daag lag jaanda hain, in chaste Punjabi.
The village elders, Panches, Sarpanch are divided over the method of justice meted out but the consensus is to punish both of them to set an example.
Boodhi Singh, condemned the act of the youngsters saying that ,the munda- kudi cannot marry as they are from the same village and hence are brothers and sisters. They should respect the lines of traditions. The girl's grandfather has written her off and saying she is a blot to the family honor and is dead to them.
Punjab, Haryana have the highest amount of honor killings followed by Rajasthan. We want development, a square meal , education but the villagers ( majority of 67%) are still stuck in a time warp where castes lines are deeper . It is where bloodlines can make break the feudalism which still is rampant . Inequality to the core .
These deep rooted prejudices which are still existing are there to stay , nothing changes . For the country to move forward , the dis favorable practices need to end . We need to collectively have a social revolution to stem the rot . In fact , considering another aspect the religious books of ours be it Sikhs, Hindus have contributions from all sects of the society . When we can read, follow , worship these why do we question His children? Who puts the mark on the forehead demarcating them ? Is the blood thicker, thinner than the others?
We need to leave a society which is tolerant an dis not prejudiced for our children and then only can the purges of poverty , inequality finish in India.

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