Of late, we have
all heard of the heroic instances carried out by true sons of Mother India against
women. Yes, we are talking about the Sri Ram Sene’s lad and their due respect
towards women. Their intent is so noble that I have no gripes against them. In
this prose I would like to delve upon my views on the morality and the
plausible way to address these moral concerns.
The appalling
incident that happened in the Mangalore Pub should have kept us hooked to the
TV screen. We saw the manhandling of two women by a bunch of so called
veracious chaps of moral policing. What’s my first reaction? It’s just another
incident that attracts high TRP. Is this not an acute problem to be addressed? Weeks
after this incident, a school going girl hanged herself at her home. The fact
behind this is that she has been harassed and verbally abused by these great
Indians as she was talking to a Muslim Boy. There was yet another incident that
really disturbed me. There were two girls who had been friends right from their
primary education. Now they were going to college. One of the girls spotted the
difference in behavior of the other friend after few days of going to college.
The girl was in tears when she heard that her friend had been warned not to
talk to her as she belonged to Muslim community. The hatred ness spilled into
this serene friendship. Oh my goodness, we should hold statues for those great
hearts of Sene people for breaking the true hearts. There were also sporadic
incidents of abuse over Muslim girls wearing Burkha.
What is morality
all about and who are we to enforce these on others? A horde of other questions
had been grappling my mind for a while as well. To me, Morality is the way I
wanted to lead my life or to behave without offending other’s rights. I can
teach moral principles to my family members and friends, to an extent. I am
nobody to enforce these on others. I cannot take some body else’s right in this
free and democratic country. We have learnt all these principles from our
books, our family, our culture, our religion, our teachers and from our
society. We have imbibed this into our practice. We have lot of other good
things to do in improving our lives and doing good deed to our country. Morality
is more of a personal attribute. I truly believe as an individual I have to
carry out myself well in the society.
The next aspect I
am worried about is “Where are our young generations heading to?” Why should
they resort to such vandalism to impart deceitful morals on others? This brings
my attention to the pervert politicians. Everything in this country is
politicized and polarized on religion. To tell you an event that happened
recently, the anti-terrorist campaign in Karnataka. This issue is of national importance
and should be dealt by parliament. This was greatly undermined with the clashes
between the youths of two national parties. I make myself clear I am not
against any political party but we must ponder upon the youths swayed away by
some unscrupulous persons. Youth today are largely misdirected by politicians
(perverts and not all). The communal divide is greatly entrenched because of
some depraved politicians and our ignorant act following them. This
politicization of issues is never ending and we should have self-righteous
thought to judge things. We need to analyze what is the whole purpose of a
particular event. Don’t go by any political party and their propaganda. If you
feel something is not right, ignore them and look for the right leader. There
will always be an upright leader and you need to pick them up. With the hopeful
of negative voting coming into the election ballot, we always have a choice to
vote against candidate. The change depends on our attitude to have a right
person in the leadership position.
Like Caesar’s wife
is our Sri Ram Sene Muthalik’s intent. We should appreciate his moral
principles and laudable deeds. The one principle which he exhibited recently is
that the women should not go to pub and should be beaten to teach them a lesson,
is well deserved. May be we should attend a seminar on morality from Muthalik
to get ourselves rightly equipped to promote violence against women. This
remembers me the incident where Taliban’s have bombed several schools in the NWFP
(North West frontier province of Pakistan). The noble reason they claim is that
women should not be educated. I don’t see any difference in very high
commendable spirit of Taliban’s and our own Muthalik. My point is Muthalik
might have had some good thought but I strongly reprimand the way he used to
impose his principles upon someone. Every youth who were part of that act
should understand that they are derailing the growth of our country by
resorting to destructive acts. If you greatly respect your own religion and its
prospects then give the same freedom to someone else. We as a youth should not
seize the very fundamental rights of other citizens in this democratic country.
There are great men who had set our Vision 2020 and want youth to work towards
it. Let’s focus our attention towards nation building and not removing every
brick of our great nation built by yesteryear’s leaders.
We need a great
silent social revolution happening amongst youth. Don’t give a damn about the
false propaganda of politicians. Don’t protest these great gentlemen but help
in nurturing right kind of people to lead our country. If Muthalik feels that
westernization had greatly spoiled our culture then we have lot of ways to
bring this forth. Organize seminars, public gathering, awareness campaign,
lecture, writing on paper, TV and Internet exposure can be greatly utilized to
tell our people what has been our culture and what we are now. Tell them our
culture has been deprecating because of addicted to certain things. You need to
propose your views in a neutral and inoffensive way. If people felt that your
proposal is right they will mend their ways. If necessary our central
government, without political parties taking credit, could propose morality as a
subject at school and college levels giving them right understanding which would
greatly help in solving the problem. This subject should be subjected to great
discussion and dialogue from eminent persons and public at large to build a
right platform. This greatly depends on the political parties without
confronting each other and bringing the change with their partisanship and
common will. I know most of things I dreamt of are totally not pragmatic but I
wish our country will head towards glory with the youth directed in the right
path.
P.S. Written Couple of Years back on the incident at Mangalore
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