This is in response to the statements made by few
celebrities (like Rahul Bose, Arundhanthi Roy), intellectuals recently on Delhi
gang rape and execution of Afzal Guru, I would like to start this with a story and get in to the issues one by
one so that we get to the core of the problem, before that let me warn you – “if
you are a person who is not bothered about incidents that takes place far “from
where you live” (as you like to believe), please do close this and move on to a
topic of your interest. Let me start now
230 million years ago, there was KING who is mighty, clever –
he won almost the world and ruling it successfully – he is left with only wish that
people should treat him as GOD, he announced himself as GOD so many times but
his people were not convinced . So he had been thinking within himself what
heroic stunt will make his people believe him as GOD. Luckily for the king, one
day a court man of his came running to inform him on a very dangerous problem
for the whole world -he said “My king, we are all going to die if we won’t get
prepared soon, there is a monster on the rampage, killing hundreds every minute”
king was baffled and said I am the mightiest of all on earth, nothing can destroy
my kingdom, “calm down and tell me” he ordered the court man who explained
“My king “ we are attacked by a monster dinosaur, it is on a rampage,
destroying everything on its way – currently it is 15 miles away from here and can reach here anytime – I am the only one
from that place who survived to carry
this message to you, King you are mightiest please save us – we beg you. “Nothing
will happen” he assured him and ordered his army chief to get ready with all weapons
and announced he will be back after an hour to go on a war against dinosaur.
Well ,while he was going to his home to inform the queen
about war, he was struck with great feeling of victory - he thought this is the
right chance for him to prove as GOD, that he can kill this dinosaur and prove
to his kingdom, but he questioned himself later “Will my people start treating
me as “GOD” if I kill this dinosaur – they may not, because “I have done lot
bigger things than this before” – so it is not a right idea to kill the
dinosaur.
The KING came back to the court and announced “My dear people
“as I told you before I am the GOD, and I have not created any species to hurt
my own people, this dinosaur might have gone mad, so let us capture it and domesticate
it, so that it goes back to his original nature I gave , “Let us go” he ordered
his army.
KING and his army successfully captured it, though KING lost
few best of his soldiers, nobody dared to ask him if you are the GOD – why do
you need to fight to capture it – just order and make it behave, that is the
irony. So they captured this dinosaur and put in big cage like park, started feeding
it daily. Next day this news reached other dinosaurs ,they laughed at KING’s
stupidity and decided that they will intentionally get captured one by one and
get into the park so that they can get
food for free without any labor, all the dinosaurs stuck to the plan started attacking
kingdom, so for king’s army it became a routine every day to fight dinosaurs
capture them and put them in to the park and feed, but gradually king’s army
reduced to a few numbers because every time they fought a dinosaur they have
lost lives, and food reserves in the kingdom also diminishing, finally there
comes day where king does not have any men to fight except himself- he and a
bunch of Dinosaurs – so he ran away in to
a deepest cave to save his life”
Let us end the story there – it is already quite a long, let
us get in to the core problem now. First things first – execution of Afzal Guru
and the response few intellectuals across in India – that he should not have
been killed rather imprisoned for life- because death sentence is very cruel
and uncivilized. Now there are few things we need to consider
1)
Argument:
Death sentence is archaic, medieval times method and uncivilized – well please
do not conveniently forget that civilized procedures are for civilized only –
and there is difference between human and animal rights – do not get confused, unless
you consider Kasab & co and brutal rapists as humans, incase if you do so,
please answer me if they are humans “what are we then? – the” KINGS” in the
STORY? trying to prove ourselves “intellectuals” if one take down the list of terror
activities, bomb blasts and rapes in India for last one decade – you will get
hundreds of incidents now need to see how many were punished, how many death
sentence have been awarded by the courts and of them how many have been
actually implemented, we can count on fingers, it won’t be not even 10 though.
We are so far from awarding justice to the affected families and victims – we need
to fight to have the justice done to the victims fast and should not be
debating on why Afzal Guru should have been pardoned and how you can reform the
brutal rapists.
2)
Argument:
If they proved to be criminals don’t kill them, give life time imprisonment: Just
as the king did underestimate the problem of dinosaurs, our intellectuals are
underestimating the problem of terrorism and treating these criminals just like
any other. Point here is you are sending a message in to the society with the way
you are treating these animals – now we need to take a call whether we would
like to send a message like the KING with his hidden agenda in the story OR we
act sternly. When you see snake you will kill it – 99 times out of 100 times
you do that – at least you will try to kill it – and we know why – because we
know it is our death, now as we not affected any terrorist activity, as of now
our kids safe – we preach about peace- when the same problem touch our life our
heart starts burning, we cry our heart out. Please allow your soul to work for
a minute – you won’t be able to eat – you are killing the soul every minute in pursuit
of being called intellectuals.
3)
Argument:
We are world's biggest democracy, we stand for peace: the crucial point is “at
what cost you would like to be a civilized society” – like in the story the
king chose to “capture the dinosaur and domesticate it “wiser one would probably
choose less dangerous event to prove your so called “unflinching will for peace”
and India being a fair state which gives fair opportunity to even most cruel criminals.
just try to have look a the incidents took place from 2001 to now while we had
the parliament attacks culprits in the jail enjoying the hosting of indian Governament, their men continued
killing hundreds, to whom are you trying to preach peace, they do not understand your
language – the only language they understand is “KILLING”. it is easy to make
them understand just by doing the same when they are caught. For thirteen we
wasted time, now by killing him we made him Martyr.
“Look at the history of India, one became GOD after killing an evil being ” Lord Rama
to Sri Krishna. Killing brutal criminals is not a sin, but not killing them is
one and it more uncivilized than killing them. Cutting the overgrown part of
your body(Let us say nails) is not hurting your body but protecting it. One who kills “innocent” deserves to be killed
with in law but quickly – see my next post - my take on fast tracking this.
Rahul Bhai, Arundhati Didi- I know you are thinkers, shift your focus to
another happening thing – do not make yourself funny – the entire media says
you guys are great and intellectuals ,why
are you trying to do circus still.
