Few days ago , I met one of my friend . Meeting her after a long time , we had a lot to talk about , discuss and gossip . But , one thing that took my attention was when she started to mention about the person she met during her course of stay in Chennai . So she started of about how she met the guy and how things went on .
Then she started of , about an evening when she went on a “Date” with that guy . Everything was hunky dory . This was supposed to be her fifth or sixth date probably . On the very first date the boy who was checking out on this girl , suddenly , going through her social media profile asked her to delete some of her photographs which he felt were “Not Good” to be “displayed” to the world . He also asked her to metamorphose the way she dressed and “told” her to refashion herself by being in a “decent” attire henceforth.
The things which took my attention are very commonly heard and ignored very easily . Females are told to dress a particular way so that a certain race of humans would “respect ” them and probably not check out on them . But is clothing the only factor which will make a difference in the thinking of these “humans” . A female in a salwar suit is being viewed the same way a girl in shorts/skirt is . And wearing western clothing gives a thses kind of people the license to humiliate and “gaze” a girl the way they feel is appropriate . Seeing a bottle of beer or a glass of wine in front of the female makes people ponder it as a wrong gesture.Is this what actually human race is all about ?
Now talking about human race and humanity , what does that state ? Reading about Asifa , the little girl from Kashmir gives me an assurance that there is no humanity left on this earth . The ones whom we trusted and knew would give us unbiased justice , makes me doubt about the word “justice” . This is what we call “humanity” when protectors turn predators . Hearing about Asifa stirs my soul and makes me think of how could someones bloody organs turn on looking at an innocent face and a raw life . Has God created these types of creatures on this earth which are being called “Humans” . This is what is being called “Humanity”?
We as humans are so engrossed in our own little worlds that we can never envisage the pain this girl went through and there are many more little angels going through this because of a certain clan of “Humans” . Reading newspaper ,debating about this or putting up huge banners is not the only thing to be done . We need to change . We need to respect every living being on this earth . Respect does not see someones opulent assets or someones penniless pockets .Respect does not even see for a male or a female.Respect is to be equally given to all . Freedom is power and no one has the right to alter this power for someone . Dressing in a particular way or talking and representing oneself is totally ones own choice . No one has the right to amend ones way of sustanence .
The pain of Asifa’s incident is not only of the bruises on her body that hurt , but it is the wound on the heart and the scar on the mind .
The world has to be made luminous and is to be transfigured .