Today morning while sipping my morning concoction- news
of two love stories caught my imagination. Both from different parts of the
world. One was a testimony of “Triumph of personal freedom” while the other
showed how executing one’s “right to freedom” may have a violent end.
One of the stories was from my beloved country while the
other was from “Japan”. How badly I wanted the “Triumph of personal Freedom”
story to be from my country (Though my country and its constitution ensures
sweeping freedom to all its citizens so much so that there are people who can
openly abuse the country and get away too- that’s another point of debate ,
lets drop it today!)
The story of princess Mako giving up her “royal status” to
marry a commoner (as they call it) is heartening as it has the blessing of the Emperor,
though one hopes she could have retained her royal status too. (I have a little bias towards Japan as people there are very gentle in their behavior ,peaceful and very proud citizens.Japan is a patriarchal society and surely they can improve a lot w.r.t. gender equality which I can talk about in another post.)
In contrast of the above story is the story below where a son-in-law
is allegedly killed by his father-in-law. Obviously the alleged murderer is no
king or emperor but has the audacity of sniffing out life from a human being.
What caused him to do it:-
- Failure to have control on his offspring’s life
- Just ego
- Lack of respect for human life
- Lack of compassion
- Lack of respect for rule of law
It’s necessary to remind people that “right to life and
right to freedom” are supreme and no nation can call itself modern if its
citizens don’t recognize its importance. Also what surprises me is lack of outrage
from the masses and general public. This incident should shock us and draw
sweeping outrage and criticism from all quarters – aren’t we a secular,
socialist country, etc, etc. or are they just words in the constitution. While "banning beef" stirs so much political noise why this incident is met with
measured silence. Is human life is of lesser value.
I think an emperor should have have had much more at stake that the "nobody" who killed this son-in-law mercilessly and he doesn't realize he has scarred his own offspring for life- but I think those are all secondary to the alleged murderer.
I sign off with the hope that modern India showcases stories of personal liberty and its respect by fellow citizens and stories like these become a distant obscure memory
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