Democracy:- A very hallowed word and being an Indian I am supposed to be proud of it.But of what should be I proud of?Should I be proud of the fact that our democracy is not a voice of the masses ? Or should I take excessive pride in the fact the our democracy fails to safeguard the very pillars on which is was founded?
Here we have example of a writer like Taslima Nasreen who is placed in a house arrest in some place away from world.A place where we deny her rights that are awarded to every human who is born;the right to mingle in the society.Is she so dangerous a creature that she has to be kept out of public sight? And who decided over that?Is saying what is ones belief such a crime that we should incarcerate a person?(And then we expect Md Haneef to get a fair trial.Thanks Allah he was targeted in a foreign land and not in India.)
I believe we are no better than the Junta in Mayamar the generals who on some whims of their house arrested a champion of democracy.
Here we have a person who championed against the grave injustice existing in the world,only she could not sit closed eye to the plight of people.Every rational thought points to the fact that this is curbing the rights of an individual and the biggest paradoxity is that it is prevalent in "World's Biggest Democracy".This is a hypocrisy when we ask our neighbors to enact democracy while we march upon the basic rights of people.
But wait the laws are always for some individuals to benefit. Aren't they ? And the next paradoxic case is that we still follow them!!!!
I am perplexed what has Taslima done wrongly for which we have waged such an acrimonious attack against her.Are we not aquianted of that fact that women are still targeted in our society? Are not children put though such perils that they ought to loose their interest in the sanity of so called educated people?
We all accept all these "misdemeanors" in our closets.I say misdemeanors since they have become minor crimes for us.They do not shock our nerves we have learnt to ignore these and those who cannot ignore and raise their voices we have learnt to ostracize them.
See how simple life has become!!!!
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