LET'S MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE.

This beautiful world is inhabited by different flora, fauna, homo sapiens. These are all living beings. All are beautiful, they have life, they have energy. Trees are beautiful. They give us shade, fruits, the much needed oxygen, the lovely green color and the most beautiful profile of mountains, hills, plains. They are natural and a great resource for sustaining the earth.

Flowers, vegetables, shrubs, bushes, grass are all needed. They all sustain the earth.

Animals are beautiful. They live, they are a part and parcel of our existence. We homo sapiens have tamed some animals for our own use. Some animals are beasts of burden, some are used for transportation, some serve as milk givers, some give up their lives for us to eat. Some give us wool, some give us eggs, and some provide us joy rides, some provide us with company and are our pets.

Homo sapiens are those who have two feet, have a fist, have a thumb and so can grip things. They are the ones with developed brains, they are the ones who have emotions, who have developed language, speech, writing, accounting and what not. Being the most brainy species has perhaps resulted in our developing certain traits which are harmful for the world at large.

We homo sapiens or human beings have deceit, treachery, jealousy, envy, competition, hatred, intolerance, anger, as our traits. We also have very many nice traits, but then the nice traits get over shadowed by the negative traits. A human being emerges as the most dangerous species which endangers the earth.

Why do we have back stabbing, deceit? Why is there incest? Why does a father rape his own three year old child? Why does a father, uncle and brother continuously rape a  daughter, niece and sister? Why do women get raped? Why do these things happen? Why?

Is there something wrong in our upbringing? Are these brutal people absolutely inhuman? Do they deserve to continue to live?

 For a few moments of perverse pleasure and sense of empowerment these ghastly wretched creatures scar and destroy a girls life forever. 

Whenever I discuss this with people and advocate capital punishment for rapists, I am given the argument that the consequence will be that after a rape the rapist will kill the victim. I simply do not agree to this but for want of a better argument I keep quiet.

It is my view that whatever be the consequence the punishment for a rapist MUST be the death penalty. No one should be allowed to go scot free after a few years of punishment. It endangers society to have such criminals with depraved sensibilities let loose once again. They never get reformed. 

This crime against women must get its due importance. Rape is a violation of a person's body. Her will, her being, her entire persona, her belief, faith and trust are all shattered by some known or unknown person. She is left to grieve over her inhuman torture alone. No one can even imagine what pain a victim suffers. It is only she who knows what she has suffered and lost.

I remember so many rape cases, The Geeta Chopra case, the Maulana Azad Medical College student case, Mathura case, Aruna Shanbaug, Bhanwari Devi, Scarlett Keeling, Imrana, the tragedies perpetrated in a number of villages where dalit women are subjected to such rapes, paraded naked, little children, older girls, older women, the list can go on and on endlessly.

We get affected, agitated, angered and ask for the blood of the rapist in a few cases. The Delhi tragedy is the one which has made everyone wake up with a jolt. Soon we will go back in slumber and wake up again when another tragedy happens in an urban place. Why do we not agitate when everyday such tragedies are reported from all over the place?

Please people think. Please do not let such crimes go unreported.

 Please do remember that women need to get their position in society. Please give them the respect they deserve.

If each one of us start treating women folk of their own homes with respect, I do think the next generation will be better off and we will have more men respecting women.

As a beginning could you please stop making lewd jokes about women?

Could you please stop treating your wives like stupid, inferior people?

Could you please start accepting that the world IS a better place because of the women in your life?

Could you please smile and tell your wife that she makes a positive difference to your life? 

Women need to stop belittling themselves.
They need to realize that they are a part and parcel of society.
They need to remember that they are equal, are respectable and not inferior.
They need to see themselves without being patronizing towards themselves. All those humbug stories of being tragedy queens who give birth to children and bring them up, need to be discarded. What is biological is just that. Why glorify it so much and make it such a big deal? Why do we try to give ourselves the tag of being the eternally suffering species?
Unless we take up a stand boldly and demand our rights, we will not get anything. Let us see ourselves as strong and independent beings.

Let us make the world a better place by training young minds. Could you train your daughter to look after herself and not be scared of anything and anyone?Could you also train your son to always treat women as equal beings? 
Let us do our bit for society. Each one of us can make a difference.

LOOK....PARADISE IS HERE!

Whenever I  watch Hindi TV serials I  often wonder from where they bring forth such villainous personalities who do nothing but wreck havoc in the lives of others. Sadly, looking around, I have found that such people do exist in every household. Yes, actually in every household. Don't believe me? Just look around and pay attention and Voila! you will find that each and every house and family has at least one such person who is a total villain. 

We are told to forgive and move on. Is it possible to forgive people who are only  plotters and schemers? Those who play on the emotions of others, use them and then break their spirits?

The world is full of people who are hell bent on painting every other person with a  dark paint brush. Do they really believe that by painting others black they will look fairer in contrast? Why do some people have such a morose attitude towards life? Why can they never accept responsibility for anything? Why? Why? Why?

My why's may ever be answered, but I feel very sad to see the faces of such people. In spite of having everything they are worse than beggars. At least a beggar does not have to plot and scheme because he does not have the time to do all that. The beggar is too busy running after people to beg for some money to fill his stomach.

If only people would be calm, content and happy, they would be able to see the world as the beautiful place that it actually is. The world in which we live is extremely beautiful, with hills, mountains, rivers, meadows, forests, and desert sands. 

The sunrise, the sunset, the moon with beautiful stars. Extremely beautiful animals and birds. The birds flying in formation, the animals in the wild in their regimentation. The musical sounds of the river flowing, the beautiful melody of trees swaying, the wind rushing past, the chatter of the birds, the melody of the cuckoo and the nightingale. 

Nature is absolutely beautiful. Paradise is on this earth, if only we open our eyes and look for beauty, open our ears and hear music, melody, open our inner self and feel the milk of human kindness. The soothing touch of a mother, the firm guiding hand of the father, the gentle smile of an understanding friend, the total devotion of a spouse, the total innocence, dependance and trust of a child. 

Sadly we do not try to feel these, we simply take these for granted and continue to  look for faults. We hear the harsh ravens, we see floods, and the tsunami, we fear earthquakes and volcanoes, we only look for faults. Faults are rare and occur sometimes, but that is what we see and hear and fear. 

We do not appreciate the melody of the cuckoo who keeps on singing continuously, we do not hear the soothing gushing of the river which flows constantly. We only remember when a parent scolded us or a friend was indifferent or a spouse was intolerant, or a child was rude. All the goodness gets wiped out in one stroke. 

That is the story of life. 

If only, we could take faults as faults and an aberration which happens rarely, life would be so much more beautiful, colorful and joyful!

If only!!