Biggest loss - Loss of HUMANITY

Today the biggest question to be addressed is, where have we lost all our humanity? What led to this stage where we all have lost sense of empathy? Where did we gave up our emotions in our pity arrogance. How did we lose the sympathy we had for each other in the dust of ignorance?

The news which made the headline today in the newspaper  was the gang rape case of Bhopal. Rape is the most hideous crime anyone could commit. These rapist should be hanged in the middle of the road in front of everybody. Yes! I agree with all the girls voicing up for the capital punishment for such crimes. 

But today when I write this article I don’t want to talk about what should be done to these criminals rather talk about what happened to  our society and the people living in it. A girl gets dragged in front of them and no one cares to notice it. The rape victim, after collecting all her strength that is left in her, after the physical trauma she goes through comes to the police station for aid, instead of filing her complaint, the police makes her and her parents run between three police stations. Have we really lost all the love and compassion that we talk about in our scriptures or they are just the mythological stories we like to chant. 

We always tend to blame Pitamaha Bishma, when we talk about the epic Mahabharatat, why didn’t he say word when Dropadi called out for his help. That Girl must have called out for succour, why didn’t we do something. When she and her parents went to the police, why did police came into the role play of Dhritarashtra closing all eyes and ears.

Today, I was sitting with one of my friend in canteen who belongs to a very small town. During the conversation he was telling me the benefit of living in small town is, people are very much compassionate towards each other. If you are going through any financial crisis, your neighbour will make sure you manage through your month. 

Then, what is the advantage of being so developed? What is the benefit of this artificial development, if we lose the essence of our true Indian nature where we talk about “vasudhev Kutumbakam” or “sarve bhavantu sukhinah”. 

Even today when someone dies in a village of India, the whole community living in that area gathers up just to help the family. Here, in a developed city, a state capital, a girl gets raped and so called prudent police, who is here to help the society does even care to give her tragedy a ear. Tell me what did we achieved by this wordlly progress, maybe just height of insensitivity. 

Strict punishment for the rapist should definitely be decided soon. But the penance for ourself, as the part of the this society who allowed this incident and many more to take place needs to be decided by us.