While in very many parts of India there is violence, destruction and bloodshed, it is interesting to take note of how politicians and media polarise issues and colour facts - each to their own advantage. However, the most deplorable of all amidst this whole cacophony is the neglect of human life and dignity. Lost in a debate of words and churning out of concepts is the real value and sense of life - a living person.
After all the education attained, the degrees secured, the 'standard of life' we claim to attain, how can we be so fickle minded to overlook the most essential and be carried away by words, emotions and prejudices - none of which are mine, neither are most rational and least of all humane! Haven't we reached a level of critical consciousness capable of seeing through things and concentrating on the most essential? Each one fights for something or the other: religion, rights, freedom, secularism, party, name, fame, property... but ultimately I wonder if it strikes anyone, what if there is no human life at all? Would all these exist without life?
As I mull over these disturbing questions, i realise the thoughts on human life and dignity sound familiar. Then I remembered the Strenna!! There had to be Orissa, Karnataka, Delhi... all that for me to understand and be touched by the Strenna!
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