June 21 is celebrated the World over as the Humanist Day. As June 21 this year was crowded, nay, jam-packed with all sorts of 'days', I had decided to address each one by one.
Believe me though, I just could not bring myself to write about 'humanism'. Want to know why? Well, just look about and see what is happening around us. Pune is being tarnished the second time the world over, and this time, the issue involved is inhuman.
Yes, Pune, once known as the "Oxford of the East", as the maternal home of knowledge itself, got besmirched as the city of money- and influence-obsessed paper leak "masters''! Apparently, many more teachers (how to call them so, is indeed a moot question) from famous colleges are involved, too.
As if that infamy was not enough, here comes Sonam Junior! In fact, this woman has the gall to admit that she was 'inspired' by the Sonam-Raja Raghuvanshi sordid saga!! Yes, indeed, I am referring to the diabolical plan hatched by Siya Goyal!!!
How can anyone be just twenty, and yet so harshly horribly inhuman? At twenty, one is supposedly brimming over with ideals, aspirations, principles, with the intense enthusiasm to take on the world in search of justice, equality, fraternity, for instance!
And here is this virago (how to call her a young girl?) deliberately in detail planning, with the able assistance of her paramour, the murder of the poor fiancé! Where was the need? If she could plot n kill, why could not she stand up to the parental pressure not to marry the lover boy!?! Why ruin lives who meant well by her, the would-be who humoured her every wish despite doubts, his entire family, in fact! What has society indeed descended down to!
Yes, even in my generation, there have been diabolical daughters-in-law who subtly but most viciously and absolutely wickedly made the lives of the unfortunate in-laws in to sheer hell. Yet even these shrewd shrews, mostly married in their mid-twenties, hardly had the infinite audacity to thus plan n kill!
Sure, those toughies tried their level best to ruin reputations!! Yet even they might not match up to Sia's n Sonam's, the 'blue drum' types of today! Moreover, they thus managed complete control over the hubby, whom thence they could treat like a puppet whose strings were attached to the finger tips of those wily wifey's and their maternal families! They lorded it, every which way! What has Sia accomplished? A life term, if not a death sentence, for self and hood(ed)y-wallah?
In such contexts, how to extol humanism? A distant parallel would be writing pretty little stories of love n piety n types to extol the Nazis! In brief, to repeat Macduff's response in "Macbeth" when he sees the assassinated body of King Duncan, "horror, horror, horror!" "HORROR!" And all is thus said!
Pratima@ Anyways, World Humanist Day, celebrated annually on June 21, is "a global holiday dedicated to raising awareness of humanism as a philosophical life stance and promoting rational thinking, human rights, and ethical values."
Quote of the day: "To insult someone we call him 'bestial.' For deliberate cruelty and (wicked) nature, 'human' might be the greater insult." Isaac Asimov IS indeed a creative thinker!
Word of the day: fiend/she-devil Fiend/she-devil is a diabolical or wickedly cruel person, a particularly fierce, evil, or shrewish woman.
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