At the start of the last century and for half of last century india was fighting a battle for freedom, to become a free state, to become free as individuals. But around the same time another battle was raging as an undercurrect, driven in part by the same man who was leading the fight for freedom, it was the fight against untouchability that had plagued the Indian society for hundreds of years.
We won the first battle. The battle for our freedom, but 60 years after winning our freedom back and as the new century takes shape, we still havnt come close to winning the second one.
Forget irradicating it, we are infact adding a whole new dimension to it. The educated society of a developing nation decided, “Why just stop at the caste system?”, lets add “HIV+ patients” and “Homosexuals” to that list.
We treat HIV+ patients the same way we used to treat leprosy patients and untouchables a few decades back. We are so inhuman to them that we refuse treating them at hospitals and sometimes isolate them to a life confined in solitude. We stop them from attending schools, from getting proper healthcare and the right to live their life as free individuals. We go to the extent of tagging them with stickers of “HIV+” when they are walking around at a hospital.
I can understand the rage and anger towards people who have contracted the disease through faults of their own, but what about the innocent kids who have been made to suffer because destiny decided to play a game on them? How can we as human beings isolate those kids while trying to pretend to protect your own. We are a bunch of hypocrites, thats what we are.
When we as Indians are discriminated against in a foreign country, we make big hue and cry about it, we stage protests, we use diplomatic channels to put pressure on the said country. Even when an ex-president is frisked at the airport as a security drill, we make it national news and talk about it for 4 days, but when a child WITHIN India is discriminated against for a disease, we silently sit back and feel sorry for the kid, but have no intensions of doing anything about it. I think it will take one HIV+ child in each home before our society starts to change, thats how docile we are when it comes to crimes against helpless people.
Why else do you think did “sati” happen in india for so many years? Why else do you think there still are dowry deaths even today? Why else do you think untouchablity still persists in India? Because in India we DONT CARE about weak, sick and helpless human beings.
India and Indians have found this new obsession lately about ‘Article 377’. Its in the news almost every single day. I honestly dont know the first and last about what this article is supposed to say in our constitution. But from what i hear in the news its about homosexuals and their rights in society.
Does it have to take 60 years to realize there are human beings that are born with a different preference and they should have their right to be a part of the same society? If you as an individual are against it, go take your fight against God. Ask him to give you an explanation for why he made them that way, but dont criminalize those people who were born as who they are.
We joke and laugh about them. We treat them as freaks of nature. I will admit, i used to do that too. But i eventually grew up and realized they are who they are not because they choose to, but because of how they were born or through circumstances (i dont know what leads to homosexuality and so i will refrain from stating anything about its cause).
We trust in God. We are fanatics when someone insults Him. But we still go out to challenge his authority of giving birth to kids who are HIV+ or who are born as homosexuals. What a bunch of morons of an educated society of a developing nation.
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