Wake Up Call.. Its Now or Never..

     When was the last time we had seen a young 20 year old wave a poster with some harsh words against system and shout, I want justice, wearing a determined look and anger showing rage in his eyes. Not in a period film but in real life? Are we with any answer? Yes it was, to support Anna Hazare in India Against Corruption movement. But seeing the scenario again, even worst of all conditions, the situation through which the women across our country are going, whatever they are feeling, how they are being treated, aren’t we supposed to stand with a cause again?

       This time in my opinion the cause is more serious, more personal and more humaninitic. Why some people are so unhuman, why they are unable to control their libido and end up harassing a girl forcibly. The recent incident with a 23 year old girl in delhi has again raised a number of eyebrows. When the anti-human activities like this are seeing no end then why we are not coming with a perfect solution to it? Why there has been only one practical death sentence for a rapist (Dhananjay Chatarjee)? When the number of rape cases are increasing every year, especially in our capital city Delhi, where statistics say every third day a girl suffers physical molestation. Leave the eve-teasing and the verbal harassment she undergoes. Why our society takes women just as an object? Why some people just objectify women? Is there any fault in upbringings or the system is making the approach of people towards women like this.

       Amid widespread outrages over the barbaric incidents of molestations of girls over the period, our law system is yet to come with any immediate and proper sentence for culprits. Every time a incident like this occurs, we are made silent by these words of Govt., “This is a shocking incident and we will take all necessary action to ensure that such incidents do not recur in future. At the same time we need to have deterrent punishment to the perpetrators of such crime against women”. Even if the guilty or such beasts are caught, the case goes on forever like others, and names are lost as time passes. If we really want to put an end to the numbers of these unhuman acts, we need to come up with provision of immediate action against the guilty. The low rate of conviction of IPC crimes like rape and molestation, slow trials in such cases, lack of immediate relief and rehabilitation and complete lack of seriousness by the government to deal with policy and legislation confronting women has led to a heightened sense of vulnerability among all sections of women. In my opinion death sentence in public can be better of all options, rather than cooling down the sentiments of people, it will prove to be worthy as many can take lessons from it as the deviants are not afraid of consequence as it comes too little too late.

     Time has come to make people feel a lump in their throat by seeing a massive crowd of youth, the facebook and twitter generation ones moving on roads with slogans in their hands and shouting loudly for the justice to the women, who suffer every another day in every another way. We should be one standing vigil in sun and rains with madness unleashed for this cause & coming forward at all fronts all together even if we don’t know many faces in crowd personally. There might be pros and cons to this movement but believe me, it will work like anything. Participation of youth has always been a biggest of all factors for success of every movement and this time also if campaign is initiated by our generation, the consequence will be swift and progressive. Just think, how many of us can put a hand on heart and say we don’t care about this?? If I am correct, no hand will raise.

     It’s a wake up call. Late but still timely to react. Either react on this to bring and feel the change or just wait and watch to see another headline in newspaper, “girl got raped”.

What "Rio" Teaches us..

The movie Rio is about a macaw parrot Blu, the last male of his species, who was needed to be taken to Rio, so that he can mate with a female, Jewel, to preserve the species. Blu has been domesticated for 15 years and its effect is that he does not know how to fly. Most of his life he lived inside the store of his owner Linda. His inability to fly becomes his biggest problem when he was set loose in Rio.

A parrot that cannot fly is a funny sight indeed. Or is it?

    

Blu was made to fly, that is his very "birdiness". But domestication has stripped him of this ability. He has become less of a bird that he was meant to be. This handicapped have limited not only him but his world. While the birds were flying outside, he was stuck inside the bookstore. 

       On a side note, the bookstore was a good symbol of much of our lives. We have a lot of head knowledge and little experience on realities of life.

       Many of us are like Blu, domesticated. We have attached our lives, ourselves to pleasure and convenience that we abhor the practice of virtues. We have become spiritually slothful. We have stopped exercising the wings of our soul. We have become lazy in building our character.  Our main objective in life is to have a fun and easy life, and the hell with the rest.

      Like Blu, we have chosen to become less than who we truly are. In our laziness, we have compromised the greatness God destined us for mediocrity. “Too much effort” is too much effort for the many of us. Why be virtuous? Why strive for greatness when you can have fun? Why risk it when I can be safe in my own little world? 

 Why indeed?

      If you like to stay grounded instead of soaring, then choose mediocrity. Stay trapped in your own little world, your little cage. But if one wants to soar in life and live life to the full, one must remember who one is. We must remember that we are children of God. As birds are created to fly, we are created to be saints.

So how did Blu learned to fly?

He did when he forgot his fears, his self, his very life. 

      When Jewel fell from the plane with a broken wing, Blu jumped after her even though he did not knew how to fly. You can say that love pushed him off the plane and into Jewel. It is in this act of love that Blu learned to fly. It is true with us bipeds as well. Only love can make us fully human. When we forget ourselves and give it to others, we shall find our true humanity. Our life can only soar with the wings of love. To stay selfish is too stay stuck and grounded.

       Love as we can see demands risk and sacrifice. Blu took a risk of sacrificing his life to save Jewel. Love is not something that happens in our heads. It is very real, so real that you can touch it, like the cross of Christ. Love without action is not love, it is a silly imagination.

So let the parrot lead you in soaring in life. The high life God has called and made us for.

So start spreading those wings and go love and help those who need you.