Facade of Honour Killing

Even today two cases of honour attack has been reported from Meerut. In one case the girl has been dead and in second she is recuperating in ICU. Pathetically, the perpetrator in both cases has been their father. The question is, if the honour killing is a fashion in vogue or have been existing ever since the existence of civilization. Has the media brought glaring societal anomaly to fore or just it is some crime, as any other, reported.

Whatever the cause and effect, means and end, the incidents of honour killing has highlighted the fact that we are still living in medieval age. We may boast of being technological leaders of the world, but honestly our mindset is still bitten by the rules of yesteryears. The Khap Panchayats, which has found support in many politicians, as expected for the vote bank, has grown in power after getting publicity. It has worked as a binding force, cutting across the region, state, language, caste and class boundaries. When the time was ripe for the government to take stern action, we find them dilly dallying, lest alienating the crucial vote bank.

I just wonder when we will grow beyond the short sightedness and think nationally. I think we have limited the definition of patriotism to shouting slogan "Jai Hind", or singing vandematram, or national anthem or saluting half-heartedly, perforce, the tri-colour. I pray we start thinking beyond this gestures.

Let everybody voice against the social evils and unite.