Honour Killing: A By-Product of Modern India

We live in a modern country called India. We are developing. We fired a rocket to moon. We are the biggest film industry. We are intelligent. We are the next big thing. We are blah blah blah. But are we really that modern, that great????
On one side we have reaped the fruits of outsourcing, our scientists are world renowned, we grow our own food grains, we produce our own steel, we do many other things but on the other side we have illiteracy, female infanticide, dowry deaths, khap panchayats, hatred in the name of religion, region, language and any other nonsense anybody can invent. These things show that the modernity has not reached into all strata of the society. The latest product from our great honourable society is, “Honour Killing”. And this is what I’m going to talk over now.
Every week there is at least one Honour Killing in the badlands of India. But what worries me the most are the Honour Killings from the so called modern urban areas. Whether Rizwanur Rahman or Nitish Katara or now Nirupama Pathak, the list is endless. Politicians are also a party to it and giving into the demands of the Khap Panchayats and are trying to get same-gotra marriage banned. There is even a demand that marriages in the same village be banned as well. In short, what they are demanding is that love marriages should be marriage. Inter-caste, inter-religion, inter-region marriages are already a taboo in this so called modern India! But I ask whether loving someone is such a big crime that they have to be killed! And that also by their own near and dear ones. Why can’t parents accept what their kids want?
I would request all the powers who are concerned to get out of their old rotten shells and embrace the modern world. Please stop moral policing and interfering in other people’s lives. Beware of the fact the Supreme One is watching and that day is not far when you have to pay back for your heinous crimes. No Panchayat, Association, relative and even a parent has the right to impose his/her dictum on a grown up adult. You may suggest what you want but can’t force it down the throat. Choosing the Life-Partner should be the right of every individual and that should be respected.
Please break the shackles of caste, gotra, religion, region and accept love. This is what every religion has taught which have been remodeled by the so-called custodians to their own favour.

Love & let love flourish…