Why Death Penalty for rapes might not be an amazing idea?

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The Cabinet's approval of death penalty for minors (below age twelve) and President's approval to that ,while might have raised hopes of the people in general regarding women safety in country, it might not actually do what they are expecting it to do. Why? Let's read along. Increasing instances of rapes, especially those in which minors are the victims, have revived the debate about death penalty for rapes. This time the rhetoric is a bit different as people are asking for death penalty where the minor is below the age of 12. As growing public opinion seems to be asking for revenge and as govt. opinion seems to be now getting affected by populist concerns, a bit more insight is needed whether introduction of death penalty would be beneficial or not. Demand: Introduction of death penalty for raping minors (below 12) Reason: Raping a child of such a small age is heinous and death penalty should be there as it would act as a “deterrent”. Analysis: For a cru...
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The Love Prevails : Athar Amir Khan weds Tina Dabi

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Social stereotypes =0 , Love and Liberty = 1

I was in the middle of my class , when my phone notifications popped up. 2015 UPSC toppers Rank 1 Tina Dabi and Rank 2 Athar Amir khan tie knots. It wasn’t that I was friends with either of them, it was just the newspaper app that I had in my phone giving me the regular updates. I was sitting in this UPSC coaching class, so this news seemed quite relevant to me, not because I am in love with someone but just because I see this as a challenge to all the senseless and stupid boundaries that people try to draw around us , trying to curb our liberty in every sphere of life. As I live away from home, it has become a norm to call my parents every evening around 7-8 pm. That’s when I called them. I was in the middle of the conversation when I thought of telling them about the amazing news I got to know that day. I definitely knew that it won’t be as amazing for them because they too have certain views which won’t go very well along with this.

Me : Mummy, wo 2015 wali topper thi na TINA Dabi usne shadi krli. ( Mummy, that 2015 topper Tina Dabi got married.)

I was thinking of giving it to them in small doses.

Me (again) : usne na love marriage ki hai , jo us saal ka 2nd ranker tha uske sath.
Mummy : (laughing ) Achcha beta apna rasta saaf kar rhey ho. (Well , you are trying to clear your own way.)

I played along. I didn’t want to start another debate then because I usually get in a lot of debates with my parents over what is right and wrong. I was already tired by that time due to the hectic day so I never mentioned the fact that it was an inter religion marriage.
But as I have slept enough now, I am ready to start the debate anytime soon (:P).
While many people appreciated the fact that the duo get married and congratulated them over social media, there were a bunch of people who registered their contempt of the marriage through social media posts. Some even went to the limit of calling it a “Love jihad” while some enquired about the religion of their future children. Still the people in support were more than the haters. While I wanted to dance with rejoice at this changing picture of the mentality of the people I couldn’t. It was quite easy for them to support the cause on the social media, maybe just to increase the count of likes and followers on their accounts. But how many of them would accept their children marrying someone from the other religion? How many of them would marry someone from the other religion? In our society, where inter-caste is a taboo and inter- religion is considered sinister, will they dare to stand against the so called “samaj”? Well I guess no. The country seems to have a different population in the digital world. And this double life that people live on social media and in reality and the double standards they apply are as concerning as the people who posted against the marriage.

There was a preacher once. He used to preach a lot , a lot about all the modern world ideas, liberties, truthfulness and everything amazing. As an audience you would think that this man is just next to God in his ideas and beliefs. In his real life though he was an extreme conservative , a murderer and did all kind of sinister crimes what one could ever imagine of. One day he was caught and taken to the jury.
Jury : You preach so many good things while you yourself are such an evil person. Why don’t you practice what you preach?
To this , that man replied quite cleverly.
Man: As a preacher, I am bound to preach but not to practice the same.

So that’s what most of the supporters on social media do. It is good that they could post such modern world ideas but it is time to change outlook in your real life too.
Such inter-religion and inter-caste marriages are the need of the hour to dilute all the group identities and bring people on moderate stances on such group identity issues.
In the end, this is just not about inter-religion marriage but this is more about Right to choice, Right to live and Liberty. This is about people’s duty to respect others’ rights.

Congrats Tina and Amir for doing what you did, for leading not by words but by example.


                                                  Moral : Live and Let Live.                                                                     


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