Human values: Do we have anything left?
Today its Saturday and I was casually browsing the web, before I stumbled on the headline Honeymoon murder: Bride guides groom’s ‘killers’ route via SMS in Indian Express.
The story is about a newly-wed girl killing her own husband of 8 days in their honeymoon to elope with her lover. The girl comes from an upper-middle class family in probably grew up in conservative environment and with these I presume that she is educated at least till college level. The girl falls in love with a Christian auto driver and the parents hurriedly marry her off to some distant relative, who in all possibility could have been kept in dark about her affair. The girl agrees for the marriage, as she is concerned for her mother's health, but, she and her lover decide to kill the husband after the marriage, that too in their honeymoon. The couple are followed by the killers (a friend of the driver comes to help in killing) and the girl communicates their movement to them by SMS. And, finally they kill the innocent husband and the bride now plays a drama of unidentified persons killling her husband and robbing her valuables. The police solves the case, thanks to an alert auto driver hired by the killers.
These to me are plain and simple mortals, whom we meet day in and day out. A girl falling in love with someone outside the caste or religion is not bad at all. But, what disturbs me is that it has gone to the extent of cold-blooded murder of an innocent person, without any thoughts of guilt feeling by three people - the girl, her lover and his friend. Remember, the murder was not committed out of anger in a flash second, but with complete planning and coordination. The attack-by-unidentified-persons drama by the girl proves their level of planning to cleverly escape from the police.
To be fair, the girl's parents are also to be blamed partly for their age-old beliefs on other-caste/religion no-no mentality. Curiously enough, the girl was concerned about her mother's health, when she agreed to the marriage. but, didn't thought second time before conspiring to kill her husband.
You might remember about the gruesome killing of 13 people (including 4 children and 4 women) for some old family enmity in a village in Andhra Pradesh. But, then I was telling myself that, its the lack of education and development that pushed these people to the vicious cycle of revenge. But, in this case, the upper-middle class girl has been educated and is supposed to have the ability of independent thinking, some sense and respect for human values.
We all believe that, education and economic well-being will make the country and society to progress. But, now I am not sure as I see that the values are eroding visibly.
Where are we heading?
The story is about a newly-wed girl killing her own husband of 8 days in their honeymoon to elope with her lover. The girl comes from an upper-middle class family in probably grew up in conservative environment and with these I presume that she is educated at least till college level. The girl falls in love with a Christian auto driver and the parents hurriedly marry her off to some distant relative, who in all possibility could have been kept in dark about her affair. The girl agrees for the marriage, as she is concerned for her mother's health, but, she and her lover decide to kill the husband after the marriage, that too in their honeymoon. The couple are followed by the killers (a friend of the driver comes to help in killing) and the girl communicates their movement to them by SMS. And, finally they kill the innocent husband and the bride now plays a drama of unidentified persons killling her husband and robbing her valuables. The police solves the case, thanks to an alert auto driver hired by the killers.
These to me are plain and simple mortals, whom we meet day in and day out. A girl falling in love with someone outside the caste or religion is not bad at all. But, what disturbs me is that it has gone to the extent of cold-blooded murder of an innocent person, without any thoughts of guilt feeling by three people - the girl, her lover and his friend. Remember, the murder was not committed out of anger in a flash second, but with complete planning and coordination. The attack-by-unidentified-persons drama by the girl proves their level of planning to cleverly escape from the police.
To be fair, the girl's parents are also to be blamed partly for their age-old beliefs on other-caste/religion no-no mentality. Curiously enough, the girl was concerned about her mother's health, when she agreed to the marriage. but, didn't thought second time before conspiring to kill her husband.
You might remember about the gruesome killing of 13 people (including 4 children and 4 women) for some old family enmity in a village in Andhra Pradesh. But, then I was telling myself that, its the lack of education and development that pushed these people to the vicious cycle of revenge. But, in this case, the upper-middle class girl has been educated and is supposed to have the ability of independent thinking, some sense and respect for human values.
We all believe that, education and economic well-being will make the country and society to progress. But, now I am not sure as I see that the values are eroding visibly.
Where are we heading?
posted by Baskaran Sankaran @ 05:39
2 comments
2 Comments:
really touchy a news. really wonder how and what are they gonna get after all those brute things. happiness is not attached only with 'self' but with the other and other's 'self'.
going to school is not necessarily getting educated... this is how much she has learnt from 20 odd and more years from life in general... bringing up kids in this age isnt a cake walk ... but there are parents who have triumphed at it ... its all sacrifice and very intellingent parenting skills and all affection n love with feeding morality everymomment
the best is setting an example by living BY THE WAY
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