The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Sunday 9 October 2016

OCTOBER 10: 3 IMPORTANT OBSERVANCES

October 10 is an important day, for it has three observances that make for intense societal debates  - World Day Against the Death Penalty - World Mental Health Day - World Homeless Day - the scourges of our organized societies - the results of our organized societies.

Abolishing death sentence is a raging debate the world over including India. According to Amnesty International, 2015, with 1634 executions, was the deadliest year on gallows since 1989. In its report, Amnesty says the figure is from some 25 countries and it could go up to 2000.  

What does it say?

Do crimes and criminals have increased in our societies or societies are becoming more tough and hardened on criminals?

There will always be proponents and opponents and mere statistics cannot define it. If a victim demands death penalty for the perpetrator, we cannot go and tell him that he is wrong. It will be immoral. Similarly, an activist who demands that death penalty be abolished, is also correct in his approach. A wrong can never be answered by another wrong. So, even if someone has taken away someone's life, we do not have any right to do the same to him.

This dichotomy will last till human civilization is here.

To continue.. 

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