The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
On Mar 24, people in an Uttarakhand village gheraoed, then set afire the caged leopard that was a suspect maneater-in-waiting, and had been caught by the forest department on the villagers' request. The police, the forest officials couldn't do anything; there were no activists around who could do anything worth. To boast of their achievement, the crowds opened up to the tv cameras that were there.
A whole generation overcoming their fear by charring it to death! Take that, carbonated drink manufacturers who set the cool; boy, I wonder how many over there would've been expecting a Kareena Kapoor to take them home after such a hardcore thing.
A civilization that could stoop to such cowardice must itself perish in flames.
Learning about this recent incident too late, then link after link of the same shallow reportage that leaves much to your own inside voice, has me going pale in my impotency about the situation. Narrating this joyless fact to Shiv, who himself was unenlightened about it, brought forth a condition of soggy eyes and parched vocal cavity that I am not too familiar with. Ambling up and down in the hazy post-dusk dark along the chain of pear trees bearing immature fruit, this guy learnt of his faunal compassion; extending the compassionate umbrella's cover further to the invalidated, the resigned, the meek.
In strong agreement of all my personal faculties, the immolation should've been met with immolation; but of the types the unwise wouldn't get; don't even start imagining. I have been weaving my fantasy around this for too long, and from the mire of impotency rose some rosy thoughts - benevolent deviances.
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