Being denied the right to live is pitiable enough. However, what makes me churn inside is the way in which the dead, or rather the killed, are being slandered. I wish, at least in these cases,  there was more sanctity to their death.

My point of reference is the ‘sensational’ Arushi killing. Being killed by her own father is bad; that she had not been able to live beyond 14 years is horrible, only God knows what she might have achieved in future. That she is being dragged into everyone’s drawing rooms and ghastly stories and theories are being spun by the TV media is catastrophic. The worst is the theory about “Honour Killings”. What is that? Most stupid, juvenile excuse for the reptilian behavior that we are unable to curb inspite of the fact that our ancestors branched off millions of years ago.

Another case in point is this story. Now, the murdered girl was a close friend of a very close friend of mine. And we knew she was innocent, i.e. she had no outside affair. But, her husband killed her committed suicide. Two lives wasted, the TV news channels had a field day (or days) running the story. There was a huge public outrage against the poor girl, with visitors attacking her on her orkut profile, so much so that they had to remove her site. Another case of Honour Killing.

One pointer, Human life is precious. There are about a 100 billion galaxies, each with an average of 100 billion stars, but there will not be humans elsewhere. SO whats the point of killing, that too for some vague term called ‘Honour’.