HONOURING LIFE

Reading the condemning news of the blasts in Delhi points out how perpetrators have little value for another's life totally ignoring the fact that everyone values his life, weaves hopes and dreams and no one would ever wish to die being a victim to suicide bombing or a victim of bomb blasts, leaving behind bereaving families who will never ever get to see the husband who left to work, or the child who left to school or the mother who went for some errand or the brother or sister who stepped out. Death is inevitable and is accepted somehow when it comes as a result of disease, oldage or natural catastrophies. Two years ago, I had seen a movie at the Kerala International Film Festival, titled, "Paradise Now". It was a famed movie that won several international awards and was made by a Palestinean director Hany Abu Asad, that dwells into the minds of 'suicide bombers' that believe in a cause. In the movie, even their own families don't know they are trained and potential suicide bombers, which in all probability is the case of real life assailants. A cause as confusing and unjustifiable as their own fears and lack of vision or respect for another's life. But whatever be their cause, they consider that their mission their sole duty, even if it means they die for it or kill for it or get caught for such an atrocious act. Can the act of destroying life get anyone to any paradise, if it means killing innocent people and children who deserve to live. Paradise here or in after life, is a result of good deeds and not anything destructive. If the efforts and masterminding implemented in making and planting of bombs would be utilized in constructive ways that contribute to betterment of people, society or lives, we would have terror free nations.