Just finished reading two wonderful works from Khaled Hosseini. Two of the most touching stories I have ever read. I started with The Kite Runner and by the time I completed reading, my hands were trembling and had a lump in my throat.
When I started reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, there was a time I felt my heart to be too timid to complete the book. The horrifying life the women and children were and are forced to live. Then I somehow completed the book and this time my heart was trembling.
Ofcourse these were works of fictions but these show the reality of life in Afghanistan, how the living conditions have deteriorated in the last 30 years. But for the greed of erstwhile Soviet Union and the U.S.A., this place could have been a better place to live.
How can GOD, the most merciful creator be so cruel with so many people at the same time. Now I wonder, what would the people of Iraq would be going through right now. Another place, human greed made a hell of.
Reading these two books, I found stark similarities with the lives women and children live in rural India, where people dont even think twice before killing their new born infant daughters, where women have no voice and have to live in a veil for their entire life, where love is a such a crime that girls are stripped and paraded before being killed in the name of family honour.
The truth is, what happens in the tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan happens in rural areas of a democratic country like India, which boasts of equal rights for all its citizens and claims to be the leader of the world in the 21st Century.
How do we claim our country to be on the doorsteps of the developed world, when half of our population is still not enjoying the basic rights a human being deserves.
MAY GOD HELP US.
When I started reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, there was a time I felt my heart to be too timid to complete the book. The horrifying life the women and children were and are forced to live. Then I somehow completed the book and this time my heart was trembling.
Ofcourse these were works of fictions but these show the reality of life in Afghanistan, how the living conditions have deteriorated in the last 30 years. But for the greed of erstwhile Soviet Union and the U.S.A., this place could have been a better place to live.
How can GOD, the most merciful creator be so cruel with so many people at the same time. Now I wonder, what would the people of Iraq would be going through right now. Another place, human greed made a hell of.
Reading these two books, I found stark similarities with the lives women and children live in rural India, where people dont even think twice before killing their new born infant daughters, where women have no voice and have to live in a veil for their entire life, where love is a such a crime that girls are stripped and paraded before being killed in the name of family honour.
The truth is, what happens in the tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan happens in rural areas of a democratic country like India, which boasts of equal rights for all its citizens and claims to be the leader of the world in the 21st Century.
How do we claim our country to be on the doorsteps of the developed world, when half of our population is still not enjoying the basic rights a human being deserves.
MAY GOD HELP US.
The Kite Runner, didn't read it but saw the film, the story was damn good. The best thing about the story was its unpredictability.
ReplyDeleteAbout India, such things are not restricted to rural areas, even in the best of cities and the best of homes, similar things happen.
The difference in Afghanistan and India is that its the Talibs who have made the place hell after the Soviet entered. In India, its the common people who have made life hell for women and men are not ashamed of such acts, they believe its a social norm!