Recently the murder of a teenage girl in her own home in Noida has been in the news recently. Thanks to the media, the case has been investigated speedily and some progress is visible after all. Today the news channels were bombarding us with this big breaking news that the teenager’s father has been arrested for murder. It is indeed a Breaking news…a heart breaking one. Whatever may be the case but it is horrifying enough to even suggest that a father could kill his own daughter, that too in a pre-meditated fashion. Even if we give some concession to parents that they can do such a thing in a fit of rage but nothing can explain a pre-planned murder of one’s own child.
Nowadays my son has found a new interest in seeing videos and images of planets, stars, galaxies etc. and when I see these images scaled down it is amazing to see that our very own sun is just a dot from a ball-point pen compared to the other stars of our galaxy. Earth looks non-existent even in our galaxy. On that earth we as individuals are not even there. Still we create the whole universe around us thinking we are at the centre and the whole universe revolves around us. We cannot tolerate if someone does wrong to us. We cannot tolerate our own wrongs to be known to others. We are continuously caught up in a web of jealousy, hatred, anger, frustration and what not. We alone and not God or the Creator hold the keys to others’ lives. Can the urge to hide one’s own wrong doings be strong enough to kill someone? Can our children actually defame us enough to get killed in a planned manner by us?
My mind is in a turmoil due to the shock of this incident. My home in Delhi is quite near to where the incident took place. I am not even able to organise my thoughts over this issue. I get the jitters thinking about that innocent girl alive a few days ago …happy to be alive. Does one deserve so brutal a punishment for being there?
Can we ever think beyond ourselves? Is our one lifetime bigger than the lifetime of this earth?
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