Recognition & Promotion
Last night, when we returned home after watching ‘Kaminey’ at around 11.30, we were all feeling hungry. All four of us went about fending something for the common cause. My wife, Anjali was cutting onions & tomatoes for the Egg- Bhurji, my daughter, Sakshi started preparing Papri-Chaat with salted flakes (Namakparaas) as Papri was not there in the stock. My son, Akshay had lot of home-work to catch up with, for his class the next day. He had finished his college at 5 in the evening, before he could go to the cinema hall, which was close by to his college to fetch tickets for the 8.20 show. He had then gone over to his friend’s house. In between he had also had another trip to college to get some file from his hostel friends which he was to work from. He went on to spreading his papers on the study table, to save on the time he would have to spend once he was through with his midnight supper. I was beating eggs. We had got some chapattis too from the Tandoor-wala on our way back from the movie theatre.
It was a wonderful evening out for the family. We had been to a very entertaining movie after many days, which all four of us liked alike. Kaminey was a thriller and kept us on our seat’s edge all through.
Someone said that, this movie has made us feel the hunger pangs. Though this is also a fact, that none of us had had anything dinner-ish, in the evening. Yet the talk took off!
‘How’, Anjali exclaimed.
‘You burn you energies and metabolism works faster than normal while watching such high-paced thrillers and thus you tend to feel hungry after that’, I shot in with my knowledge of chemicals and their effects inside our bodies.
Akshay was reading the newspaper. He has this habit of updating himself with the news in the day’s end, as he finds no time for that in the mornings when he is to rush for his college. He would read the newspaper with dinner or else shall carry it to the loo, the last stop for the three of us before we go off to sleep. Sakshi is not a musketeer!
‘Baba Ramdev says, Homosexuality is a disease like Masturbation’, ‘How weird’, he commented and looked at us.
‘I think he is one hundred percent right. Homosexuality is pervert state of mind and disgusting act. I don’t approve of that’, I must respond to every eager eye!
‘The primary purpose of having sex was procreation. Homosexuality is thus not in any way a natural or human act. Even animals don’t indulge in that!’. Anjali gets very furious and agitated on such extreme aberrations of any kind in our society and accepted social behaviours. This is one such, in her opinion.
The earlier discussion on the metabolism and its role after viewing a thriller was over with my last word! The next one needed attention now.
“It has been proved biologically by scientists that there are genes which govern your sexual patterns, likes and dislikes and homosexuality is one such choice on which there is no human control as the ultimate and supreme genetic calling makes it happen”, Akshay forms opinions very fast and is up with his reasoning as well!
“Genes have got mutated and distorted to that extent by such thoughts and acts over the years”, Anjali responded.
“Can you please stop this rotten discussion after such a pleasant evening and such a good thriller” (Kamino…), Sakshi doesn’t like to get involved in such talks which are crude and where she in her prudence has seen no result emerging at the end of even many hours.
We all obeyed and enjoyed the preparations which were ready by now. There was a small portion of rice & sambhar also. We laughed and talked about Priyanka’s and Shahid’s beautiful acts and moved over. Just that, that I started thinking of that again this morning.
“Ramdev is not correct!”, I had resolved within myself on a spur. It just flashed into me. We, the normal and tamed (socially) human beings, most of the time, do not relate with problems which we don’t go through. ‘Dyslexia’ until ‘Taare Zameen Par’ was not appreciated, and we had always wondered (hell!), as to what is so wrong with these children, whom we now grant their space, because of improvement in our knowledge and perceptions about such special ones! We are more human to their special status & needs, and take care accordingly. Homosexuals would have to wait a little longer as sex is taboo around us. They shall also find an ‘Aamir Khan’ to address to their status and change our misplaced and distorted (in our own minds) visions to their ‘special’ needs and problems!
By recognizing the differences between us, the humans, we don’t necessarily promote them. Respect to diversified human existence is the key to our humane behavior, chemicals and their roles in our dispositions notwithstanding. Akshay had not slept with the last word, but in my new found understanding this morning, he wins!
Fear and respect the unknown Swamiji!
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As regards the perception of the whole issue you may be right, that probably the likes of ‘babaji’ need to have a more humane perspective ,but at the same time you yourself have unknowingly admitted that it is definitely a deviation from the normal as you throw in comparisons with dyslexia.So if ‘babaji’ recognizes it as a disease he may not be very wrong ,but it is only the treatment part which could be more empathetic and sympathetic than what he proposes!Anyways, here is an issue which needs a more in-depth consideration than what the the supporters and the opposers would like to prove to the suitability of their means/purpose.So,kudos !Lets have more such reflections and ruminations!Good food for thought!