Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Death Sentence




This is the story of a 12-year-old girl. She has dreams, aspirations, desires just like any one of us. She doesn’t have many friends, a reality which is a so insignificant that she manages to be ignorant about it. She believes in finding happiness within her, she believes in being charmed by everything around her. She believes that life is so beautiful and living every moment with a consciousness that you are enjoying it to the fullest is her biggest gift. But there is a problem. She has a physical ailment. She is HIV Positive and this is the story of a mockery of her dream, of the hate and malice which world has to give her in return of her beautiful smiles. She blesses everything around with her presence but what she gets in return is a curse, which is the price she paid for her only sin, Her Birth.

The police learn that an HIV Positive girl has been identified in the town. Their first reaction is of utter panic and they want to seize the culprit as soon as possible and shun her from the society. She is taken into custody immediately and will face a trail. Meanwhile, Junta also verdicts that this girl is a menace to the society and her curse will result in the downfall of entire nation. She has already caused too much of a disappointment and shame to us. All the press and media are against her too. But they question the government also. They argue: How did it take so much time for police to identify her? She must have passed the disease to several others. Have the police ensured that their trace is absolute? And there are none others except her? Where are her parents by the way? Schools are blamed. The education system is blamed for not imparting right information and right education to the wards.

Finally, the girl is brought in the court to face the common people. People have identified a judge to deliver a final message to the girl in question. She will be sentenced to death nonetheless but it should be a lesson to those others out there who attempt such a crime. This matter will be considered with zero tolerance. The security of the nation cannot be left at the mercy of one little girl who had the gall to bring a curse upon the mankind. The judge asks a jury to give their verdict. Every member of the jury represents one so-called intellectual corner of the society. And the verdict is unanimous. Being cursed by AIDS is a death sentence in itself. Every member of jury declares the verdict and finally judge announces that girl should be shown to the gallows. She is dead already. We will be doing a favor to her by giving her a quick death. That serves two purposes. It saves us from her curse; we will be in darkness and gloom as long as she sees the daylight. Secondly, it saves her from curse that she has brought upon herself. Man is the most magnanimous creature. He has not disappointed our history. He keeps proving to the mankind in every age that his existence is in a perfect harmony with nature.

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