When he won the Oscar award, A. R. Rahman said in his acceptance speech, 'All my life I have had the choice between love and hate. I have chosen love and I’m here.’ How true! Love rocks & Hate sucks. I think all the dudes from Taliban, Shiv Sena, Ram Sene, Jaish-E-Mohommad, Lashker-E-Toiba etc. should take a lesson from Rahman's simple words. Does it not make more sense to choose love and not hate? Why can't we learn to live and let live? What is wrong with sharing? Do these people really think they are showing manliness when they beat up women in bars or apply the Sharia laws which treat women worse than animals? Do they think they are making life better for people by banning all the beautiful things in life like education, music, poetry, books etc.? All my life I have seen the daughters of the strictest parents rebel while the daughters of the most liberal parents respect the freedom given to them. Why is it so? The simple reason is that every single person on this earth is looking for love and understanding. When you give someone freedom, you give them a message that you love and trust them and that feeling will be respected and reciprocated.
Once a reporter asked a very young and handsome religious guru with a huge female fan following how he practiced his celibacy. He said that you cannot change the world so when I feel that my eyes are registering something that I feel I should not be seeing, I advert my eyes. This should be a lesson to all those mullahs who say that there will be fewer rape cases if women are covered by a hijaab or burkha.
I once read some where that when a person seems least lovable, he/she needs the most love and compassion. History is proof that hate only brings pain and destruction so why not try love for a change? Instead of hating & complaining about the North Indians, why doesn't the Shiv Sena try to understand them and lovingly educate them about the Maharashtrian culture? I am sure they will understand. It might take time but then Rome was not made in a day. Painful as change is sometimes, it is the reality of life. You can't be struck in the stone age forever. Every person should have the right to be able to progress and you cannot curb that.
So why don't we all pledge to 'Make Love and not war' for a change. Why don't we leave aside our religious and geograpical differences aside and celebrate being human for a change and then one day like Rahman, we too shall proudly say that we chose love and we are in a peaceful world full of love and music. Jai Ho.
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