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Have we no more real heroes & heroines?
Morung Express | Dr Sandeep Pandey | September 8 :
The other person who has achieved exalted status in our society, although people don’t know much about her, is Irom Chanu Sharmila. She can only be described as a super human. For more than ten years she has been fasting in Imphal demanding the repeal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
If AFSPA is lifted it’ll bring relief to the citizens of entire Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir. The determination demonstrated by Sharmila is unprecedented. Alone, she has gone on without bothering about the outcome of her efforts. The government is not paying any attention to her but that doesn’t distract her from her goal or the method she has adopted to achieve it. Can the condition of Sachin playing with fever even be compared with Sharmila fasting for ten continuous years in a hospital ward under arrest and with a rubber tube inserted in her nose? It’ll be an affront to people like Sharmila.
It is a pity that we have stopped respecting the real heroes and heroines of our society and have to look for people from sporting or glamour world as our icons. People in middle class would know more about some obscure bollywood actress than about Irom Sharmila. This also shows the degradation of values in our society. We feel comfortable with the artificial.
If we worship the real heroes and heroines then we may be asked to make some sacrifice ourselves. In a consumerist world making sacrifice would be considered a foolish thing. But if we have to remain a humane society where human relationships are valued, which is essential for our existence, then the consumerist world will not help us achieve it.
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