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I have too often complained to my inner self of the way the world is deteriorating – in standards, moral values, human ethics, respect, integrity, honesty, commitments and more such endless list of ‘feel good’ words. I have spiritually taken myself to be a wiser soul than the rest of the race and thus I tend to find faults with others. Someone chatting away his time in the office seems like a laggard to me. Irresponsible. As I walk past my colony gates, I notice young street kids playing, I think they have a tendency to remain poor or else they could have gone to schools.

During my routine metro trips to the office, I see people playing music on their speaker cell phones not caring for someone else’s comfort or even the legal disallowing of the same. I notice people staring at the female strength with digging eyes. Several times, I have spotted men spitting where it is disallowed or morally objectionable. I complain. I register a strong growing sense of my superiority over others as I do not indulge in such acts. Shameful and inhuman for me.

But does this really make me the torch-bearer for humanity, for the good? Does it make me ‘the good Samaritan’ that I have firmly believed I am over all these years? Does it give me the moral right to police everyone around me with a disgusting list of Do’s and Dont’s?

Most of you will not agree with me. Even my real inner self doesn’t – if I poke it down a little deeper. The recent “morally inspired attacks” in the sub urban town of Mangalore and nearby areas relate very well to my thought process. I feel a deep, real connection to the victims as well as the perps.

The infamous – Sri Ram Sene – are committing self proclaimed righteous acts of sanity in the name of culture, to preserve our values as the great Hindus. But where have we in scriptures or the Vedas or any holy texts got mentioned that a woman hanging out with a boy/man is loose. A Hindu girl holding hands with a Muslim boy is ruining the community worldwide. Ah! The fallacies of human mind! Is there any logical explanation to the madness that few men of no dignity have displayed over the years in the name of correcting and preserving the Hindus, the culture.

If this is so, will anyone explain the nation’s top political cadre held by a woman of foreign identity. How will they explain being led by qualified women in top sectors like banking, media and finance? Don’t they pose a significant threat to our culture just because they are women who have taken the courageous step to stand up and lead right beneath the vulnerable man.

I thank all those women and men too who have taken upon themselves to right these morally incorrect people in their own little ways. I extend gratitude to all those people who have contributed unknowingly towards the destruction of an ushering false superiority in people like us. I find no logical right to correct someone just because he is doing what we think is wrong.

One last question, I pose to the almighty. It is he who has created those who believe in him and those who do not. I dare ask him what makes a true Hindu or any other sect for that matter? Can he ever come down and tell us what is his religion – is he a Hindu who wants to set the wronged followers right? Is he a Muslim who has passed on the philosophy of ‘Jihad’ in an entirely wrong sense?

If he has never ever set out guidelines to decide what is ethical and what not, who are the so-called moral police of our country to do so? India, being such diverse culturally owes its share of misunderstandings. But the motto should be to do our duties right first and then stand up to the world and proclaim – Men have only one religion – Humanity. Any fight to sustain this religion will enjoy a universal support, every time, anytime.