Yet again, for the nth time honour killing took away a precious life in Miryalguda of Nalgonda District. Pranay Kumar and Amrutha Varshini were in love and got married to lead a positive life. The twist and turns in their life led to Amrutha’s father resorting to a dastardly act of killing Pranay.
So inhuman and the guilty needs to be willy-nilly punished. This incident has caused immense pain to all and has certainly triggered our thinking on the primitive mindset born out of a typical dominant patriarchal society.
The untimely and violent death of a young life is not only painful for the family, but also for all sensitive individuals in the society and every right-thinking individual should condemn such incidents unequivocally.
The caste, religion shows its ugly face and even in death, the society talked about caste creed and religion. “Pranay was a Dalit Christian from the Scheduled Caste while Amrutha belongs to the Vaishya caste.”That could be the main reason for killing Pranay as a matter of prestige, but Amruthas father must have thought about the life of a human being before taking such a decision.
Pranay is a Dalit is a fact, he is a Christian is a fact, but his life is important and no individual has a right to take away a precious life. Amrutha’s father should not be allowed to go scot-free and take the necessary action.
The Media on its part has the habit of tossing an issue for a while, to drop it dead and pick another based on ‘public interest’. But they must also weigh the pros and cons and not use it for the TRPS and readership.
The people who just marry blindly forgetting about the aspirations, society and family must also think twice before blindly falling in love and forgetting about the pain that they would cause to the parents who have groomed them from their childhood. Loving someone is different and at the same time causing pain and agony to the parents is also not correct.
If the youngsters think twice this killing might not have taken place, and if the father took some time to understand his daughter, the death could have been stopped.
Killing someone for the sake of Prestige is not right.
