So Mr., my mistake MLA, Ganesh Joshi was just a horse. Yes, I am talking about this incident of beating up a horse that was used as a barricade in some protest rally. This BJP MLA after being stopped by the Uttarakhand police decided it was absolutely okay to beat up a mute creature in order to let out the rage. I mean are you even aware of what you were doing? With due respect to your political inclinations, your act was hideous and shameful. Shaktimaan was just a horse serving the humans. Lathi charging an animal because the law stopped you from carrying on a protest march, where are your senses, sir?
Leaving out on your political fidelity, tell me where you stand as a human being. You beat up an apparently helpless creature, which was forced to serve the human beings and break his leg. The poor animal does not even complain, just that he slowly falls to the ground. Where is the element of kindness in you, sir? The horses broken hangs limply and you say you have done nothing. This is just one of the many examples of cruelty that characterizes human nature now. This is just one of the many outrageous incidents coming under the limelight.
True that human beings are the most powerful creatures, but does that mean we really have the right to practice undue brutality? Why do we always have to be this brutal? There is unrest all over the world. Humans are getting crushed by the power and greed of humans, and now animals – the poor fellows are coming under this maddening rage. There are lots of things to be mad about, to be uncomfortable about – a lot is happening around us that make our blood boil, but does it really justify when we forget our humanity? If we at all do not check ourselves at certain points do we really stay in the position to differentiate ourselves from the wild creatures inhabiting forests? I do not think so.
I am an animal lover. So when I came across this news, this news of such cruelty- I felt extremely enraged. But then I understood that such momentary rage gives way to such brutality. What we need to figure out is that we have working brains and its usage is free of cost. Many might just criticize me for writing an article on a seventeen-year-old injured horse sitting in a country where innumerable human beings die every day, but to them I would say, it is not just about the horse, it is this blind rage that scares me, worries me about the future that lies ahead. These people who indulge in such insensibility today might just sit in a power position tomorrow. The thought of how he or she will treat of the people of the country makes me worried.
I am happy Shaktimaan is recovering. I hope he stands up to be a happy horse again. But this incident will keep on haunting me. The question of who is actually safe under this human race will keep on bugging me.
