Taslima Nasreen
No Country for Women - Humanism, Secularism, Feminism
In many parts of the world, you will not be arrested even if you kill, abuse, and sexually harass people in the streets. You will not be arrested if you curse people, beat poor pickpockets to death. But you will be arrested if you kiss your loved ones in India. A few days ago some people involved in ‘kiss of love’ movement were arrested.
In protest some students from Kolkata universities kissed each other in front of Kolkata public. Those brave students are now criticized by politicians, writers and intellectuals. Shame on them! They grew up watching people hating, stabbing, shooting, and slaughtering. They don’t get shocked anymore when they see blood, chopped off limbs, and severed heads laying on the streets. But they get shocked when they see young people loving and kissing. Violence is not obscene but kiss of love is obscene for most people in India.
Kiss of love
Everybody knows heart has nothing to do with love. But still we talk about heart while we express our love. Is a blood pumper more romantic than the brain, the most amazingly fascinating, mysterious, powerful organ of the human body? I don’t think so.
You don’t get it. Do you? Try another way.