Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Who is responsible for Dr Siras' death?

It's sad, shocking and the people responsible for it deserve a harsh punishment so that others learn the outcome of playing with someone's private life. I am talking about the alleged suicide of professor Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, the Aligarh Muslim University professor who was suspended from the University, after being filmed having consensual sex with a rickshaw-puller at his home in the University Campus. He was found dead in his apartment and police suspects suicide.

Though he was reinstated back in University after he appealed in court against his suspension, surely the scars never healed. How humiliating it must be for the man, to be subjected to that kind of mental cruelty? Indian being a democracy, any citizen is free to practise whatever he wants as long as it is not a criminal activity. Ones sexual preference is their private matter and all those who made public his private moments should be held guilty of breaking an important law of India's Constitution.

As a society, when will we learn to look at the skeletons in our cupboard and stop accusing anyone who dares to go against the general social norms?Those who filmed the Professor need to be punished severely for not respecting an individual's privacy and then should be the ones hiding their faces with society shunning them. If this was a suicide, all of us who made fun of the poor man when he was caught in camera need to hang our heads in shame for driving a human being to this.

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