It is tough for anyone to have enough faith in the judiciary these days but the Supreme Court’s verdict on Wednesday on the assortment of cases against one time south siren Khushboo is a great one. The apex court has thrown out each and every of the 22 cases filed in various police stations of Tamil Nadu against Khushboo after she told a newsmagazine that she didn’t think pre-marital sex is taboo as long as the parties know what they were getting into and did it with mutual consent and protection. The magazine was carrying out a survey on the sex habits of the youth and it was in this context that Khushboo made the statement.
The apex court’s decision hopefully will be an eye-opener to a veritable army of morality-keepers this nation has, like centipedes during the monsoon, slow, smelly and totally disgusting.
Almost like a routine, after the New Year’s bash in some or the other hotel in some or the other small town with some or the other film starlet, we have these morality keepers coming out of the woodwork to file cases of obscenity against the starlets. Small town magistrates will then issue non-bailable warrants against these starlets as it is probably the only time these magistrates will get to see these starlets and earn a bit of name in their small town surroundings.
It is a win-win situation for everyone from the publicity seeking social activist and magistrate and to the starlet herself. The only loser is a small promise made by the founding fathers of this nation to the people who agreed to be part of it—the promise of freedom of thought and expression.
While someone like Khushboo gets pilloried for saying something perfectly sane, these same morality-keepers are nowhere in sight when shooting mouth syndrome (SMS) afflicted gentlemen like Baba Ramdev or Sri Sri Ravi Shankar or an army of chaps in the All Indian Muslim Personal Law Board come up with a gem.
Listen to the latest. An ayatollah from Iran –Kazim Sedhigi is his name- believes the increasing tendency of women to expose their cleavages is causing all the earthquakes in the world. If the genius ayatollah – I wonder if he got the degree on a fake marksheet- was right this time, then earthquake relief material should be a permanent fixture aboard every flight that Pamela Anderson takes.
Ramdev of course had a problem when the courts repealed the abominable Section 377 that had been used all these years to make homosexuals in this country readymade fodder for extortion by cops who without ever looking into the mirror believed that homosexuals are first rate signs of moral turpitude on an epic scale.
Now I have a few friends who are gay and have found them to be far better than us heterosexuals in many ways. The best part about them is a total negation of all things religious. In a nation like India, there can’t be a better start for any individual than by letting go off the religion that provides the sunshine that allows gentlemen like those mentioned above to make hay.
Hope in the coming years our courts come down so heavily on such self-styled morality keepers that it opens up this nation into an era when the only thing that would be a crime would be to have a closed mind.
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