Sad as it is the whole episode! A couple wanting to live on their own terms! A father unable to bear the betrayal of whom he carried on his shoulders and cleaned the shit when she was a baby-for 23 years. A helpless in-laws.
It is not just about a marriage and happy living of just a couple-it is also the heartache of a father (He should be condemned and law should take its course if he resorted to criminal methods-but that is another part).
Sadly the whole multifaceted grievous story is being dealt by the media as just only an inter-religious issue and that too taking sides only with a particular segment of the family.
Media lacks sensitivity! They lack the sensitivity of all involved people; behind a criminally accused man there lies a father; behind a lovable wife there lies an uncaring daughter; behind a loving mother of a son there lies a helpless financially no so well off house-wife. Let us leave the departed soul and spare him of any ill intentions, even if there are some.
But the moot point is while all the aforesaid factors remain as they are even in other parent--disapproved marriages and a murder happening of a groom or a bride, if they are not related to inter-religion, how many cases the media is reporting and their editors interviewing the victims?
Let them look at the backyards of their cities and towns, you will find many.
Is the media addressing the crime part or taking self-appointed cudgels on religious harmony? I am afraid latter!
