In a country of miserable ass-lickers, it was indeed heartening to see a photo in a daily newspaper showing the gay community of Mumbai protesting against police harassment. It takes guts to say you are gay in public. It must surely take even more guts to go out in public and protest against the Injustice System.
However, I sincerely doubt whether any gay person actually pays huftha to the local thana in order to carry on with his sex life.
Now look at our miserable ganja smoking ass-lickers who pay huftha, who get hassled day in and day out by the Injustice System – and who never protest.
Maybe it is because the "holy smoke" makes you peaceful Or "dopey." Maybe they are just a bunch of "dopes." Maybe they never heard Marley or Tosh.
And then, if ganja smokers do not protest, what about the biggest ass-lickers of them all – the tobacco smokers. They have all bowed down to kiss pmk ramadoss' ass. If our The State can ban tobacco smoking, what hope is there for the ganja guys? I say, no hope at all. Only because they are ass-lickers.
Liberty requires ass-kickers.
As Bernard Crick, a socialist, wrote:
"Liberty requires courage. Free men stick their necks out."
The gays of India have shown this courage.
While the ganja smokers and tobacco smokers have proved themselves to be just a bunch of gandoos.
When life is as bad for the ganja smokers as it was for gays.
ReplyDeleteI think it's absurd to compare the fundamental human right to love ('the love that dare not say its name' is how Oscar Wilde referred to homosexual love) with the right to smoke or get intoxicated as one chooses. There is no doubt ganja should be legalised, but dealers in this substance are criminal for the simple reason that they deal in ganja precisely because it is illegal and there are huge profits to be made. If ganja were legal, genuine entrepreneurs would enter the scene and those looking for quick, huge profits would probably switch to some other illegal activity. Maybe ganja smokers do not protest as vehemently for its legalisation because they don't care too much. Gays and lesbians, on the other hand, are outraged by laws that do not allow them even to love in peace.
ReplyDelete"However, I sincerely doubt whether any gay person actually pays huftha to the local thana in order to carry on with his sex life."
ReplyDeleteWhat are huftha and thana?
May I humbly remind you, Sauvik, you are having an international readership, at least one reader from China?
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Dean
Sorry Dean: Huftha is an illegal tax collected by the police every week from all kinds of people, including street vendors and, of course, ganja dealers. The word "huftha" means "week" in Hindi.
ReplyDeleteThe word "thana" is the Hindi word for a police station.