A small scene in the movie or a small article in the media can hurt the sentiments of our people, for which they can destroy marketplaces, stop the trains and transport, close the schools and colleges and can bring the whole life to a standstill. Reason, they site is that it has hurt the sentiments of the people/religion/nation or whatsover it is. And whatever they have done is the reflection of the national sentiment.
Does a small cartoon or picture or a writing has such a sentiment?
Recently in Kendrapara, a district in Orissa, some people of a community didn't participate in the Pulse Polio Immunisation Camp, saying that it may retard the growth of the child and lead to impotency. After much counselling by the health workers, some sent their daughters but not their sons. This is the level of knowledge and literacy there, it was a national press item, but where were our maulvis and pandits. I don't think this can be of any cause for them to come forward.
Till our so called messiahs and godfathers behave in such way, India can never be free from such dreaded diseases. A day will come when every second person in the country will have an HIV infection and the disease like Polio will be found only in our country.
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