Every alternate day, I am shocked to read such headlined item in the Indian newspapers of repute that another 'honour killing' took place at such and such town. Indian media has grown over the years but using such phrases like 'honour killing' do not fit the incidents reported by them. There is no such thing called 'honour killing' and one should not start thinking that such killings are different from plain murders. These are just murders and nothing else. Media in its zeal to coin a new term has given us a false understanding on these kind of murders by family people.
Indians only knew that our soldiers on the border kill enemy combatants for keeping honour of motherland and for which Indian panel code section 302 is not applicable. We knew that it is the killing for honour of our country. Surely, we never knew in our wildest dreams that a brother, father, uncle, mother and other close blood relations would also kill very own blood in the name of keeping false honour. We also did not know that media which has better sense of looking through the lines would start calling these plain murders as 'honour killings'.
Indian society though claims to have undergone change is infact failing to accept the truth that education helps in removing old dogmas, biases and prejudices amongst its members. It is different that a politician whose survival is based upon maintaining such irrationalities would prefer status quo. Indian legal system has truely accepted such killings as plain murders but unfortunately, our political leaders are still unchanged, intentionally or unintentionally. My hats off to all those legal and judicial members of Indian establishment who have refused to succumb to such petty people pressure but you never know!!
My request to the Indian media people is to call these killings as pure murders without using such coinages like 'honour killing' etc.
I hope someone is listening to me.
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