Christuraj Alex Poet Haibun

Honor Killing

Is this an exception? Isn’t inter-caste marriage a taboo even today in the Indian sub-continent? Being born into two contradicting castes yet mad in love for each other, they knew their kith and kin would let them not live together. They decided to go far away from the inhuman world. They knew they’d be easily tracked were they to travel by bus or train or airplane.  They walked through the hills and vales eating from the plants, drinking from the streams, and resting under trees. Lo! They surrounded them. The villains of love! Torturing them, slaughtering, they threw them in the Holy River who could not swallow up their holy bodies rather floated them in procession.

hands held together
two lovely wedded angels
to eternity

“Since formation in 2014, Telangana has witnessed at least 50 murders related to inter-caste love liaisons and marriages” – Deccan Chronicle, Thursday, June 10, 2021. 

10 June 2021

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L Milton Hankins June 10, 2021 at 8:54 AM This is so unbelievably sad, Christuraj, but it does draw attention to a terrible travesty that is happening even in our modern world. Thanks for sharing. Christuraj Alex June 10, 2021 at 9:20 AM Thank you very much.

Joanna Daniel June 10, 2021 at 3:30 AM I know, this sounds so out of place in a so-called modern age, you have shone the light on a social evil that still painfully exists, Christuraj:) Christuraj Alex June 10, 2021 at 6:48 AM Thank you very much.

Victor Buhagiar June 10, 2021 at 1:28 AM Thou shalt not kill. Full stop. No reason is sufficient for such an act. Christuraj Alex June 10, 2021 at 3:21 AM Yeah. You are right.

JC Brul June 10, 2021 at 12:52 AM Oh this is very sad! why do they need to suffer such misfortune because of love? Christuraj Alex June 10, 2021 at 12:56 AM Thank you for the reflection and comment.