News analysis: Let’s find humanness
If you are interested in reading everyday news, you will have mixed feelings. Some news you like it, some you don’t. Some is painful reading and some you even cry or become angry. As a human this is normal.
A couple of weeks back, I read news headline, “barbed wire is a beautiful sight.” Really? Looks like our definition of beauty has changed. Though I know, “beauty is in the eye of beholder.” At the same time, I understand how painful it was when Lord Jesus was given crown of thorns during crucifixion.
On the other hand, I was extremely disturbed when I read in this 21st century, someone in this state made casual reference to hanging in public places. Readers, it is Saudi custom to chop off heads in public places. I call it Bedouin culture. Hanging in public places takes place in Iran or North Korea. It happened decades ago in the U.S. too. Are we ready to watch it here now? That is why a few weeks back I wrote “choice of words matters.”
I am sure everyone will like to read that a man in his late 80s and a woman in her 90s got married recently. That’s where lies love and beauty.
Jiben Roy
Columbus
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