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SOUND OFF! Who’s the real ogre asks Mirle Karthik
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Words like “monster” and “horrendous” are used to describe creatures that are enormous in size and which usually possess a formidable arsenal of fangs, claws, venom and the like to maim and kill the less physically endowed. Stories abound of such monsters like the Loch Ness Monster, the Hydra, the Yeti etc.
All exist only in myths and stories and their existence has never been proved. In the pre-historic times, lived the monstrous denizens of the still young and evolving earth, the dinosaurs. Those fearsome creatures, for all their size, had only pea-sized brains, functioning only to fulfil the most basic of instincts, of food and procreation. .
Closer home, the half-man, half-lion is worshipped as “Narasimha” an avatar of Lord Vishnu, the upholder of dharma, who destroyed evil beings to re-establish the rule of righteousness. None of these “beings” or “creatures” ever killed for the heck of it.
Now, what about the two-legged variety? With mental equipment evolved to such a high degree of sophistication as to verily destroy the very earth that supports them, these creatures commit such acts of depravity that one is at loss of words. That Austrian fiend who confined his daughter to a cellar of his house for 24 years and abused her, those devils who plant explosives to kill innocent people, those “death riders” who hit other unsuspecting drivers or pedestrians and just scoot, leaving them dead, disabled or injured, all without even a twinge of their consciousness. What are they if not monsters in the true sense of the term? These are the thoughts that race my mind as I stare at the limp body of my relative, as he lies in bed, unable to even move his limbs, after being hit by one such brute. One year on, as sheer helplessness looms forbiddingly, I ask myself who’s the real monster.
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