More Modest Proposals
Who can vow that he has seen ten people he knows intimately and none had significant behavioural problems. Swift’s idea in his satirical masterpiece A Modest Proposal which proposed that the poor Irish may consider easing their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich people was to shock people out of complacency and insensitivity towards issues that they pass by. I think in Kashmir it is impossible to shock people perhaps for the reasons karwan kae dil sae ehsas-i- ziyaan jata raha . Or is it because we have converted life into an object of art? Or we are Nietzschean Zarathustras not vulnerable to pity and sons of the soil of saints who are said to be “beyond good and evil" ? Humane Slaughter of New Generation “Papa, would you please slaughter me?” a five year old child asked. “Why?” asked the shocked father. “Then I will join God and willn’t have to go the school.” I heard this dialogue few days back and can assert that something similar can be