Please, come inside my bedroom door and tell me what to do. Tell me how to sleep, how to walk and how to eat. Because sexuality is as natural to me as these actions are to any heterosexual in our country. But please, disregard the fallacy of your backward arguments and continue dictating how I live my life because you can't open your mind to other possibilities, and continue living in the gutter you've dug for yourself.
Please, go ahead and dictate my life, regardless of the fact that we live in a country that flourishes in poverty, a country that can’t seem to feed itself and continuously starves. Disregard the millions of children who can’t get an education and are forced into labour and prostitution. Disregard the criminals you seem to be okay with running the country, and instead, sit and decide what the citizens of the country you make laws for should do behind locked doors.
Go ahead, we don’t mind at all.
We don’t mind that each and every day our politicians loot us of money that our country so desperately needs. We don’t mind that we’re alienated by the government of our own country, denied the right to question authority.
After all, who needs democracy, right? Let’s all regress back to an India where the Indians had no say in what happened. After all, its not the firangs ruling over us now, right? Its absolutely okay for Indians to rule over Indians with an iron fist.
So go ahead, tell us what to do. Tell us how we are wrong, how we don’t have the right. Tell us how we are abominations and that we are cursed, foul creatures sent by the Devil, by Asuras, to darken the world that your God created.
But don’t think that we’ll sit here quietly. We’re not your slaves, and you are not our colonial masters.
Please, instead of going on and on about how we are “modernized” and a country slowly reaching a “developed” status, have a look inside your own mind. You can’t think beyond your stereotypes and your discriminations.
How can you truly be modern, global individuals with a mind set like that?
What I can hope is that the youth of today will not become like you. We will not allow you to ruin our country for us because you can’t progress with new ways of thinking.
Go ahead and stay in your gutter.
But don’t drag the entire country with you.
