Guys.. Do checkout Amnesty International site. Along all my musings, worries, concerns and heartaches.. after various long and short, sensible and explosive arguments with friends and others, I've come to a conclusion that the real essense of my feeling is distilled and extolled by this Organisation. My rantings against nationalism, religious fanaticism, racism and utter rejection of any differentiantion in the way we humans ought to treat each other boils down to this very basic, much bandied but seldom paid heed to term ' Human Rights'.
Today I tried to join Amnesty but found that the only way people other than from select few countries (Residents of these few countries can become members online) can become members is by contacting them on a postal address based in UK! I sure do have a word or two to say about this gross injustice. They could alteast have provided an email link to send in an application!
However I hope that Amnesty will be the medium which will give me a platform to make my voice heard, and atleast put my heart at rest, at having done a bit more than paid mere lip service to Human cause. Hence my effort to join it will continue. If in the end I have worked towards making life a little better, a little safer for a single individual on this earth, if my experiance with Amnesty allows me a bit of a solace, that I have atleast realised an obligation towards not only fellow humans, but also my dear Naqiyah whom I've born to this less than perfect and oh so cruel world, I will feel satisfied ( I hope).
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