Fundamental duties of Indian citizens

The following are the Eleven Fundamental Duties of every citizen of India:

(a) To abide by the Constitution and respect the National Flag and the National Anthem;

(b) to cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our national struggle for freedom;

(c) to uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India;

(d) to defend the country and render national service when called upon to do so;

(e) to promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood amongst all people of India transcending religious, linguistic and regional or sectional diversities and to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women;

(f) to value and preserve the rich heritage of our composite culture;

(g) to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wild life and to have compassion for living creatures;

(h) to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform;

(i) to safeguard public property and to abjure violence;

(j) to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activity, so that the nation constantly rises to higher levels of Endeavour and achievement."

(k) to provide opportunities for education by the parent the guardian, to his child, or a ward between the age of 6-14 years as the case may be.

Capital Punishment

Everybody keeps asking me to support their petitions that demand capital punishment for the publicized rapists. Firstly I can not understand how easily everybody is ready to condemn somebody to death. In the country well known for its innocent until proven guilty policies they want to create a loop sided law. What I wanted people to understand that it is not the law that has to be changed but the people. No amount of laws can prevent the people from doing such crimes unless they are allowed to change.

Yes! I believe these criminals must be punished severely. Castration and life imprisonment are both sufficient forms of punishment for rapists. I implore you to think in the direction of why these crimes are committed. This is not a hate crime, the guys did not hate the girl. These were crimes born of sexual desires and noneducational circumstances. The media that is bragging every where about it's role in fighting such crimes. They say it is because of their effective actions that the problem is now being solved. Well I believe the media to be responsible for these incidents in the first place.

Let me talk about rough facts here. How many films have you seen that did not have a female figure that is sexually attracted to a male. How many news channels do you know that do not broadcast about an MMS the moment it is released. The power of media can never be denied. How do you think the uneducated masses who may never have had education beyond primary school but seen a 100 movies of sex and rape scenes and gossiped after each release of MMS.

I do not say that these culprits are victims of the influence of media. I merely state that they still deserve a chance to live and rectify their mistakes. Nobody becomes a thief to steal, they do so to get money which they have no other way of getting. These people have the right to education, they need to be taught to tell the difference between right and wrong. Death does not give a second chance. How many people can say that these guys after finishing jail term will not become a better person if educated correctly.