If you Stone Sherubtse College

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I have been following Kesang Choden, an emerging women activist, on her quest to dig out the fathers of the children born out of wedlock especially in the east. It is a serious issue, one that merits the national attention. If we don’t start now, it will be too late. People who have “planted the wild seeds” (to borrow the phrase from the activists) must be taught a lesson. And for the same reason, I have volunteered to be the first Sherubtsean to test my DNA for the coming up of a DNA Bank and I am ever willing to support the activists for this noble social cause.

 

For the last so many years, these mothers have suffered in silence. Now it is time to finally reveal the identities of those hiding “fathers”. This can be the Judgment Day. Unidentified fathers have come thus far without a tinge of guilt whatsoever.  

And especially having gone through this experience of never having a man to call a “father” I can easily connect with those children out there. I understand their feelings inside out. I don’t know how it feels to have someone called father at my side. I have tried through fiction, but so far my attempt at fiction writing is without much result.

I understand many Sherubtse graduates must have left their legacies in the villages. Some may have done it deliberately while others may have committed the blunders without realizing that they might have fathered some children in the locality.

The point is to get at those people who have shunned their moral responsibility. I agree when the activists talked of identifying fathers and asking them to pay money for the years that they have neglected their children. It is a good way to apologize the mistake.

But Sherubtse is an institution. Lyonchhen does not own it neither does it belong to Home Minister. It is not handed down to the Education Minister through his ancestral heritage. For that matter Sherubtse is the not the property of the Members of the Parliament or government or ruling or opposition party or National Council. And over the years it has produced finest human beings who today excel in all spheres of life. It is sad that the college authority failed to respond to this threat. 

As an alumnus I will not feel comfortable sitting back and watching people throw stones at College Gate.  This is to plead people behind the campaign to refrain from carrying out such a stupid act. Otherwise we will be forced to sue whoever dares and bring responsible people to justice. As some people pointed out, the activists should come up with some sensible ways to deal with the matter.

There is no point in throwing stones at the monkeys when the bear has eaten the maize. Aim at the right target!