the unfairness of fighting for honour

21.03.2026

S: It is an unfair fight, the fight for honour.

A: In what sense?

S: If your skin colour is right and you are part of the dominant culture, you are automatically accorded honour and respect. If you are in any way different, then you are not. Instead, what you get is suspicion and disrespect. It is us that have to fight for honour. They get honour and acceptance no matter how bad their behaviour is, how contemptible they are.

A: Why not accept the unfairness of this world?

S: To be like them is to live a life of sin.

A: Why live in hell? Why fight this losing battle?

S: It is destiny. I have been named after the hero that saves Mother India’s honour. We come from the honour society. It is more precious than life.

A: Fight in this unfair fight then.

S: They have made it us against them. This war of the spirit. But our spirit is greater. We are the victors whatever happens because we fight the good fight. We are just and we have honour. They do not. We have big hearts and big spirits. They do not. We will never lose. It is us against them.

A: Whatever your virtue, there is no reward.

S: You cannot buy the good. You cannot buy the hero. You cannot buy The Tiger.

A: Is it enough to be The Tiger?

S: In the Hindi film Gadar 2, the hero says that to know him, ask his enemies who he is. The Tiger is what this world fears. Because The Tiger is absolute power. The hand of the Mother Goddess, The Warrior Queen, it is upon his head. Her son and her lover.

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