RIGHT TO SLEEP ??

I aroused from my sleep hearing that. The tiredness and frustration of waking up at the wrong time came to me. I didn't know when I slept, finishing the final episode of the webseries. Nothing could compensate the sleep, other than just sleeping. I still wanted to sleep.

 But wait... What was that? A loud dissonant sound pierced into my ears. It was dark outside. I checked my mobile phone. It was just 4 am. The sound was from a loud speaker. Who's making such noise?

It was from the temple right next to my home. That wasn't a song or a bhajan but a chanting  by an unprofessional devotee with a terrible voice. That too by a loud speaker. It literally ruined my sleeping. The nuisance continued for a few more hours and I couldn't sleep till that ended.

I have no problem with any things happening in temple. Even if it's a church or mosque, I don't care. But I have problem with the loud noise in the wrong time.

I told my mother about this. She handed the conversation in a diplomatic way. I don't know, if it was some other institution in place of the temple, she might make a comment about it. Can't blame, in India, religion is a very sensitive thing. If there occurred a clash between religion and human, religion would gain the public support even if the human deserves justice. In short, not every human would stand for a human, if religion is the opposition.

I don't want to go deep into religion. Maybe next time. What I did was, I took the phone and made a Google search, which was...

Right to Sleep!

And I found...

Under Article 19(1) (a), read with Article 21 of the Constitution of India, the citizens have a right of a decent environment and they have a right to live peacefully, right to sleep at night and to have a right to leisure which is all necessary ingredients of the right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. People of India have a right to sleep and leisure. Disruption or disturbance in sleeps creates mental stress, deficient in working efficiency and other thing. 

Cool. What about the noise pollution?

Noise is a pollutant which causes material injury to the rights of an individual. It contaminates environment, causes nuisance and affects the health of a person and therefore, it exceeds a reasonable limit, offends Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. A bye-law of a Municipality requiring permission for using a loudspeaker does not infringe Article 19(1)(a). The World Health Organization has fixed 45 decibels as the safe noise level for a city. By the international standards, a noise level up to 64 decibels is considered tolerable.

Very well. It is so much important to get proper sleep. Because it is a biological imperative. It is not negotiable. Any degree of sleepiness will impair performance and mood.

So get proper sleep. Thanks.