Monday, July 16, 2012
The short skirt politics
This is not the city we grew up in… The Guwahati that was had only love for everyone. Those who even drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes have showed respect to their elders. Forget molesting a 16-year-old teenage girl, eve teasing was a big deal.
The main accused of the last week’s molestation case, Amar Jyoti Kalita aka Bond as he appears on Facebook page, seem to be 33-year-old. Strange! Because in the city I knew, a 33-year-old man wouldn’t even eve tease a 16 year old girl.
The incident wasn’t planned, it wasn’t carried out by a bunch of men who knew each other and that’s what is scary. It only reflects a society’s immediate reaction to a mishap. When the Mumbai gets flooded, the city comes together, everyone pitch in, and people help strangers. When a girl gets molested on an upscale street in Guwahati, passerby tried to take advantage, added more to her plight. One molester attracted 20 more to undress her, pull her by her hair and a premier regional TV channel gets its cameraman to film it – a soft porn that gives the TV channel a never-seen TRP boost. Channels managing editor had a reason to capture it, says, without the video, cops would not have able to identify the culprits. True. But why smudge the victim’s face? Why not release the video to the authorities only?
Our tribal women can walk freely and fearlessly wearing mekhela wrapped above their chests, our women can welcome spring dancing Bihu in public, unlike a many neighboring states, ours is a state where the groom pays a token gesture to the bride’s family on the wedding day – looks like we changing for the worse?
I can see a social engineering that’s driving a society move back – to create a definite ‘us’ and ‘them’. Going back to the half a dozen molesters, who weren’t friends with each other, even the riders who rode by taking advantage of the girl that day, shows the hunger for flesh – not just in those who were involved, but in a society correctly. These hungry souls are all around us; walking, driving, riding. We can still see them. Whom we can’t see are the masterminds behind them.
Silly me. Seeing a lot of paradoxes among the news channel with the virgin footage, the minister who indirectly owns the news channel, and the prime molester who also works for the youth congress.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Why I won’t turn 26 this year?
-As a symbolic resistance against those who lied to me
-That hurting sentiments is actually in-human though many perceive it as cool (even ultra cool)
-That they should find insensitive people (like them) to play with and not the sensitive ones
-A lie is a lie is a lie, no matter what compelled us to do so
This is not my first ever effort to resist such people (liars) but this is my first ever effort NOT to CELEBRATE my Birthday in 25 years.
Every wish should take a day off my life! Thanks:-)
-That hurting sentiments is actually in-human though many perceive it as cool (even ultra cool)
-That they should find insensitive people (like them) to play with and not the sensitive ones
-A lie is a lie is a lie, no matter what compelled us to do so
This is not my first ever effort to resist such people (liars) but this is my first ever effort NOT to CELEBRATE my Birthday in 25 years.
Every wish should take a day off my life! Thanks:-)
Monday, February 16, 2009
So shit happens;-)
Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life – Standford Convocation speech by Steve Jobs.
For me, last 20 days have been just like a dream – for; some hated me, some loved. Some back-stabbed, some embraced me back. Some said I was a liar, some vouched for my honesty. But whatever it was, I loved my recent collision course!
Had I not met those unreasonable people, I won’t have gotten angry and felt desperate to break free. When I felt so, even recession couldn’t stop me from saying NO to NONSENSE. When I said no to nonsense, I felt confident, proud and bold.
Had my friend not ditched me, I won’t have felt suffocated, had I not felt so I won’t have left the place where I have given my best.
Had I not seen dirty politics, human insecurities, made-up fact files, organizational red-tapism… I would not have known why some loved my attitude and loved to have me back!
As they say, shit happens and because shit happened, I feel like a winner - so what if I am too tiny to fight big guys, so what if I looked like a criminal, so what if I had to defy an institution... I have also defied notoriety;-)
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life – Standford Convocation speech by Steve Jobs.
For me, last 20 days have been just like a dream – for; some hated me, some loved. Some back-stabbed, some embraced me back. Some said I was a liar, some vouched for my honesty. But whatever it was, I loved my recent collision course!
Had I not met those unreasonable people, I won’t have gotten angry and felt desperate to break free. When I felt so, even recession couldn’t stop me from saying NO to NONSENSE. When I said no to nonsense, I felt confident, proud and bold.
Had my friend not ditched me, I won’t have felt suffocated, had I not felt so I won’t have left the place where I have given my best.
Had I not seen dirty politics, human insecurities, made-up fact files, organizational red-tapism… I would not have known why some loved my attitude and loved to have me back!
As they say, shit happens and because shit happened, I feel like a winner - so what if I am too tiny to fight big guys, so what if I looked like a criminal, so what if I had to defy an institution... I have also defied notoriety;-)
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The most beautiful woman on earth turns a year older...
And I forget to wish her:-) There’s nothing that can justify the crime. But you know what it reflects – that I have become sincere in life. Something that you were dying to see had happened ;-) I was so much engrossed at work that I forgot to wish you. Is this the greatest gift I could have ever given you?
Wish you all the amazing things in the world, yes even a Sukhoi. And you know I still love you!
Wish you all the amazing things in the world, yes even a Sukhoi. And you know I still love you!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Santa's coming!
Santa, only one gift in my Christmas stockings – ‘Make me stronger and healthier, ’cos I am scared of ghosts in Gurgaon, there's the biggest ghost;-) It's too cold also, I am falling sick everyday’ :-(
Monday, December 8, 2008
Another Afzal Guru in the making?
I don’t know, I am only assuming considering the liberal country we live in. The reference is Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasav, the lone terrorist alive among the 10 involved in the recent Mumbai attacks who is now in police custody.
But Kasav is no less than a celebrity today – in last two weeks, we already know that the 21-year-old years for mutton and Big B films! He washes his own clothes (someday he may say he is inspired of Gandhiji) He also revealed his wish to live, and see his mother. In short he wants “forgiveness” which he assumed won’t be that difficult.
If we can happily watch Monica Bedi, ex wife of underworld don Abu Salem - a prime accused in ’93 blasts in Mumbai. If we can forgive Sanju baba for the same – and for choosing ‘Gandhigiri’ over ‘Gun’dhigiri – at least on screens. If we can overlook Dawood Ibrahim, who apparently is sitting pretty in Karachi – why won’t we forgive Kasav? After all, we have human rights organizations that are capable of questioning and defying the court of law on lack of evidence against Kasav – like we are doing with Afzal Guru or others involved in the Parliament attack. Our eminent human rights activists, social workers may demand govt to provide Kasav with mutton once daily, if not twice.... After all they have problems with army jawans getting 24 eggs in their breakfast.
Never the less, I see Kasav becoming a superhero in no time – so what if he had killed many innocents, so what he had killed at least a half-dozen fine police and security men, so what if we have lost around Rs 4000 cr during the attacks and much more as its reparations. So what if tourism revenue fell by at least 40% due to the attacks. So what if they have raped our country, and placed it on the chart of “one of the most insecure countries in the world…” This is incredible India, we let them rape, murder, ransack, loot our country and then we forgive them – because we’ve human rights to protect.
Or we let a 'toothless' US agent like Condoleezza Rice to speak on behalf of India -As she shouts, in vain "Pakistan must act fast, or US will." We believe her;-)
But Kasav is no less than a celebrity today – in last two weeks, we already know that the 21-year-old years for mutton and Big B films! He washes his own clothes (someday he may say he is inspired of Gandhiji) He also revealed his wish to live, and see his mother. In short he wants “forgiveness” which he assumed won’t be that difficult.
If we can happily watch Monica Bedi, ex wife of underworld don Abu Salem - a prime accused in ’93 blasts in Mumbai. If we can forgive Sanju baba for the same – and for choosing ‘Gandhigiri’ over ‘Gun’dhigiri – at least on screens. If we can overlook Dawood Ibrahim, who apparently is sitting pretty in Karachi – why won’t we forgive Kasav? After all, we have human rights organizations that are capable of questioning and defying the court of law on lack of evidence against Kasav – like we are doing with Afzal Guru or others involved in the Parliament attack. Our eminent human rights activists, social workers may demand govt to provide Kasav with mutton once daily, if not twice.... After all they have problems with army jawans getting 24 eggs in their breakfast.
Never the less, I see Kasav becoming a superhero in no time – so what if he had killed many innocents, so what he had killed at least a half-dozen fine police and security men, so what if we have lost around Rs 4000 cr during the attacks and much more as its reparations. So what if tourism revenue fell by at least 40% due to the attacks. So what if they have raped our country, and placed it on the chart of “one of the most insecure countries in the world…” This is incredible India, we let them rape, murder, ransack, loot our country and then we forgive them – because we’ve human rights to protect.
Or we let a 'toothless' US agent like Condoleezza Rice to speak on behalf of India -As she shouts, in vain "Pakistan must act fast, or US will." We believe her;-)
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
US's 9/11, India's 26/11: All a fake?
A Pak news channel airs the same!
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYlaF5_q1Y&feature=related
This footage from a Pakistani news channel, 24 hours post Mumbai attacks – questioning India’s ability to counter terrorism, questioning Indian security forces and defending themselves, in vain.
They have also misquoted former Indian law minister, through video picked from a random source. The channel’s anchor says “the former minister has declined Pak’s involvement in the recent attacks”. But a careful transcription of his voiceover has a different interpretation: The terrorists are uniting the whole world against Islamist countries by carrying out such attacks – because they create hostility between Islamic and non-Islamic nations. Since the non-Islamic countries have the Nuke-power, such terror activities might work against them and force the non-Islamic nations to use Nuclear weapons against the Islamic nations.
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=Eij5o7XizIA
Footage from the same news channel, where a Pakistani defence analyst went on record to say that the Mumbai attacks were plan hatched by the "Hindu Zionists" and "Western Zionists". He further adds, Indians have failed to fool the world like the US did on 9/11 – to unite the world against Afghanistan.
A word to word transcription of the footage: 9 /11 jo Americans ne kiya tha usko bahut khoobsurat camouflage kiya tha. Unhone media mein perception management bahut acchha kiya . Indians ne wahi game repeat karne ki koshish ki, lekin akal to hai nahin . In ahmakon ne complete disaster kiya isko handle karne mein .
In the 2nd half the footage, a PML parliamentarian openly says India ke sath jung chal rahee hai separate level pai. Are ‘we’ fools to talk aman? She also questioned the dignity of Indian foreign policies? What ‘dignity’ is she talking about when the Pakistani President flirted with then US Vice-Prez nominee Sarah Palin, said now I know why the whole American is crazy about you, and who wanted to hug her too.
There’s civil society in India that believe that there is no concrete evidence of Mohammad Afzal’s involvement in the 13th December, 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament for which he has been sentenced to death It includes writers, IAS officers and eminent Indians and non Indians like: Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Harsh Mandar, Praful Bidwai, Ali Engineer and Ammu Abraham. Hence Don't hang Afzal Guru.
The Pakistani defence analyst supports Kashmiri separatists groups, says they are a lesser threat than all the other separatist movements that are going on in India. Here we have a Booker Prize winning author who wants India to let go off Kashmir: India needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs azadi from India. Is she out of her mind? As a student of History, I could never find an answer to the partition – but as an Indian, not even in the history, right now I feel we are weakening our nation.
My Q: Should Afzal Guru be hanged till death, only because he failed to kill even one politician on the day he attacked the Indian Parliament?
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYlaF5_q1Y&feature=related
This footage from a Pakistani news channel, 24 hours post Mumbai attacks – questioning India’s ability to counter terrorism, questioning Indian security forces and defending themselves, in vain.
They have also misquoted former Indian law minister, through video picked from a random source. The channel’s anchor says “the former minister has declined Pak’s involvement in the recent attacks”. But a careful transcription of his voiceover has a different interpretation: The terrorists are uniting the whole world against Islamist countries by carrying out such attacks – because they create hostility between Islamic and non-Islamic nations. Since the non-Islamic countries have the Nuke-power, such terror activities might work against them and force the non-Islamic nations to use Nuclear weapons against the Islamic nations.
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=Eij5o7XizIA
Footage from the same news channel, where a Pakistani defence analyst went on record to say that the Mumbai attacks were plan hatched by the "Hindu Zionists" and "Western Zionists". He further adds, Indians have failed to fool the world like the US did on 9/11 – to unite the world against Afghanistan.
A word to word transcription of the footage: 9 /11 jo Americans ne kiya tha usko bahut khoobsurat camouflage kiya tha. Unhone media mein perception management bahut acchha kiya . Indians ne wahi game repeat karne ki koshish ki, lekin akal to hai nahin . In ahmakon ne complete disaster kiya isko handle karne mein .
In the 2nd half the footage, a PML parliamentarian openly says India ke sath jung chal rahee hai separate level pai. Are ‘we’ fools to talk aman? She also questioned the dignity of Indian foreign policies? What ‘dignity’ is she talking about when the Pakistani President flirted with then US Vice-Prez nominee Sarah Palin, said now I know why the whole American is crazy about you, and who wanted to hug her too.
There’s civil society in India that believe that there is no concrete evidence of Mohammad Afzal’s involvement in the 13th December, 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament for which he has been sentenced to death It includes writers, IAS officers and eminent Indians and non Indians like: Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Harsh Mandar, Praful Bidwai, Ali Engineer and Ammu Abraham. Hence Don't hang Afzal Guru.
The Pakistani defence analyst supports Kashmiri separatists groups, says they are a lesser threat than all the other separatist movements that are going on in India. Here we have a Booker Prize winning author who wants India to let go off Kashmir: India needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs azadi from India. Is she out of her mind? As a student of History, I could never find an answer to the partition – but as an Indian, not even in the history, right now I feel we are weakening our nation.
My Q: Should Afzal Guru be hanged till death, only because he failed to kill even one politician on the day he attacked the Indian Parliament?
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