Tuesday, November 26, 2013
His pen………is mightier than the sword
The
recent sexual assault on a lady journalist of ‘Tehelka’, a news publication
that had a reputation to expose corruption in India, could have passed off like
any other ‘normal day incident’ in India. India stands tall in the corruption
chart globally, it just needed another rating to better it, and that is rape.
Since India cannot achieve global standards in any other area of development,
it strives hard to maintain what it is leading in. Strives hard as one rarely
(never) sees a judgment to deter such acts. When murder trials can take a life
time of the convict, hoping for rape trails faster, is a distant dream. In a country
where the Central Bureau of Investigation Director, Ranjit Sinha,
comments on betting to, “when rape is inevitable enjoy it”. So when you have a
head of the investigation agency of the country making such a statement, what
justice can one expect?
All rapes
makes news for few days and then is forgotten till another rape shakes the
nation. The even more shocking aspect of the state of Indian judiciary is
stringent laws were brought in only last year after the brutal gang rape of a
woman on a bus in New Delhi in December 2012. This only proves India awoke to
rapes in the country after 65 years of its getting Independence. Prior to that
it seems rape was not a crime. So if this case of sexual assault is handed to
the CBI, the head of the agency may question the victim, and pronounce her
guilty as she did not enjoy it, and warn the accused Tarun Tejpal to improve on
his performance going forward.
News in
India is nothing but ‘yellow journalism’. It is no longer news but views. It is
no longer reporting news but making news. It is no longer informing news but
breaking views. It would be just a matter of time, when Indians would rather
prefer to read fake news than allegedly real news. Anyways there is site
reporting fake news http://fakenewsindia.com/
which through its satire ends up reporting real news. India is the second most
dangerous country for journalists in 2013, with number one being Syria. Can
understand Syria as there is a war, but what about India? Are we in a state of
war? Think of it, the average daily life of an Indian is nothing short of
living in a ‘war like zone’ where he really does not know if he would come home
alive or for a lady, with her dignity intact. People are dying travelling to
work, dying with contaminated food, dying in riots, dying with spurious
medication or dying due to non-availability of it, and in the process the ones
that are alive, find it hard to believe they are.
The sexual
assault on the lady journalist of ‘Tehelka’, when done by Tarun Tejpal, the
founder of the publication she worked got the nation shocked. Not being safe at
a work place or with one’s superiors? What safety can be achieved on the
streets, when where one is supposed to feel most safe is highly vulnerable? This
happens everywhere in India in most workplaces to the extent even in homes
where girls are sexually exploited. Rapes on the streets make news, but most
others don’t. They don’t even get reported to the police due to the stigma the
victim would have to undergo at a Police Station. The irony is even if one
gathers courage to report it, many times the Police do not want to report it.
So where does one go to seek justice? If a new political party like ‘Aam Admi
Party’ wants to make a change, suddenly all their senior party members are
found guilty of some crime or faults. How come this only comes to light when
they want to form a political party? Does an average Indian need to form a
political party or be a part of it to make change or feel safe in India?
Recently
‘Aam Admi Party’ members were found to be collecting funds illegally, and all
the leading media in the country covered it as if it was the only crime that
ever happened in the nation. Later it was proven that the material used to
prove the crime, was doctored. The question here is, do all other main stream
political parties in India collect their funds are through legal channels?
This only
goes to prove media covers anything that can make news, irrespective, it is
real or not? Media is using and abusing its powers for its own gains only.
Similarly Tarun Tejpal thought ‘his penis mightier than the sword’ of
judiciary, and would get away with sexual assault. Sorry for the typo error, it
should have read ‘his
pen is mightier than the sword’.
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Rhetoric, but not wholly agreeable. True, we have woken up to the brutality of such heinous act only recently but to say we are immune to it is wrong. For a few bad men we cannot call the entire nation vice!
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