Musings of 1084

Delhi has got used to shocking news nowadays. Hence it wasn’t of much shocking to hear one Pushpam Kumar Sinha, a PhD scholar working on wave mechanics at IIT Delhi assaulted, strangled and burnt 19-year old Manipuri girl. Indian english media raised its eye brows exclaiming at an IIT-ian turning in to a cold blooded murderer. So how come a ‘gentle genius’, that’s what his relatives say, turned in to a killer overnight? The events that led to fateful night seem to be simple.

Police said that on Saturday around 4.30 p.m., Pushpam Kumar Sinha found that the girl was alone in the house. He entered the kitchen where she was and made advances towards her. When she protested, he got scared and strangled her to death.

“He feared that the girl would report about him to others and he would face police action. He then torched her face. But because of the fire, her torso also suffered 30 percent burn injuries” Dhaliwal said.

Earlier, the police thought it was a case of accidental fire. However, the post-mortem examination revealed that she did not die of burns but had been strangulated.

Dhaliwal said the girl`s sister Timila, who works in a Delhi restaurant, had during the investigations raised suspicions about her next door neighbour Sinha.

“Timila said he was trying to befriend her sister but there was never any occasion when she had made any complaint about him. On Diwali they had burnt fire crackers together, so he mistakenly thought that she was attracted to him” Dhaliwal said.

The usual thinking of the Indian male is Hasi toh Phasi!(if she laughs, then she is trapped) Police now claims he had mental disorders as if they hold degrees in psychology. we are not sure of this Obsessive Compulsive Disorder theory will really help or harm the accused. But whatever the name you put it, the otherwise enviable IITian, educated urban younster is yet another ‘victim’ of the same Hasi toh Phasi syndrome. This incident also proves that the education without imparting basic human values is futile.

The growing trend of crass consumerist culture which is shaping the urban male in to a robot who only gets excited to gizmos, girls and cash and the commodification of women by the Indian cinema which is being aired 24/7 from all the directions are the social causes for all these kind of unimaginable, inhuman excesses. There are more Sinhas and Shiney ahujas amongst us who are continuing to be ‘gentle genius’ for the simple fact that they haven’t got the opportunity.

Other than the sexual aspect, the racist aspect also plays a deep role in this episode. Indians who raise hue and cry over Australian racism are in reality very good at perpetrating racism on their fellow country men and women. Leave the centuries and centuries of caste oppression and untouchability system which still continues, the racism and bias towards north eastern people in recent times are reaching its heights.

A survey by the centre shows that 86% (or 86,000) of people from the northeast in Delhi face some or the other sort of discrimination on a daily basis. Sixteen severe cases of molestation, rape and brutality against people from the northeast were recorded in Delhi this year. Four of these took place in the last fortnight. They include Hongray’s murder, molestation of an Arunachal girl by school boys, molestation of a Naga girl and beating up of a Naga couple.

Kamakshi Sinha of Assam, who is pursuing an undergraduate course in DU, says, “The police circular is just a piece of paper. People call us ‘Chinky’ and other names, but the police laugh when we go and complain”Most girls from the region are even scared of approaching the police. “Many cases have come up where the police do not respond to our cries. We are treated like outcasts” said Priyadarshini Nath, a DU student.

“We are often blamed for dressing provocatively and inviting trouble. A week ago, some men punctured the car tyres of a Naga couple and beat them up. The police blamed the Naga couple for the incident” Nath said. For safety’s sake they live together in groups. But they are called names when they venture out. “People view us as objects of sexual abuse only because we look different and wear western outfits. It’s like our community versus theirs and we feel we can never intermingle” Kamakshi said.

Agatha Sangma, Minister of State for Rural Developmet and the youngest member of parliament had say with despair, that incidents of women from the north east being molested in Delhi has been quite rampant. The situation in Delhi has been disgraceful, she said.

Manipur and other north eastern states are burning for the last 50 years for the ‘crime’ of raising self determination demands. Indian state is crushing the lives of Manipuris with an iron fist saying they shouldn’t ask for secession at one hand. On the other hand, proud indians are mocking at them and at times murdering them calling Chinkies. Wonder what’s the option left?

This sad episode reminds me the forgotten Irom Sharmila whose hungerfast is entering the tenth year, yes it’s not a joke, the tenth year, this november. One more corpse from delhi is certainly reiterating with force, the cause for which Irom fights for.

Image Courtesy: The Hindu

Beyond all the uproar of Kasab’s four hour long confession, there is a small incident which couldn’t find much importance.

The court took exception to a remark made in jest by Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. In a jibe at Ajmal’s lawyer Abbas Kazmi, Mr. Nikam said Ajmal had not mentioned “Abu Abbas Kazmi.” The court immediately asked Mr. Nikam to withdraw his comment.

What made the well learned lawyer to pass such a demeaning remark? After all, Kazmi is performing his duty just as the over excited Nikam. Was that a simple joke? Didn’t we saw how humor started with Anjali waghmare forcing her to quit? Some time later, Kazmi was ousted by Islam Gumkhana for the ‘kaffir’ act. We heard the bar council resolutions in various north indian courts that no lawyer should defend ‘Terrorists’. We saw how some lawyers were thrashed inside court premises for the ‘crime’.

Things are moving in that direction. Like how an ‘ordinary middle class man’ want to pronounce sentences in ‘Wednesday’, a hindi movie, instead of wasting time. The hate and ultra patriotism is in air.. ‘Sunny Deols’ everywhere, intolerant towards all ‘traitors’. Rules are pretty simple. Just be with us. Don’t use words like democracy, rule of law etc., We will joke. We will ridicule. At times things may go out of control. We can’t help.

WISDOM 0F THE EAST posted the below piece of  ‘wise information’ in his/her website.

Details about anti- Hindu media

All the efforts and conspiracies are part of a concerted attack on Hindu interests and institutions, organized by Christian groups and supported by the Congress. People, including those who should know better, ridiculed me when I said a couple of years ago that the Church with its peculiar historical sense see Sonia Gandhi in the same light as Constantine, who by his hospitality to early Christianity to take over the Roman Empire. To those who know history, the present conflict has an eerie similarity to the 4th century. Christians were less than 4 percent in the Roman Empire, but they managed to seize control.

Christian-Congress assault on the Bharatiya media and Hindu institutions

The most extraordinary item is F) The Hindu: A English Daily, started over125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland.

To this I would add the Malayala Monorama Group controlled by the Matthew family of Kochi, Kerala.

Which Media is controlled by whom and how does it derive benefit Which Media is controlled by whom and how does it derive benefit:

(A) NDTV: Funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan. NDTV’s CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, Gen Secy of Communist party of India.Brinda Karat’s sister Radhika Roy is married to Prannoy Roy. Also Prannoy Roy is a cousin of the prominent media personality Arundhati Roy

(B) CNN-IBN: 100% Funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The Church annually allocates 800 Million Dollars for Promotion of its channel. Its Indian Head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.

(C) TIMES GROUP LIST: TIMES OF INDIA, MID-DAY, NAV-BHARTH TIMES, STARDUST, FEMINA, VIJAYA TIMES, VIJAYA KARNATAKA, TIMES NOW (24 hr News Channel) & many more.

Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 80% of the Funding is done by “WORLD CHRISTIAN COUNCIL”, and balance 20% is equally shared by an Englishman and an Italian. The Italian ROBERTIO MINDO IS A CLOSE RELATIVE OF SONIA GANDHI.

(D) STAR TV: Is run by an Australian, who is supported by St.Peters Pontificia l Church Melbourne.

(E) HINDUSTAN TIMES: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collobration with Times Group.

(F) The Hindu: A English Daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland.

(G) INDIAN EXPRESS: DIVDED INTO TWO GROUPS. THE INDIAN EXPRESS & NEW INDIAN EXPRESS (SOUTHERN EDITION). Acts Ministries has major stake in the Indian express and later is still with the Indian counterpart.

(H) EENADU : Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao.

(I) Andhra Jyothi : The MUSLIM PARTY OF HYDERABAD known as (MIM) along with a Congress Minister Has purchased this Telgu daily very recently.

(J) The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India

(K) Kairali TV: It is Controlled by Communist party of India (Marxist)

(L) Mathrabhoomi: leaders of Muslim league and Communist Leaders have major investment.

(M) Asian Age & Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J.AKBAR

Source:http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/124012007.htm

P.S.- Dr. Prannoy L. Roy, an Indian media figure,is married to Radhika Roy (sister of Brinda Karat,CPI-M), and is the Director of NDTV. Prannoy L. Roy is also the cousin of award winning novelist and activist Arundhati Roy. Arundhati’s real name is Suzanna Arundhati Roy who was born to a Syrian Christian mother, Mary Roy. Explore Arundhati’s Info @ http://arundhati-roy-web.blogspot.com/2007/11/arundhati-roy-as-in-wiki.html

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One Mr.wanderer has bombarded this piece of shit with his arguments in a google group called, soc.culture.indian which follows below.

It will if you continue to flood Usenet with the utterly fabricated bullshit that the saffron nitwits have used to carpet-bomb the internet!

NDTV is a publicly traded company with majority ownership by Prannoy and Radhika Roy. There is no “Gospels of Charity in Spain”, the purported “funder” of NDTV. Prannoy Roy is a neo-conservative, which is about as far from being communist or supporting communism that I could imagine. I would be delighted if you could provide me with verifiable information on this ethereal organization, “Gospels of Charity in Spain”, and its alleged links to NDTV.

CNN is owned by Time-Warner, a publicly traded company. IBN is an Indian  publicly traded company. It’s parent company is Network 18, a media group owned 51% by Raghav Bahl. Rajdeep Sardesai is a Saraswat Brahmin and the son of Test cricketer Dilip Sardesai. The Southern Baptists have no connection to CNN-IBN or to Network 18 that I could find. I would be delighted if you could provide me with verifiable information on this ethereal connection and/or evidence to the effect that Raghav Bahl, Rajdeep Sardesai et al are Christians.

Bennett & Coleman is a publicly traded company majority owned by the Sahu Jain Group. “WORLD CHRISTIAN COUNCIL” has no involvement with it, and neither do the mystery Englishman or the mystery Italian. I would be delighted if you could provide me with verifiable information that the Sahu Jain group is a family of Christians/Catholics and that this “WORLD CHRISTIAN COUNCIL” is in cahoots with them.

Star TV is owned by News Corp, which was founded by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch is an American citizen, born in Australia to a Presbyterian family, and therefore not a member of a Catholic church. I would be delighted if you could provide me with verifiable information that Rupert Murdoch is or ever was a member of “St. Peters Pontificial Church Melbourne.”

Neither the large stakeholders of the Times Group nor the Birla Group are Christians, as far as I have been able to ascertain. I would be delighted if you could provide me with verifiable information that the Birlas or the Jains are in fact Christians.

There is no “Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland.” Also, please explain
what the Joshua Society does, and who its office-bearers are. Ownership of The Hindu, as far as I have been able to ascertain, remains with the family of the late Kasturi Ranga Iyengar. I would be delighted if you could provide me with verifiable information that the descendants and controlling heirs of Kasturi Ranga Iyengar are indeed Christians, and also verifiable information pertaining to the “Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland.”

Failing to provide verifiable information as above, I would expect you
to apologize for spreading untruths, falsehoods, lies and slander.

Arnab Goswami: Self-confessed rat

image courtesy: indiantelevision.com

We may try to understand, or refuse to do so, contributing to the likelihood that much worse lies ahead.

-Noam Chomsky in a short article that he wrote immediately after 9/11, on 12th September 2001

…Arnab Goswami, anchorperson of Times Now television, has stepped up to the plate. He has taken to naming, demonizing, and openly heckling people who have dared to question the integrity of the police and armed forces.

My name and the name of the well-known lawyer Prashant Bhushan have come up several times. At one point, while interviewing a former police officer, Arnab Goswami turned to the camera: “Arundhati Roy and Prashant Bhushan,” he said. “I hope you are watching this. We think you are disgusting.”

-Arundhati Roy, The Monster In The Mirror

What a simple one liner that was? We think you are disgusting. Arundhati Roy continues what does it mean.

For a TV anchor to do this in an atmosphere as charged and as frenzied as the one that prevails today amounts to incitement, as well as threat, and would probably in different circumstances have cost a journalist his or her job.

So, according to a man aspiring to be the next prime minister of India, and another who is the public face of a mainstream TV channel, citizens have no right to raise questions about the police.

But you know what, if am gonna forward Roy’s Article, i doubt how many will actually read. They will complain about its length. Arundhati Roy had to spent 10 long painstaking years in Bastis and streets of this country from sardar sarovar dam villages to nandigram to kashmir, where television cameras do not enter, to sense the pulse of the vast, voiceless people and come up with her opinions in long essays which is a mix of history and literary quality. If am not exaggareting, quite equal to volumes of marxian polemics.

But how easy it is for Arnab? We think you are disgusting.
why the contradiction?
why truth looks long and tiresome while lie is always short and easy to understand?

With the growing jingoistic hysteria and Times now acting like the mouthpiece of Organiser (Official Magazine of RSS), the atmospehere tells you something. It’s not going to be easy to speak the truth. It will cost you. not only that. Very less are willing to hear. assimilate and understand.

As you can see in the comments section to the Roy’s Article, many have angrily reverted back shouting, “What is your point finally Madam?” and in similar fashions. Her remarks are not only confusing but disturbing to them. They are not able to stand trouble makers like Roy and Prashant Bhushan, who has also written a magnificent yet laborious long piece. The same irate voices echo from the Television sets of Times now and from the editors table of India Today Magazine who cry ” Why and How we must fight now. “

Now this is where Fascism starts in its full phase.
The Voice is intolerant, loud and clear.
“Enough is enough.
Stop your non-sense. What I speak is the only truth.”
Convenient.
Simple.
easy to understand.
No Explanation Business.
We think you are disgusting.
But dudes, It happens. Truth is tough to understand and accept. There is no other choice.

I have given the Links of the Articles of Roy, Bhushan and Annie zaidi(yet another stinking person) below. pls spend time on reading them and ponder. The Links are dedicated to one and only self-styled au savior of this country, Mr. Arnab Goswami.

• The Monster In The Mirror
• Lessons From The Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
• Two points of madness

Yesterday got a chance to watch ‘Shaurya’ (Courage), a Hindi Movie by Samar Khan. It seems to have got released on April 2008, and worth to mention, a disaster in Box office. This unnoticed movie has only got mention about the alleged plagiarism with ‘A Few Good men’ in web and it’s surprising to see no other analysis on its subject. ApunKaChoice.com is only worried about the plagiarism and puts the tag as fairly watchable without any justification.

Samar Khan is not Manirathnam to hide the inspiration of the movie. He puts it quite honestly in his interview to NDTV.

Yes, the skeleton of the film is A Few Good Men. But I’ve changed everything around. Where in A Few Good Men did they talk about Kashmir and the Muslim identity? It’s like comparing Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. They’re both about the end of the world. But so different.

I think what he is says perfectly fine. Not only the plot but the treatment and the message are different and the movie sounds truely indigenous and creative. I would say the allegation is primarily motivated to do away the disturbing questions raised by the movie. Even if the movie is a copy of something it is thousand times better than the so-called originals of Bansalis, Johars and Chopras. The plot of the movie as given in imdb follows.

Shaurya, revolves around the lives of two close friends, both lawyers in the Indian army.Maj. Siddhant Chaudhary(Rahul Bose) and Maj. Akash Kapoor(Javed Jaffrey).Siddhant is defending and Aakash is prosecuting a soldier,convicted for killing his commanding officer.An unwilling participant at first, Siddhant only begins to take his role as a defence lawyer seriously when he meets a spirited journalist Kavya who makes him realize that the case is not as simple as it seems and that the life of the soldier lies in his hands.

In the course of his investigation Siddhant encounters Brigadier Pratap(Kay Kay Menon), a highly decorated officer with a narcissistic sense of power and fixed ideas.The convicted soldier, Javed Khan, remains mysteriously silent while incidents and testimonials pile up against him. Making a just resolution to the case seems unattainable.

When Siddhant unravels the mystery behind the silence of Javed Khan, he finds that Javed is not a murderer but the saviour of a 6 year old girl from the hands of a monstrous Army Officer Rathore who fell to the bullet of Javed. What follows is a crusade for truth which demands courage and getting the real culprits punished. But it confines within the limits of court hall. In a subtle manner, for the first time in silver screen, the movie underlines the atrocities of Indian army in Kashmir and the arrogant justifications of officers like Brigadier Prathap. The composed argument of the movie on the prejudice against Muslims and the credibility of the so-called fight against Terrorism in Kashmir discomforts ordinary Hindi movie viewer who is showered with Jingoistic filth like Gadar etc.,

It is a well-known, implicit rule that Indian army seldom admits Muslims in its ranks. we often hear Sangh enthusiasts proudly proclaiming it. There comes the the last lengthy dialogue of Kay Kay Menon or the ‘Hitlerian’ speech, which brings the Col.Purohit of Malegaon blasts in flesh and blood to your eyes. Kay Kay Menon reminds Daniel Day lewis with his acting par excellence and at times hijacks the entire movie with his strong persona. I am not convinced with the portrayal of Siddanth as all the innocence that are shown very well gets washed away in the training years itself but that is negligible . But the story has a lacunae as its narrative grows on expected lines which makes it seem lagging at times but it has got to do with form and not the content. These technical black spots cannot be the reason to neglect the strong, loud and clear political message of the movie.

Samar Khan cries out his soul in the Interview, which is the message that echoes in the movie and shocks the Hindutva conditioned psyche.

We don’t confront anything that’s uncomfortable. But the fact of the matter is that the Indian Muslim is living in a very real crisis. What you see in Shaurya is born of a very private anguish. It may not be on an obvious level. But it’s there. If I praise the performance of the Pakistani cricket team, a look would pass around the room. But if anyone else said it, it wouldn’t be noticed. I don’t want to be known as a Muslim. I want to be known as an Indian. Unfortunately in these troubled times that we live in, it’s become embarrassing to be Samar Khan. Why is it that a Khan is asked to prove his patriotism in this country while a Jha is not? Why do I’ve to wear my patriotism on the sleeve? Isn’t it enough that I am an Indian? These are questions that have always troubled me.

The accused Javed khan in the movie puts the above in one line to Siddhanth.

“Sir, mein apne naam ka karz chuka raha hun”(I am paying the price of my name.)

We are happy to see that atleast in Hindi film industry such bold measures are in shape which tell the stories revolving around muslims as lead characters and deals with views contrary to the official line. Thanks to my bong friend who recommended the movie or else watching the poster, i would have simply skipped it as yet another Military melodrama. Samar ends his Interview with these lines.

I honestly feel if we keep closing our eyes to what happened to Gujarat then the Muslims in India will end up getting a dose of Nazism. Yes, Shaurya has made me a more politically aware creature.

We are ended up with doses and doses of Nazism and Counter-Nazism. And yes, Shaurya definitely helps us too to be more politically aware.