Sunday, December 30, 2012

RE: [IAC#RG] PRESS RELEASE. Death of Delhi's innocent gangrape victim.

Dear Ms Mustafa

Thank you. It was nice to read your mail even as it comes at a  very somber turn of events which must shame us as society  . I wonder how you retrieved our mail ID as it is years since I had the pleasure of exchanging views with you . You have been avidly  straightforward  and incisive in your note to Mrs Gandhi . I don’t think anything  can move her . We have been greatly troubled by this incident as the whole nation has been. I have been struggling for answers as the more I saw the tumultus upsurge of anguished  outrage  and response to this  from leaders the more I was struck by the disconnect between the two! I must if I may share my views on this as such matters  are unlikely to be resolved  easily as I am skeptic  of the entire  system  which is deceptive! We are up against a wall .  How do we settle scores with thousands of such cases all over and stem an unstoppable tide!! There have been at least three rapes since in and around Delhi. A girl raped in BJP office yesterday another two elsewhere all in Delhi! We have unleashed primitive instincts by abandoning values to guzzle prosperity the wrong way! An outcome of disabling society into what Tharoor glamorizes as ‘soft power’. We falter and circumvent in pinning down the political class the mother of all evils. This needs change in mind set. Have to break from shackles of the British legacy which has left a cloud of poison dulling our rational senses making us inveterate slaves of their systems, the constitution being their gift. It is creating more problems by shredding social fibre and producing disabilities than providing solutions. Those advocating change through introspection by society are thus on the wrong track knowingly. Change has to come through strong legislated intervention and clamping down on role of money in running our democracy.  

The issue is too deep and all embracing. Protests without demands are purposeless. People are confused what to demand. Mere punishment is incomplete demand. We have no idea what prevails in the country; can’t get this from an academic overview which only helps to brush aside ground realities! You are aware that crime such as rapes and drug are rampant across the northern belt immutably linked to political lifestyle across the nation!! One rape per minute I was told and only 10% get registered ! There is a yawning disconnect between truth/reality   and those addressing such issues who also reserve the power to resolve them!  Nowhere better illustrated than by the political drama being enacted to tide over this embellishing event. What a waxen response by our waxen PM! He acts as a school master would dispense lessons of behavior to his class not spelling out any measures or any action, abdicating from all accountability.  Should have sacked the CM and the Police Commissioner to start with!  There is still no action in Lok Sabha. Even women MPs have not come out united stand with any concrete proposals! Sheer lip service and sham. Many MPs themselves are indictable for similar crimes. Remarkable hypocrisy ingrained in our character.  Delhi is a virtual crime capital infested with not only sex predators but their natural bed fellows the gun totting money churners who fund our paradoxical democracy the Chaddhas and the like archetypical!!  There was no mopping up operation even after the shootout and no one questioned this!! This reflects the climate of order rather disorder in the capital. Why blame ISI for unleashing terrorism when we prepare all the ground for its operators. It doesn’t need super intelligence to comprehend that where people’s power can be ransomed by tender of money people are pawned off to cartels and rogues the State reduced to shackle machinery on pay roll of the money masters! It ceases to exist as glaringly validated by what we are witnessing! It is the nature of democracy we run that is showing its teeth in society demolishing values by bringing lure of power within reach of all and sundry  only qualification being weight of money bags they carry.  There are no taboos in such a society. It cashes on anything that can fetch money, ‘dabbang’ and malevolent role models as popularized by movies where rape is fashionable depiction of manliness eulogizing primitive instincts.  Fostering   liberalism keeps in tandem with   consumer capitalism an illusionary route to modernization!  Unrestrained market culture has no inhibition in exploiting anything for profit.  It is not the dearth of laws but their ransoming to vested interests by its spurious operators that soften up will to apply these, the dearth of fear and ostracism that is cancerous. It is privatization of governance   in pursuit of free market capitalism which takes away moorings of a vulnerable society drifting it to moral decay which is our problem. 

In such an environment broadly the answer is to :-

Set example: The CM and the Police Commissioner should have been relieved .   Current MPs should  disclose their record of similar offences and be disqualified to exercise their vote and be proscribed to hold any public office till a stipulated period.   Similar measures concurrently in state assemblies .

Corrective deterrence   - table a strong bill which will make such offences punishable with life imprisonment.   Make obstruction to recording and concealing of such offences by police an offence. Obligatory profiling of the offender with data made available in public domain. Fast track trial by special courts to be completed within 15 days.  Update outdated Police Act. Clamp down on entertainment media by introducing appropriate curbs .The Chinese have introduced firewalls  to protect children from porn material. Our films are vulgarly depictive and internet abound with provocative material.   

We are a society suffering from character crisis. Unless we get rid of detractors and attend to character building which does not dwell in GDP or free market culture  we are on way to being dismantled as a nation. Such propensity in social behavior is being  induced by extraneous factors also, be warned  .  I am afraid we are drifting towards a state of illusionary euphoria by  planting imported prosperity to dazzle the voter in market of democracy  at great peril to our future . We must seed nationalism which has been destroyed by the manner we slipped into freedom! It’s amazing how this  has left us congenitally  mentally shackled to  our ex masters the way we carry their  imprint with nostalgia and condition our thoughts and actions even glorifying their rule in ceremonies . We must be warned of all sorts of claims that come from political mockups they are all the same . It is this which is  creating more classes and societal disconnect  , detracting and distracting that we seem to be retreating from nation building even seven decades after 47!

regards and a happy and yet more rewarding new year to you both .

thank you and wishing you a happy new year; hopefully we turn a new leaf  to make us worthy of fluttering our national flag now being desecrated by the  hour the year round!

chauhan

maj gen (rtd)

sainiksangh

 

From: indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net [mailto:indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of Seema Mustafa
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 11:12 PM
To: malhotra333@yahoo.co.in
Cc: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] PRESS RELEASE. Death of Delhi's innocent gangrape victim.

 

Just in case this is of interest , and to prove that sections of the media have indeed questioned sonia gandhi

 

Dear Soniaji,

 

This is my second letter to you, and since it already seems like old times I hope you don’t mind the “Soniaji” as against that rather stodgy and formal Mrs Sonia Gandhi? Of course I did not hear from you, and must confess to being a little upset, but your letters to Delhi Chief Minister Ms Sheila Dixit and Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde have again encouraged me. It does seem that we are two of a kind, really rather similar beings, relying on letters to get some kind of action. I had thought you had the power to act, but clearly I was wrong. We are both letter writers. I write to you, and you write to others like Shinde, quite a nice little pact really!

 

This rape is really terrible isn’t it? Delhi and other cities have erupted in anger and shock and unhappiness. The young girl is fighting for her life in hospital, her friend who was beaten with iron rods is completely traumatized, and it was surprising that the Delhi Chief Minister did not rush to the hospital as soon as the news broke, to embrace the victims families, hold their hands and assure them of all help possible. That was the least she could have done. You went, of course two days after the attack, and only when the citizens had come out on the roads reminding your government of its responsibilities. But don’t worry, Soniaji I understand. You are not very comfortable with all this ‘tear wiping’ business, and besides your security chaps do not like you to move around too much; particularly on unfamiliar routes that you rarely take, such as the road to Safdarjang hospital. Also your managers did not fully understand the depths of common sentiments and were hoping that emotions would subside. But when this did not happen they realised it was imperative for you to at least meet the family, and shoot off those two famous letters distancing you from the government as soon as possible. You demanded action from Dixit and Shinde, just like all of us ordinary citizens who have spent all of two days protesting on the streets of Delhi.

 

That was a good move though. The media loved it. Of course there were some party poopers like BJP’s Sushma Swaraj who wondered why you were demanding action when you were in place really to take action. But for purposes such as this, the letters placed you at a certain moral high, and at the same time absolved you of any complicity in the non-functioning of both the Delhi and Union governments. Impressive.

 

You must get a couple of more letters ready for these two. Dixit has not taken your words on board and stood by while the cops used water cannons on students, both boys and girls, demonstrating outside her residence. She refused to come out and speak to them, saying she could meet a delegation but would not speak to these rowdy young people. At least the police commissioner did a little better when he was brought out by women activists from his office to face scores of protestors. Jaya Bachan, MP did a Mulayam Singh on the woman activists and gave him a clean chit, saying he had assured them of stringent action and needed the cooperation of the people.

 

I think these students should have protested outside your door. They should realise where the power lies and I certainly do not like your status being undermined.  I wonder though whether you would have come out to meet them?  Probably not, and I agree you should not be seen as too close to the hoi polloi, and certainly not be seen as meeting these disheveled left wing types (leave them for the Sheila Dixits!). Anyways you have the best chaps taking care of your security, and they would not have allowed these people within kilometers of your residence!

 

Interesting how everyone is talking of the other. Sheila Dixit says she has no control over the police so cannot do anything. But she has control over the transport ministry, right? She could ensure that bus operators follow the rules, that her ministers check these private chaps regularly, and ensure that laws prohibiting tinted glasses for instance are followed, and that drivers are registered and have licenses. Shinde says he will now speak to the Delhi police and see what can be done to make the national capital safer for women. Now? What has he been doing all this while? Must say his statement in Parliament was the usual blah blah. The cops blame the courts for delayed justice. The courts castigate the cops for poor evidence. And in this frolicking merry go round where no one owns up to anything, the rapists and eve teasers and molesters have a field day.

 

I know it is difficult for you in particular to understand what a young girl faces in Delhi. You have never had to walk the streets, or travel by buses, or live in little rooms in shady streets as that is all you can afford. The fear when she is stalked, the visual rape she undergoes every single day, the physical molestation she dreads when she boards a bus, and her helplessness as she knows that she cannot turn to the police as they are the worst of them all. You do not see it as the police turn into servile, crawling human beings in your presence. Don’t get me wrong, I support you in this as our leaders must be leaders, distant and far removed from the crowds. I do not like all this, we are with you, kind of talk. How will we recognise our leaders if they become part of us?

 

Delhi has become the rape capital of India. Women are not safe on the streets, day or night. There are many reasons for this, from the sociological to the political. But the foremost to my feeble mind is bad, corrupt, callous and compromised policing. They just do not do their job. They are linked with the transport mafia, with politicians, with the goons; they take bribes to look the other way; and they do all they can to ensure that laws are flouted every minute of the day. What is worse they do not register cases lest these reflect in the statistics, and women in particular cannot hope for any protection against the beasts on Delhi’s streets. I know this must seem far fetched to you, as you do not even have to call, and the top cops are there willing to fetch and carry. And so your preoccupation is more with who should be Delhi police commissioner, than with ensuring that the officers pull up their socks and work off those stomachs, and I guess they know that when they line up for your attention.  Shinde should do something about this, but then most cops have political patronage and it is difficult to touch the officers for incompetence and corruption.

 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has done his usual disappearing act. He is becoming quite good at it really. Haven’t heard from Rahul baba at all. Hope he is well? Priyankaji is of course busy in your constituency. The government has had little to say on the issue, and suddenly all the Congress spokespersons have also disappeared. The people are talking of capital punishment for rape, but where are the laws for booking eve teasers and molesters? This crime is not even recognised by the police as a crime. Don’t worry I am not even suggesting that you government should do anything about this, that would be too much to ask.

 

I will now rest my pen. More when you next write to the minions in your government.

 

All the very best,

 

A woman.

 

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:48 PM, <malhotra333@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

I will say every one today is acting like a snob.
No one has the guts,even the media to point their finger on the sole person who is responsible for this.Who is in power just to save her black money.
It was said that Sonia Gandhi cried bitterly when a terrorist was killed.
Now is she crying.She is responsible for the murder if this innocent girl because of corruption.
For her vote bank she sold our country.
Another disturbing news today that a guy by the name of Owaisi who said that the 15 cr muslims can easily overpower 100 cr Indians.Its shocking that this guy is roaming free courtsey sonia.
And the media will invite this guy along with majeed,teesta etc for their TRP instead of a common man.
God bless India.
SM

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From: Ved Malik <vedmalik@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:04:29 +0530

Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] PRESS RELEASE. Death of Delhi's innocent gangrape victim.

 

Very disturbing news! Feel very sad for her and her parents. Braveheart! RIP.

 

Public anger should be directed to Electoral, Judicial and Police reforms. 

  • All MPs and MLAs charged for any crime should be thrown out of Parliament/Assemblies. Political parties should be forbidden to give membership to such people.
  • Police Reforms as approved by the Supreme Court in 2006 should be implemented in letter and spirit by all states.
  • Fast courts to deal with crimes against women. 
  • Respect for women in  society should be part of social studies in all schools. No religion or Khap Panchayat should be allowed to pass dictats that violate this spirit.

General (Retd) V P Malik

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM, <drbanvir@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Such people should be hanged in open place in front of public

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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:38:37 +0530

Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] PRESS RELEASE. Death of Delhi's innocent gangrape victim.

 

IAC does not indulge in politics.

This incident has shocked and roused the nation. IAC will pursue it in our own ways once the TV cameras and NGOs have moved onto other issues, and long after all the candles being lit today have flickered out.

Ajay

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:49 PM, <asokemazumder@yahoo.com> wrote:

Come on this is not the time for politics or blame game.
Please practice restraint at least at this hour, please
Regards
AK Mazumder

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From: Mohammed Ghani <mdghani33@yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] PRESS RELEASE. Death of Delhi's innocent gangrape victim.

 

we share your feelings and pray for the departed soul to rest in peace

mdghani

 

 



 

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