This is the longest night! Our
conscience frozen into an inhuman hibernation! In the frigid gloom, the devils
shed bloods on the white snowy sheet of our social fabric. A painful cry echoes
through the land of lifeless corpses! It pulls the dead bodies out of their
quilted, warm graves and they swarm around the tombstone of the higher mortals’
graves, crying and shouting to awake them out of their perennial, impotent sleep!
Cold-smitten dates of the third
week of December raise some hopes! Anna Movement, Kejriwal Movement, Ramdev
Movement, all had a leader fighting for a common cause. The people gathered on
Rajpath to march towards Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament House to shout at
their indifferent red stone walls are not doing it for glory. They are driven
by a mammoth shame; a collective feeling of guilt; they need an outlet to shed
their share in the tragedy. These young boys and girls are no followers of some
social-cause-conscious individual. Each and every individual braving cold water
and police batons is a leader to himself/herself! It is not for media; it is
not for a long plan of action for a dream future; it is no systematized stage
show! It is simple; it is from heart; it is fought with a faceless, selfless
bravery! These are bleeding hearts; carrying over the plight and pain of the
girl fighting for life in hospital.Thousands shout her plight; thousands cry
for justice. Caught in the jaws of death; her life torn apart by the very hands
that could well have been solacing and brotherly, if the devil inside the
perpetrators would have been aware of the word ‘sister’—she now has a reason to
get a forgiving smile for these thousands of brothers and sisters crying for
justice from her side.
Thousands of young people throng
the area around the citadel of power. Each and every member is a pioneer, a
leader! It is a movement started by the leaders. Busy in petty house-hold
chores, and guiltily watching it on TV, even in my most Hind-movie-driven
heroic fancy, I could not visualize myself more than pissing on Parliament
after somehow managing to sneak through the barricade. The beholder of such
impotent law that allows such criminal acts against women, and that too one
after another, in just its near vicinity does not deserve better treatment.
Forget about law, justice and
government. People are foremost. A cause has to first jolt the courts in their
hearts. We are responsible for this nasty assault on humanity. We have allowed
things to culminate in such an inhuman tragedy. Thousands of cases of
molestation in varying degrees pass on a daily basis as routine things. People
allow them to occur; criminal apathy! This pandering of the smaller evils by
the court of conscience in the thousands of spectators on the footbaths,
crowded buses and metros and bazaars just leads to criminal loopholes at the
administrative levels. First thing: If you are a good human being and
theoretically shout ‘Capital Punishment to the rapists!’, you have to get
eligibility to shout this slogan by at least taking a vow to interfere when
some petty male molests a girl or women in any form or degree before your eyes.
If the courts of humanity inside us will not allow thousands of such indecent
things on a daily basis, the higher courts and administration will also not
spare the evil-doers at bigger chronic stages.
We are the law! We hold the court
inside our civilized hearts. Leave the bigger crime acts to judiciary. We, as
the carriers of that tiny court of humanity inside us, can well afford to
dispense justice from our own ends in street-side regular cases of violations
of norms against women, by promptly condemning the criminal for the deed, to be
followed by a few hard slaps to serve the cause of justice. The case has to be
closed then and there and spare the over-burdened judiciary to continue
settling thousands of self-evident ghastly crime acts that are pending for
decades.
The latest incidence is not in
abstract. It has come to hit the last nail in the coffin of women plight in
Delhi to seal its fate to suffer and survive in fear and insecurity even in
broad day light. Hundreds of such cases and incidences have been tonking at the
courts of our conscience and the thick walls of governance for decades. It has
been caused by a bigger criminal act by all: individuals, society, government,
police and judiciary. Delhi is being run by an experienced old lady for a
decade and half. If the intensity of crime against women is getting sharper
teeth to tear the moral fabric to pieces, then shame should be painted on Her
face if ever her inner voice gives her some credit for being a successful
administrator! India is being handled in proxy by another lady for a decade. It
is high time that she feels finally like a woman and not like a mechanically
principled Nehru family princess thinking 365x24x7 just about retaining the
political clout of the family to ultimately install Yuvraj as the King of
India.
This country is not short of
those bookish theologians who will drag you into the psychology of crime to
prove the ineffectivity of capital punishment. To be hell with such idiots and
put their analytical brains in boiling oil and feed to the rapists in jails who
fatten themselves on our public money. Capital punishment serves its purpose.
Hang these six bastards and then see the crime graph in Delhi.
There are undercurrents of good
and bad in almost all human beings. We came out of the caves to civilize
ourselves by taming the beast by putting up chains of deterrence in various
forms: social conventions, ethics, family relationships, beliefs and lawful
punishment. When they started wagging tongues against capital punishment, it
was under the blind belief that we have become civilized sufficiently to
self-contain the bad in us to a degree that would not allow us to get into
heinous manifestations of crime. But dears, these fundas fail miserably in the
devils still lurking around in stinking corridors of sub-human existence
interspersed with the cleaner faces of our society. Socio-economic development
in these grey areas is a generational shift and the theoreticians can dump
their capital and jobs and work in these slums to change their surroundings and
material possessions and then later on clean the shit of their brains. We but
in the cleaner by lanes of society want safety for our law-abiding generation
by having this feeling that there is capital punishment against the crime that
is tormenting the body and souls of almost all the women and girls in Delhi.
Hang
them please!
