Sunday, January 25, 2009

A Blot On Humanity: Attack On Women In A Mangalore Pub

Minutes ago at about 455 pm IST, happened to see this unfortunate footage of horror on TIMES NOW where in a group 40 men enters a Pub in Mangalore assaulting unsuspecting visitors, comprising mostly women. Absolutely a disgusting incident indeed. As today being Sunday and tomorrow Republic Day here in India, I was in a bit of holiday mood when suddenly exasperated by this news on TV. Sadly feeling highly helpless for not in the power to bring those guilty behind bars and punish as severely as they could remember until they are alive.
Just can't tolerate these shenanigans anymore...Justice must prevail to innocent men, women and also to pub employees as few hooligans calling themselves portrayers of Indian culture have no right what so ever in executing moral policing. Looks like time has come in to ban these outfits, as I do not find any difference between extremists like SIMI supporters, Shiv Sainiks, Raj Thackareys, Sri Ram Sena and rest of the b*******.
It was heartily appalling to see those men with self interested touted religious agendas entrusted with a cultural angle, abuse and perhaps molest women present in the pub. Hey Mangaloreans I know you guys are not bad as those Sri Ram Senaites are making out to be and sending wrong signal to the world, so come and rise above their agendas, close their offices, refuse the social acceptance to them, catch hold of Prasad Attaval (head of Sri Ram Sena) and make him count stars with as stringent punishment as you can, if the law does not take its course quickly enough.
It was more so disgraceful to see one Sri Ram Sena spokesman defending the pub episode on national television as 'these school or college going girls have no right to wear short clothes as an insult to our values', now my question to him and their their demeanor is who on Earth is you think of yourself to execute such barbaric acts of crime with high headedness.
Never dare think of such things in Bangalore and people like me will chop you off your dirty thinking and clear the misnomer in your mind that with few goondas around, forming Sri Ram Senas, you can't win over the values humanity has stood upon. And in this spirit I also urge NCW (National Commission for Women) and National Human Rights Commission to fight until the hooligans are brought to justice. And hey Mangalore Police team, if you have slightest respect for women, the very cause of your life, then act transparently and with your entire mite to make pluralism, secularism and right to freedom a default fundamental commodity to all. If nothing else then at least remember that our Indian constitution stands on the foundation of these pillars.
A word of caution to the rest of India: Be prepared to take on moral policing as and when it appears, as at no point in time we must surrender to their interests, which in all likely cases is not going to be beneficial to our soceity. Be it from Shiv Sainiks, Raj Thackareys or Sri Ram Senas, it does not matter to us anymore.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr Indraneel,

What ever you have said in this is absolutly right........ for your sence, and i also agree that the way Sri Ram Sena has done is not acceptable. But think about the whole nation who treat, respect women as their mother, Sister, wife and even the Mother land. See we cannot accept our women in our country wearing bikini or shorts or whtever.. representing our mother land or...

Indraneel said...

Dear Known Fried,

Thanks for your feedback. Why do our nation seem to think that it is our men who decides what is culture and also what women are expected to wear. From years now bollywood actors have been showing bare chest and none of you seem to make a noise about it, but only when it is about women we have a problem.
It is time for our introspection to understand what is culture, in my view it is up to one individual to decide, ofcourse without sacrificing the interests of the soceity. I know of people (I am sure you know too) who enjoy the luscious appeal adorned by glamourous actresses but when it comes to reality they seem to control the whims and fancies of women. Kindly note that I am in no way debating the merits and demerits of short clothes, what all I am saying is it is a misconception in out male dominated soceity that wearing short clothes or bikins on the beach harms our culture. It is not the women who wear short clothes who spoil our culture but our ill thinking that wearing short clothes spoils the culture which is a biggest blindspot in liberalization. Please do a rethinking Mr Friend.

Anonymous said...

@Anonymous:Why is it that people persist in thinking of a woman in terms of Mother/Sister/Wife/Daughter only? A man is a man in our society but women have no individual identity of their own. Please learn to respect women for their own individual identities. They are individuals in their own right, not just somebody's mother, sister or wife!

@Indraneel: I read about your request for a protest march on another blog. Would you please tell me how many people have agreed to take part and if it is confirmed on Saturday?