At a time when the elderly are beginning to wake up, decent young
ones are fast asleep and indecent ones like me are busy watching
american tv series (this Orange is the New Black is engrossing; I mean
what more do you want, lots of hot girls locked away together in a
prison with just a couple of obnoxious men to trouble the screen space);
me I am busy munching on some snacks my mother so lovingly leaves on my
table even before I reach home on a vacation and then I make the
cardinal mistake of watching news and listen to Lennon sing about unity
and peace thereafter.
I mean that guy was seriously out of his mind, he sang about no religion, about peace. Can you imagine the bloody guts on him? He did visit India didn't he? Even then! He should have known that we have to preserve our culture at all costs. A culture that has for years worshipped women as goddesses with great fervor at pandals and then has burnt them because the father of their daughter-in-law/wife was not grateful enough to pay dowry for accepting his daughter (I wonder though with the messed up sex ratio till when will this continue, call it poetic justice if you will!). These modern city girls are the worst, they wear skirts and short pants (hot pants I believe is the right word) and then they visit pubs and lounges and invite men to rape them. How dare they? Don't they know that this countrys' eminent politicians who are also the custodians of our morals by the way, allow our macho boys to make some mistakes in their 'ladakpan'. And then to make matter worse they even use smartphones, just to think of their audacity! Don't they know that playing candy crush too is illicit immoral behaviour which might force unwilling men to rape them. Utter disregard for our culture and history, huh!. I mean otherwise we men are very well behaved but the moment we see a smartphone and a jeans/skirt/pants/anything other than saree, kurta, burqa; we feel its our moral duty to teach these girls a lesson they won't forget.
A gentleman from Karnataka (who might have been a part of the current central government but this stupidly immoral social media made the party in power run away from him) was the first to join the clamour asking girls to behave lest they should be punished and he did punish them some years ago, beating women for visting pubs. He was right, of course, visiting pubs and consuming alcohol has culturally been the birthright of men. Aren't men in their machismo culturally supposed to drink and then wreak havoc upon women. Hell we even take time out of killing men of other religion in times of riot to rape women. It is our moral duty to correct these wayward women. Maybe that is why we won't even put legalising prostitution on discussion table so that the unsatisfied libido can get a fix, at a price though. I mean why should we, there are so many women walking alone, take your pick! Don't legalise it right away but have the damn guts to discuss it at least.
I wonder though what dress was that six year old wearing and what smartphone was she carrying before she was raped in her school and in a city like Bangalore no less. Which pub did she go to?
It is okay if our streets are full of lecherous hoodlums and homes full of chauvinistic men but our movies should have fully draped women lest they should invigorate, us testosterone charged lewd men to gawk and rape women. It is okay if school girls are raped in broad daylight but our movies should not offend our so called moral and religious custodians. And the cherry on the cake is that, it is okay to rape women if you are a juvenile. Of course since you were below 18 years of age you did not realise that you were raping her; you thought you were playing 'ghar - ghar'. You can get away with rape if you are less than 18 years of age but you cannot drink alcohol in the capital until you are 25. Incredible India! Whatever satisfies our big bloated moral ego.
It is a country where girls do not prefer the luxury of cabs even if they can afford it, they might as well take more time and cramp in a bus because they are too damn afraid. It is a country where a leading politician can declare that rape is a mistake of 'ladakpan' and should be forgiven thinking it will strenthen the vote bank. Aptly his state leads the crime charts and I am sure he and his son lead the money charts.
I am not a feminist because I hate that crap Shobha De writes. I come across as the eternal cynic, maybe I am. Though I am definitely morally wrong; because I believe if I can wear anything I want so can the opposite sex (don't get ideas I dress quite conservatively), if I am allowed to smoke and drink so are they and if I am allowed to use a bloody smartphone so are they. Whats with the smartphone thing anyway; I am seriously trying to figure out how this connects to crime on women, I simply can't fathom even after watching Arnab Goswami in his full rage lambasting one politician after another. I believe we censor too much, even though our conscience and values are gutted to the core. I am a Hindu with an unfulfilled but an insatiable desire to learn Urdu and since childhood I have loved the mutton cooked on Bakra-eid. I believe in kneeling down at Hazratbal mosque and be mesmerized by its beauty along with the trekking for the blessings of Vaishno Devi , I believe in offering my prayer at Ajmer-Sharif along with visting temples at Pushkar, enjoying the serenity of Churches everywhere and its not just me so do the people around me. I am part of a generation which might visit the pubs more but does not give a shit about the religion and caste of the person across the table and still has faith in God, a generation corrupted by movies and TV Series which might visit the temples/mosques/churches less but their libido is not charged on the call of a religious leader and they do not have an adrenalin rush to kill because the name of the person indicated a different religion. And hence I am not alone when I humm the Lennon song
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one."
Till that day I prefer to be morally wrong or shall I say Immorally Correct!
I mean that guy was seriously out of his mind, he sang about no religion, about peace. Can you imagine the bloody guts on him? He did visit India didn't he? Even then! He should have known that we have to preserve our culture at all costs. A culture that has for years worshipped women as goddesses with great fervor at pandals and then has burnt them because the father of their daughter-in-law/wife was not grateful enough to pay dowry for accepting his daughter (I wonder though with the messed up sex ratio till when will this continue, call it poetic justice if you will!). These modern city girls are the worst, they wear skirts and short pants (hot pants I believe is the right word) and then they visit pubs and lounges and invite men to rape them. How dare they? Don't they know that this countrys' eminent politicians who are also the custodians of our morals by the way, allow our macho boys to make some mistakes in their 'ladakpan'. And then to make matter worse they even use smartphones, just to think of their audacity! Don't they know that playing candy crush too is illicit immoral behaviour which might force unwilling men to rape them. Utter disregard for our culture and history, huh!. I mean otherwise we men are very well behaved but the moment we see a smartphone and a jeans/skirt/pants/anything other than saree, kurta, burqa; we feel its our moral duty to teach these girls a lesson they won't forget.
A gentleman from Karnataka (who might have been a part of the current central government but this stupidly immoral social media made the party in power run away from him) was the first to join the clamour asking girls to behave lest they should be punished and he did punish them some years ago, beating women for visting pubs. He was right, of course, visiting pubs and consuming alcohol has culturally been the birthright of men. Aren't men in their machismo culturally supposed to drink and then wreak havoc upon women. Hell we even take time out of killing men of other religion in times of riot to rape women. It is our moral duty to correct these wayward women. Maybe that is why we won't even put legalising prostitution on discussion table so that the unsatisfied libido can get a fix, at a price though. I mean why should we, there are so many women walking alone, take your pick! Don't legalise it right away but have the damn guts to discuss it at least.
I wonder though what dress was that six year old wearing and what smartphone was she carrying before she was raped in her school and in a city like Bangalore no less. Which pub did she go to?
It is okay if our streets are full of lecherous hoodlums and homes full of chauvinistic men but our movies should have fully draped women lest they should invigorate, us testosterone charged lewd men to gawk and rape women. It is okay if school girls are raped in broad daylight but our movies should not offend our so called moral and religious custodians. And the cherry on the cake is that, it is okay to rape women if you are a juvenile. Of course since you were below 18 years of age you did not realise that you were raping her; you thought you were playing 'ghar - ghar'. You can get away with rape if you are less than 18 years of age but you cannot drink alcohol in the capital until you are 25. Incredible India! Whatever satisfies our big bloated moral ego.
It is a country where girls do not prefer the luxury of cabs even if they can afford it, they might as well take more time and cramp in a bus because they are too damn afraid. It is a country where a leading politician can declare that rape is a mistake of 'ladakpan' and should be forgiven thinking it will strenthen the vote bank. Aptly his state leads the crime charts and I am sure he and his son lead the money charts.
I am not a feminist because I hate that crap Shobha De writes. I come across as the eternal cynic, maybe I am. Though I am definitely morally wrong; because I believe if I can wear anything I want so can the opposite sex (don't get ideas I dress quite conservatively), if I am allowed to smoke and drink so are they and if I am allowed to use a bloody smartphone so are they. Whats with the smartphone thing anyway; I am seriously trying to figure out how this connects to crime on women, I simply can't fathom even after watching Arnab Goswami in his full rage lambasting one politician after another. I believe we censor too much, even though our conscience and values are gutted to the core. I am a Hindu with an unfulfilled but an insatiable desire to learn Urdu and since childhood I have loved the mutton cooked on Bakra-eid. I believe in kneeling down at Hazratbal mosque and be mesmerized by its beauty along with the trekking for the blessings of Vaishno Devi , I believe in offering my prayer at Ajmer-Sharif along with visting temples at Pushkar, enjoying the serenity of Churches everywhere and its not just me so do the people around me. I am part of a generation which might visit the pubs more but does not give a shit about the religion and caste of the person across the table and still has faith in God, a generation corrupted by movies and TV Series which might visit the temples/mosques/churches less but their libido is not charged on the call of a religious leader and they do not have an adrenalin rush to kill because the name of the person indicated a different religion. And hence I am not alone when I humm the Lennon song
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one."
Till that day I prefer to be morally wrong or shall I say Immorally Correct!
