The molestation of girls on New Year's Eve in Bangalore has made some ripples in media, social or otherwise. As every Faci-zen (Facebook Citizen) has an opinion about everything from Rocket science to Igneous Rocks, I didn't want to be the one left behind.
In our Metropolitan cities we have two Indias mutually coexisting side by side - one modern and liberal, the other misogynistic and voyeuristic kind. Both have this unwritten rule of sticking to their own territories. But on occasions, this thin viscous line of separation evaporates in the heat of the moment, encroaching into other's private territory.
This happens when both cultures clash, the cusp can be a large gatherings like New Year's eve. A la the warm and cold fronts clash across Jet stream causing Tornadoes, such cultural clashes cause social tremors. The Nirbhaya rape in Delhi and the most recent incident in Bangalore are results of a milieu sitting on a gunpowder keg. All it takes something like alcohol to ignite.
Constitution provides us freedom to hold peaceful gatherings. Yet freedom come with a cost, it is never free. Let me narrate this episode mentioned by friend Kulamani babu on another thread, which pretty much tells the story -
"When copies of books like "One quarter of hour in night @ call center" and of hundreds of such titles mushrooming, the authors of such masterpieces being decorated with Padma Awards, such incidents would be very common in future. Last Sunday, while going to to IIT, Hyderabad with my wife and son, witnessed a boy and a girl were indulged in serious love making on the 8 Track NEHRU OUTER Express highway in broad day light and their two wheeler was acting like a bed ! We could not look and talk to our son for rest of the time ! Two wheelers are banned in side the highway."
For those have nots, who don't get such an opportunity in real life, do get a voyeuristic, vicarious pleasure on watching these scenes. For them the sight of vociferous Damsels in midnight's crowd in darkness is a God sent opportunity to grab, so they grope it.
One can't clap using one hand. It always works both ways, so both moral and regular policing can help. By moral policing, I am not suggesting sermons by sundry Netas (Leaders) or Gurus. We should look at Singapore, which applies a carrot and stick policy. Carrot - Ethical values infused in their educational system, some guided by our eminent Odia writer Manoj Das as cultural consultant to the Citi-state. Charity begins at home, the parents and elders should cultivate ethics in their young minds.
Stick - Fear of lashes as the DANDA (stick) works wonder, where logic fails. Once during early 90s, the Singaporean authorities went on to lash an American tourist who broke the law of the land, in spite of the Superpower exhaustively exerting its diplomatic might to prevent it. Singapore doesn't have this concept of sparing someone, because that someone is SALA KA MAMA KA BHATIJA (nephew of my Uncle's brothers-in-law). They went ahead and implemented the sentence. Our DANDA is no less effective than their lashes. If implemented without fear or favor, can yield awesome results.
Thrashing prone Lord Mahadev
Constitution provides us freedom to hold peaceful gatherings. Yet freedom come with a cost, it is never free. Let me narrate this episode mentioned by friend Kulamani babu on another thread, which pretty much tells the story -
"When copies of books like "One quarter of hour in night @ call center" and of hundreds of such titles mushrooming, the authors of such masterpieces being decorated with Padma Awards, such incidents would be very common in future. Last Sunday, while going to to IIT, Hyderabad with my wife and son, witnessed a boy and a girl were indulged in serious love making on the 8 Track NEHRU OUTER Express highway in broad day light and their two wheeler was acting like a bed ! We could not look and talk to our son for rest of the time ! Two wheelers are banned in side the highway."
For those have nots, who don't get such an opportunity in real life, do get a voyeuristic, vicarious pleasure on watching these scenes. For them the sight of vociferous Damsels in midnight's crowd in darkness is a God sent opportunity to grab, so they grope it.
One can't clap using one hand. It always works both ways, so both moral and regular policing can help. By moral policing, I am not suggesting sermons by sundry Netas (Leaders) or Gurus. We should look at Singapore, which applies a carrot and stick policy. Carrot - Ethical values infused in their educational system, some guided by our eminent Odia writer Manoj Das as cultural consultant to the Citi-state. Charity begins at home, the parents and elders should cultivate ethics in their young minds.
Stick - Fear of lashes as the DANDA (stick) works wonder, where logic fails. Once during early 90s, the Singaporean authorities went on to lash an American tourist who broke the law of the land, in spite of the Superpower exhaustively exerting its diplomatic might to prevent it. Singapore doesn't have this concept of sparing someone, because that someone is SALA KA MAMA KA BHATIJA (nephew of my Uncle's brothers-in-law). They went ahead and implemented the sentence. Our DANDA is no less effective than their lashes. If implemented without fear or favor, can yield awesome results.
Here goes the lesser known Odia Adage,
MADA KHIA MAHADEVA
MADA KHAILA BARA DABA, transliterated
Thrashing prone Lord Mahadev
Grants boon, if he gets thrashed
For only thrashing he obeys.
The fearless Lord Mahedev once granted boon to a demon after being severely thrashed by the later. As we say in Odia, MADA EKA AMOGHA ASTRA (Thrashing is an effective weapon). Nothing works like DANDA therapy, which can work wonders. Not suggesting a Saudi style moral policing, but Prevention in the form of practising certain discretion in public is always better than cure in the form of DANDA therapy. Otherwise, it will take someone to strike a matchstick in a room filled with inflammable gas to initiate the next firestorm, which is waiting to happen.
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