Free to Go; Case Dismissed!

This is what happens after all. You commit a crime, you are granted bail and in all probability you will be let off because let's face it, our judicial system will pass judgment only when elephants start to fly and when I win the Miss Universe competition.
In recent news, the Mangalore pub attackers have now been granted bail. They were apprehended only because the media made this headline news.
The pub owner himself was apprehensive about filing a complaint against the offenders. I don't blame him. Pitting yourself against goons backed by political parties is not the wisest thing to do. Well, yeah all of us know that in India you can expect to be safe from your local petty thief but not politicians.
And not only politicians, the police as well. News archives bear testimony to crimes against women committed by the police; rape, molestation, harassment, the list goes on.
Santhosh once told me of an incident that his friend narrated to him. His friend was studying in Delhi at the time. For dinner he went to this Dhaba, I think around the outskirts of Delhi, and next to him sat this policeman who was armed. While he was making small talk with the policeman a van passed by and a girl was shouting and screaming out for help. He of course asked the policeman about why was he not doing anything about it, shouldn't he go and save her. The policeman said, "Kya saab, honge kuch MLA ke bete. Hum kuch nahi kar sakhthe." (Translation: What Sir, these people are probably the sons of some MLAs. We cannot do anything about it.)
So, politicians and their offspring have a free hand and can have anything and anyone they fancy. Santhosh's friend was of course really shocked, but the policeman was unperturbed. It was just another ignorable incident on his beat.
When I heard this story I was shocked too (more for the reason that things like this actually do happen and are not just dramatised in Hindi movies, where three out of five movies would feature a damsel in distress screaming 'Bachao, Bachao' (Help, Help) from a moving vehicle filled with nasty men) and was relieved that this sort of thing was not known to happen around Mangalore.
But I can't be so sure anymore.
Today, the politicians have attacked women in a pub in the name of morality. Tomorrow they might go a step further and commit more heinous crimes with the knowledge and assurance that they will be bailed out.
Are our leaders going to do something about this? Oh wait, most of our 'leaders' already have criminal records. And they know that they are "free to go".

Human and Inhuman Rights

I am all for human rights, but does 'human rights' apply to people who are the most inhuman?
Muthalik was handed over to the Mangalore police after being granted bail by the Davangere police. And then the he says that he cannot travel because he 'was tired'. I say, human and fundamental rights apart, which he didn't care for while carrying out his various operations, he should have been given the same treatment that he has bestowed upon others and forcefully been taken to Mangalore.
This brings us to another questionable and known fact, 'how powerful are the Indian police?'. No doubt, when it comes to common people like us, they impose their power and even if you are right you have to concede defeat.
So why are political goons given V.I.P treatment? A person who violates another person's rights should be revoked and stripped of all his rights, then and there.
This incident has now made International news. And seeing the place of my hometown being on news for a reason like does not make me proud. We have the SRS to thank for this. Clearly with this incident they are 'going international' too.
It is a known fact that these political goons are given the best treatment in jails. It is probably second home for them and are, I guess, relatively safer. They can run their operations from jail; molesting, murdering and spreading a state of 'war' and there's no one to stop them.
While people are debating whether Kasab should be hanged or not, there are Indian militants within our cities and towns making life hell for us. The violation on human rights has been committed by both these people. Don't they both deserve a similar sentence then?

Custodians of Indian Culture?

Two days ago Santhosh told me that "something happened in Mangalore." All I knew at that time was that some hooligans, assaulted some girls and boys in a pub in Mangalore. Well, those people didn't call themselves hooligans but identified themselves from the Sri Ram Sena; self proclaimed moral police.
These incidents have taken place in Mangalore in the past. If a Muslim guy is dating a Hindu girl, the Bajrang Dal will find them and beat up the Muslim boy. And if you think the Hindu girl is safe in all this, she is not. There has been news when these so called 'custodians of Indian culture' have molested, raped and beaten up the poor Hindu girl as well. Bastards! But then none of these incidents ever made it to the news.
So when I heard about this bit of news, I was not surprised; see how resilient we become? 'Yeah, it's happened before'; 'Bloody Bajrang Dal are at it again'

Yesterday I saw this video, and I was livid.


The people who are claiming to be 'custodians of Indian culture' were molesting and harassing women. You idiots! Is this your version of Indian culture, beating up women?
What right has anybody to physically abuse a person.

Muthalik in a press statement said that 'there is no need to raise a hue and cry about the Mangalore pub attack on women.'
And then he says that 'SRS activists did not attack the girls but the boys who had brought them to the pub'.
Oh yes, Muthalik, these were images of a fictional short movie, weren't they.

In this video, this young girl has given a first hand account and this just angers me even more.

I really wish rabid dogs were feasting on these guys' balls right now (Yeah, I heard this quote on FRIENDS)