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Molestation for Everybody's consumption...for self-styled moral policing brigade consumption, for activists' consumption, for politicians' consumption, for the confused/informed/evolved masses' consumption and more profoundly for media's consumption... Such is the consumption dynamics that everyone would love to hear and harp more and more on molestation...
Unfortunately in this melee, the woman becomes a victim, if I can extend the argument - a 'self inflicted Victimization' ...In the recent past it was, Guwhati and yesterday Mangalore...and there definitely is a pattern, i will explain this in a while. Before that, I am not sure if the homestay - had the necessary license to conduct late night parties, store and serve alcohol. Am also not sure if there was anything illegal about the proclaimed 'birthday partying' and if they had to be 'disturbed', and perhaps not sure if parents of these 'Students' were Ok with their daughters and sons spend a 'whole night', 'partying' away from their homes... Am sure the 'liberals', the 'seculars', the 'evolved' would like to take a jibe at my thoughts...but lets get into specifics...
First, self-styled moral policing brigade, the activists for 'protectionism' - I dont think there is much to talk about these groups, i mean they will always be there to do what they did... whether what they do is good/bad is debatable...obviously, both these groups do it for 'Consumption' and their piece of fame...and when either of the fringe group's identity gets suffixed/prefixed with 'Hindu' or say 'Woman', their consumption dynamics increases even more...and hence they will be there - the moral brigade and the protectionism activists...remember, 'Hindu' adds more to the PR Value add claim...for once, I go with the other community's conservatism...coz their moral brigade activism starts @ home!!
What baffles me more is the other two groups - the 'confused masses' who consume the media and the media themselves...the latter first - The Indian Media, the less we talk about the insanity, better it is...Be it in Guwhati/Mangalore, Media house was indeed 'complicit' in the 'crime'...they do it all for the TRPs...The channels are alerted in advance, who send the camera crews, the thugs orchestrate the event, TRPs raise, the org. wins their moment of fame and a win-win for both...I mean, its absolutely "Made for TV - Breaking News" segment...nothing else...the visuals are shared with other media house for a cost and all the media join the chorus for 'breaking news', 'exclusive reports'...huh...the so called channel with a difference 'Public TV' from Ranganath who harps that his is the most sacrosanct channel is no different either...and his channel also had called 'Swamijis' to deliberate and give a verdict! Swamijis for their piece of fame, join the bandwagon and step out of the Mutts! Heights...Anyone knowing the basics of Journalism will tell you about the time lag between an incident and newsroom reporting. Any Channel saying that they did not know the incident in advance to inform police is outright BullShit....The organisers do not want to wait till tomorrow and hence, print media is never arranged for such stakes :)
What intrigues me the most is - what ails and whats this Kolaveri all about...and I think invariably it means "We the people"...I think there are two facets of imbalances we are experiencing...Biologically, its all about 'Harmonal imbalance' :) The molesters - the males are on extra levels of testosterone levels that drives them for their animal instincts...and the progesterone plays its part, in my opinion, it manifests itself in 'embracing' more of western ideology, more of liberalized outlook, more of the hip - called the 'pub culture', manifests itself in a pseudo identity of 'Empowerment'...so much for it... The other imbalance which is the most alarming is - the 'societal imbalance'...the masses who seem to be more 'schooled' than educated, consume that embracing western ideology and its paraphernalia is all about 'the thing' today...the middle class families in the claim of 'modernism' who let their offsprings embrace the new identity, make them vulnerable knowingly or unknowingly and hence let them tagged to the lesser known ills - one of western culture, the western attire, the western ethos or the lack off all of it...its time to sit back and think...when the guardians let it all lose, the new generation Junta think they are 'free' and have 'arrived'..they see freeness in their thought process, in their choices...its for all to introspect... is this what we should have consumed from the west? Indian identity has always been one of strong morality, value systems, ethos..in the guise of freeness, today's junta embrace everything from the west and make a confused choice...even upto the extent that atheism is perceived fashionable! its ok, its their take, but shows how deeply entrenched and dangerous is the choice making in the name of liberalisation! Wish the liberalisation was only for economics....... I believe, irrespective of the community tenets, Indian Culture is absolutely the finest and one of highest credentials and unfortunately this is getting eroded...Copying western tenets in 'part' is all about creating confusions...one embraces western attire, western practices like dating, pubbing, one night stands and so on and so forth...when such confusions exist and with all the other reasons as discussed, it results in molestations, physical abuses etc..the reason I see is simple, Indians want to embrace western culture in part...in the west, with their own culture, their believes, their own thoughts, their morals, their attires, they also embrace the other ills in the name of freeness - like dating, premarital sex, live-in relationship, extramarital affairs, multiple partners etc...Indians who want to embrace the west in part, get entangled which leads to confusions...Studies show that Indians are Sex starved...be it in marriage or otherwise...and hence such missing parts and pieces of embraced 'western way' manifests itself in various facets like the physical abuses, various other societal ills there-off...at the end of the day its the women who bear the brunt...but, remember it requires TWO sides for a coin...
Phew...all that I want to say is this - we Indians need to make more informed choices in the way we embrace and reflect upon our culture, the ethos, the values and the morals...else it will be too late before the western social ills like teen pregnancies, premarital sex, the dating, the live-in relationships, the extramarital affairs, the divorces etc will get deeply entrenched and cut across a sorry figure in our society...it could happen in my family or yours and before we realize it... and when we do so it could be late...so think and spread the word...Lets take whats good from the West and leave the Rest back to them!
