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Friday 29 August, 2008
 00:08 | 26/Apr/2007 |  17 Comment(s)
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Not isolated incidents

First, I apologize for hurting any woman whose conscience says that they are not the kind of “women” I am talking about and if they really feel that they belong to a perfectly opposite category (though I don’t think there are many such women in the world).

Now, somebody told that what I wrote about men were all isolated incidents. Perfectly not! I wrote “rape accused are usually beaten by several people for hours”. Here “many people” does not refer to “mob”; it refers to police men. You can verify this by actually
verifying facts from a police station. But rape cases are rare; you have to wait and check this fact. One can say that the law of the land does not allow this; but just because the law does not permit this, we cannot ignore the facts or say such things don’t happen. And this may not happen if the accused is a famous person. If a person is caught for pick pocketing, he is usually beaten for about half an hour by 2-3 people; he can not walk; some of his bones may break because of which he may not be able to properly do his daily works in future; does the law of the land permit this? No. But we all know that these are all very “common” things and since they are so “common”, we do not tend to worry about them.

Somebody told that the tortures employed in Tihar jail were isolated incidents. A few years ago Editor in chief of a Kannada weekly (Taranga) wrote in one of his editorials which explained the state of jails in general and Tihar jail in particular. His editorials were always based on elaborated studies and research and they were highly acclaimed editorials and were considered authoritative by all. He wrote like this (about Tihar jail): “Forget rollers and aeroplanes; they are very common; tortures like fully filling the anus of inmates with chilly powder and taking sadist pleasure seeing the inmates writhing with pain are very common here.” It is a well known fact that police cut some part near the feet so that prisoners can no longer run and escape for ever. Rowdies get their tongues chopped off; what about encounters? Do you know the number of custodial deaths per year? Recently a person was caught by the police in Bangalore for “eave teasing” and he was beaten so harshly that he died in the police custody. There are several other torture methods which are very common but I can not mention all of them, in detail, here, e.g., burning with cigarettes. One student (in Karnataka) appeared for exams on behalf of another student and was caught; what the police did?; police came with a knife to cut his genitals!

Yes! All these are very common in this “modern”, “civilized”, “21st century”. The situation is worse in third worlds like Africa. What about America? You know how these “cultured” and “civilized” people tortured Iraqi prisoners; haven’t you seen the photograph of a UK woman pulling a naked male Iraqi prisoner a few years back? You would have shouted with all your voice if such things ever happened to any single woman in the world. As per a first hand account from a soldier from Indian Army “We caught an enemy person; we dipped him in the boiling water which was so hot that steam was coming out of the water; but still he didn’t reveal any of their secrets; he was so patriotic about his nation”. Who knows whether that poor fellow knew any single secret so that he could reveal that during the torture.


Now, had I wrote that there is child abuse in India, all the contemporary “good” people would have roared against me telling that such a thing is unimaginable in our “great” nation except a very few “isolated” incidents. Now all of you know from the survey (which was announced in the newspapers recently) that nearly 50% of children in India are abused; it also mentioned that boys are subjected to more physical abuse compared to girls (but this information was pushed to the last line; see the politics here also!)

Now, I expect ideal women and women supporters to say: “These tortures may be there; so what?; these culprits deserve these kinds of punishments; there is nothing wrong in taking law into hands in these incidents; these tortures must be legalized; why do you worry about that?”

What I am trying to say is that while you are so sadist and so happy about these tortures, I am definitely not going to talk against these; “Why should I worry about these?” (as long as I am not affected by them? But, all I want from you people is to agree that these people have got enough punishments; I am against the insincerity which argues that these people didn’t get “sufficient” punishment, even after undergoing such heinous tortures.

I have heard the popular saying “A woman is a woman’s enemy”. But it is not quite valid these days. This “modern popular saying” may probably best describe the current situation: “A man is a man’s enemy; a woman is also a man’s enemy; women are women supporters; also, men are women supporters”

Somebody told me: “Why can’t you implement in your life what you are telling in your blogs?” I would like to clarify that my blogs are results of my life. Hence where is the need for my life to become a result of my blogs?

Somebody commented that I was writing these blogs because I was after cheap popularity; I invite anybody to come forward to publish these in your name and you need not give any credits to me; I will only be happy if you publish books on this theme and embed my blogs in those books too; I can even deleted my blogs which are in my name, if I am convinced that someone does that. Of course, although for some people these blogs themselves are unnecessarily lengthy (someone told: you take 100 words to tell something which requires only 10 words), for some others, these blogs are too short to comprehend and hence they in fact need many book volumes on these themes to fully get an idea of what I am saying and to get all their doubts clarified, to get all my arguments proved (somebody told: I don’t understand the difference between a “dream society” and a “dream world”).

Now I am expecting somebody to ask: “Don’t you have any other work to do? Why are you singing your usual song always?”
What I would like to point out is that these things are relevant now more than ever before.
Recently one of the world top economic bodies told: “Never in the history of mankind the gap between rich and poor has been as large as it is now”. But according to our modern superstition: “In earlier days there was a lot of gap between rich and poor; now in the modern world this gap has been reducing”
Now, the real thing is: “Never in the history of mankind the gap between women and men has been as large as it is now”. But according to our modern superstition: “In olden days, condition of women was not good; now the things are improving”. To clarify the first statement (i.e., the real thing): “Even in olden days women used to dominate men; but now this dominance is increasing at least exponentially”. Hence the subject I am talking about is relevant now more than ever before. Somebody wrote: “It took 100 years for women to come out of the kitchen”. I agree that women didn’t have the privilege of sitting in front of a computer even just hundred years back. But may I draw your kind attention to the fact that many men didn’t have the privilege of sitting in front of a computer even just 25 years back? While women were comfortably inside the kitchen, men were ploughing the ground under the sun. While privileged men (like kings) had a good life, privileged women (like queens) also had a good life (but kings had to fight wars, get wounded). One cannot compare Bill Gates with a beggar woman and say that men are privileged than women. Just think of Bill Gates working very hard in his office while his wife eats ice cream with other men, chatting and laughing (this is just a guess); and after returning home, it is “chauvinism” if he talks anything about her eating ice cream; and she will nag him telling that he drank coffee with his secretary, even though he drank coffee with his secretary very seriously; Poor Bill Gates! Also, even if a man chooses to be inside the kitchen, he doesn’t have that option while women have the option of either staying inside or outside the kitchen and they even have the option to switch between the two.

So nobody saw these facts?
A few years back “Frontline” published a cover page article detailing how girls are dominating boys in the contemporary society. There is a group of men who assist men in getting free legal help for harassed husbands. In the West, there are a few groups who fight for men’s rights. Many authors, poets, big figures in literature (both men and women) talk about these things indirectly or by giving these a humorous touch (they don’t want to go directly against their time). One famous woman from Bollywood told in her article: “Sexual harassment is not restricted to harassment of girls by boys; in the present world, the opposite is also true; usually “small boys” are caught; catch big boys, if you can; it will be even better and interesting if you could catch “big girls””. Recently one researcher found out that condition of male prostitutes is much worse than the condition of female prostitutes; interestingly, the person is a woman from India; she also suggested different measures to bring them up. All authorities agree that the suffering of harassed men is more drastic compared to that of the harassed women, may be due to the attitude of the society towards men.

THIS WORLD IS A BIG FRAUD IN WHICH ALL MEN ARE FOOLED; THERE IS NO WAY FOR ANY MAN TO ESCAPE FROM THIS FRAUD WHETHER HE KNOWS ABOUT THIS FROUD OR NOT.

You will immediately ask: “Then, why, why, why are you wasting, wasting, wasting time writing these blogs???”
That is… That is because the fraud is covered by another fraud. While the first fraud ensures that all men are made fools, this “covering fraud” ensures that all people believe men have an edge over women although the truth is otherwise. Although nobody can avoid the first fraud, I believe that the second “covering fraud” may be avoided, if we can move the mountains; and I am hopeful that it may be possible to avoid this “covering fraud” because somebody told “we can move mountains if we really wish”!
So, the main purpose of my blogs is to make an infinitesimally small contribution towards melting this outer “covering fraud” so that all can clearly see the inner fraud, though nothing could be done further to ward off the inner fraud.

So, there is no cure for men’s problems (we can do nothing about the inner fraud); but there is treatment for men’s problems (we can ward off the outer “covering fraud”); but since this treatment is too tedious, although not impossible, it is not feasible. So, what is the first aid at least? The FIRST AID FOR MEN’S PROBLEMS which I can think of now is:
MEN, YOU SPEAK OUT! ; OPENLY TELL ABOUT ALL YOUR PROBLEMS; DON’T BE AFRAID OF SHEDDING OFF THAT SELFDEVASTATING PSEUDOPRESTIGE; WHY A BEGGAR WHO DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING SHOULD BE AFRAID OF A ROBBERY?
AND WOMEN, SHUT YOUR MOUTHS PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…










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