Wednesday, April 20, 2011

WE KILL FOR HONOUR (??)

Family Killing
India is a strange country and having lived here all my life I can say it with a great conviction. We kill for our 'honour' but we elect candidates with a proven track record of extortion, fraud, graft, murders, and so on. The list is endless. Multimillion dollar scams are given a blind eye as we are busy reporting the century of centuries. People like Hasan Ali who are akin to traitors of our nation are blessed with political safety of highest order. I am sure that Enforcement Directorate's custody or a judicial custody will not damage his corruption morals in any ways. While Hasan is being interrogated, the real masters behind the whole Black money trail are willfully ignored. India is full of avaricious politicians who use people like Ali to save their own black money abroad. To sum it up, let’s say our politicians (or criminals) are proactive while are authorities are supine. Consider it for a second, how the hell in the world can a small time horse racing gambler make an amount as staggering as $8 billion. Leave it, else I get emotionally charged.
Take Indian cinema and it’s overwhelmingly powerful hero with impeccable ideals. We all love him but our love and adoration for him ceases to exist once we enter the civilized (use corrupt if you may) society. We almost never follow the exemplary ideals of a hero. We observe with our own blood filled eyes how criminals like A Raja sell rare national treasures like telecom spectrum at throwaway rates.  As I observe in my routine life, people like A Raja, Suresh Kalmadi and Hasan Ali are role models for the younger generation.
Now, let’s come to the Honour killing part of the article. HONOUR Killing? Really? Do we have any honour left? I doubt it. Haryana tops the list of people with maximum honour ratings (killings) followed very closely by Uttar Pradesh. Even after the barbaric and gruesome murder of couples like Manoj and Babli state administration is lagging back on the action. The reason is very clear. The accused are from the Jat community which constitutes a major part of the vote bank for the state politicians. And someone said governments are not privatized.
The government is more prone to manhandling by its own constituents and electors than the opposition it dreads. As a result, botched probes and snail speed are a norm when it comes to investigation to corruption or honor killing cases. And rightly so, akhir baap logon se kaun panga le???
- Sunny Gusain

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