The experience in the light of the recent
events has been noticed with close attention by one and all. It was a mega
event for the Indian Media and full-day was devoted to the event making it
necessary for analysis and reactions.
The majority
versus Minority Issue.
The step of
hanging a culprit of a atrocious crime as proved in the apex Court of India was
reason enough to punish with the most serious step however some sections of the
society highlighted this as a major punishment for the person belonging to the
minority community. It may look to be a step to demean our national spirit but
rest assured that this was an event which never entered a point of mention in
the social interactions on the day. It was the media who went crazy over the
event so as to repeat it as “’’Breaking- news till the next dawn. It is ironic
why the media goes to highlight such events which are very-matter-of-fact and
have no major impact on , save a few thousand in the millions of Indians who
are concerned more about their daily bread and butter efforts.
The Capital
–punishment cannot be justified in a Civilized Society.
I am of the
opinion that imprisonment –upto-death is much more punishable for a person
than making “it a hang-till-death punishment. The right to life needs to be
defended and the Judiciary should ask for proper amendments of the Law to abolish Capital-punishment. We can
still manage to have a Central Jail like kala-pani in pre-independence era
where the major offenders can be kept in an open jail on an isolated island
which can be a final punishment for life-upto-death for the punished ones. We
have to think afresh in abolishing the death-penalty in a civilized society.
India has been supporting the trend of not abolishing the death penalty out of
some fear of international backlash in the diplomatic circles. This is
unfounded and the death can never end the kinds of crimes that are being perpetrated
by the organized educated and trained criminals.
The Politics
of Hanging is worse than the Hanging itself!
The ruling
party members came out on TV with smiling faces of breaking the news which was
already broken by the e-media. No details came out of these press briefings and
all the political parties lost no chances of showing the valor and courage in
criticizing their opposition parties. The balance was lost when the Kandahar
event , Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, Smt Indiraji’ s murder , fake encounters, etc were reminded to the public in gory details
and the Naxalites were also shown as terrorists in the media. The political
parties do not respect the sentiments of the general public when they target a religious
group in vocalizing their non-sense. The leaders have been making a joke of all
these situations time and again.
Transparency
in lost in the din !
The right to
know and the RTI Act 2005 given to us by the UPA II Government were totally
ignored in this event. The necessary details are not called for in such
situations but when we were able to see live telecast of the 26/11 Mumbai
Attacks, why were we denied the photographs / videos of the dead person?
The Media
highlighted old tapes and showed the old photograph of the culprit which made
the death of a culprit , a National Fiesta when the Government was hiding the
details. We fail to understand the logic of preventing the citizens to verify
that the death was there and the Government had done a good job. This is how we
spoil the kill.
The rumor-
mongers, the anti-national forces find these stories to generate more numbers
of rumors but thanks to the desi News Channels, we had enough and sufficient
details of the Yarwada (Pune ) Event and we can safely say that the
Media is still , to some sensible limit, protecting the rights of the Indian-
Citizens.
I am hopeful
that more than 120 crore people will still raise questions on the stupidities
of its democratically-elected Governments and vocalize the social- concerns in
the future also. This is their fundamental right as enshrined in the
Constitution. And believe that their Governments follows --
“Let us not
hang Transparency !”.
