What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you’re that pissed that so many others had it good.
As Good As It Gets
As I laboured through Cho Seung-Hui’s final video testament of how all those rich kids with their trust funds and Mercedeses and their debauchery had brought this divine retribution on themselves and how he like Jesus Christ was going to inspire generations of the weak and defenceless, I felt revulsion and pity for that asshole in equal measure.
17 bodies of children and women recovered from one house. The owner and the servant confess to rape and murder. And how does the UP government react?
Times of India reports:
Uttar Pradesh Public Works Department Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav on Thursday raised eyebrows by describing the grisly murders of children in Noida as “small and routine incidents”.
“Such small incidents keep happening,” Shivpal said.
Yes indeed. Such small incidents keep happening. Especially to migrant workers from other states, too poor to bribe the police , too disenfranchised to have a political voice and too unlucky not to be from Mulayam (and his brother Shivpal Singh)’s caste.
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
–DC Holocaust Museum
There are few things that horrify us nowadays, inured as we are to the pain and suffering of others. Exposed to movies like SAW where people are shown having their arms pulled out of their sockets and to television images of men with half their brains blown off, a whole generation of violence zombies have been created for whom cruelty to human beings leaves as much effect as that of watching the blood of aliens being splattered in video games.
Of course there are times when people are able to rise above their apathy and ennui as in the case of the Priyadarshini Mattoo case and force the hand of justice despite the attempts of the high-and-the-mighty to twist it for their advantage. Those are indeed, empowering moments—-when we as a people realize that we are not as powerless as we like to believe and that the sons of politicians and policemen are not as above the law as they like to think.
Of course these moments come few. And far in between.
From Mumbai Mirror (it doesnt let you link into its archives)
A software engineer was arrested by the Saki Naka police on Tuesday for threatening to use the “latest technology†to put up nude pictures of his neighbours on the Internet.
Raju Srivastav (39), who worked in a private firm in Bangalore until recently and lives in Andheri, was charged with sexual assault by Manjeet Singh and other neighbours on July 31.
The women say that Srivastav would pick fights with them when they passed each other in the building, and then threaten to morph their faces unto nude bodies and make objectionable films with them.
Srivastav was produced in court on August 2, and has been remanded to judicial custody till August 17.
“The neighbours say that he threatened to picture them nude and distribute the CDs for free, but no pornographic material has been found in his home,†said senior police officer J Khandagale of Saki Naka police station.
Srivastav’s lawyer claims that his client has been framed. “My client is a software engineer and wouldn’t stoop to such low levels. The neighbours have been provoked by his ex-wife,†he said.
It is reportedly that his wife divorced him because she couldn’t handle his harassment. However, Srivastav says she was having an affair with their driver, and floated the harassment rumour to get rid of him.
Srivastav had reportedly got the driver to confess to the affair, which he later showed his then wife.
What pleased me no end was the statement by the lawyer :
“My client is a software engineer and wouldn’t stoop to such low levels”.
That is if the guy was a chemical engineer or perhaps a lawyer, then surely he could do something this retrograde.
But a software engineer: oh no no—-as we all know, they are paragons of virtue and moral rectitude. Plus they would be the last persons on earth who would know anything about image morphing.
Paidal chal raha hoon, ek gaari chahiye,
Jeevan ke safaar main ek sawari chahiye,
Akela hain Mr. Khiladi,
Miss Khiladi chahiye. —Mr and Mrs. Khiladi
All you hot “babes” (as per Hindustan Times lingo)—it’s time that you used your mini-skirts, tank tops, assorted accessories and most-of-all your knowledge of the Page 3 side of the force for the good of the country.
How?
By going on a date with this man. And his other cohorts.
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