India was always been divided by various factors… religion, caste, regions, language, ethnicity, economic status …and many others. Yet India was always known as hub of culture and literature, known for non-violence and tolerance and essentially looked upon by the world.
But now Indians are divided on by a single reason into two categories: the powerful and the powerless.
The powerful have money and connection and hence the spirit to shoot at people serving them drinks at party (Jessica Lal Case ), murder the love interest of their sisters(yadav brothers), murder their son-in-law (todi’s), rape and murder (priyadarshani mattu case) and make mockery of justice. I wonder what would have happened if media had not highlighted these cases. While the powerless are on the receiving end of justice, long court cases kill both seeking and receiving justice. A convict in Maharashtra spent 13 years in jail as an under trial before he was given a sentence to serve 10 days for giving false information in his passport.
The powerful hold the right to be offended. They can get offended by what M.F. Hussain paints, Mira Nayar films, Taslima writes and Madhuri dances to. Of course at appropriate timing like when BJP needs votes , kolkata government wants to divert attention from Nandigram and UP government is scared to loosing dalit votes.
The powerful can insight riot and kill innocent men and the system including CBI protects them like accused of 1984 riots. They can be associated with murder an heinous crimes, still hold important public offices, amass inappropriate wealth and practice evident nepotism.
To take the focus away from this divide and stay powerful, these men and women again and again bring to focus on the earlier prevailing divides of religion caste etc, making mockery of humanity.
This is why hue and cry is made over one line of a bollywood song, calling it derogatory for dalits while crime against them is on the rise. Who can forget the crime done against a dalit family in the village of Khairlanji near Nagpur on 29 September 2006.
Inciting religious hatred is now an official way to grab a vote bank. A very very mutilated picture of fundamentalism has surfaced reaching epitome with the heinous murder of family of Graham Stains, Demolition of babri majid, Gurjat riots and many such black days.
Terrorism reigns and continue to kill the powerless as money and personal guard the powerful.
India is now a nightmare for artists; superstition and fallacy represent culture, and the frustration of common man manifesting as mob violence.
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The powerful powerless people . this is a very common feature. I have known girls used , by one and many of these powerful , to serve all what they need for a few hundreds. People beaten blue and black over a matter of 10 bucks , a murder going unnoticed. The power of power is such a big rift in india that it has started to stink, which has its jaws right in hand. The bleeding does not stop, the justice does not come , even asking for justice is injustice. There can be thousand situations. Jessica Lal came in limelight, so did Rakhee Sawant , but does it mean all comes in limelight. for Ms Sawant , one of indian women i dont know dont like but still. if she can take kiss on cheek means she can smooch. the funda fails me . y can she be taken so granted. she is not successful per she is not like rani ( supressing my anger here) who start to smooch right from first movie to all . have never seen rakhe doing that , though i hate the way she dress. So mika goes scott free , for power of money.
sorry if i offended u
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