The
last few weeks of 2012 had been a nightmare. The new year is no better, at
least as yet. While we continue to have discussions on the Delhi rape case,
every day more and more sordid cases of rape and molestation crop up in the
news. It is really a nightmare, to say the least. Nowhere and at no other time
did we feel less secure, more helpless and more agitated. The governmental
machinery seem to be in a state of constant paralysis.
As
if this was not enough, we have our great netas shooting off the mouth with
surprising regularity. Sometimes it is some fellow asking for overcoats to
school to another character talking about Bharat and India and some such
gibberish and then someone talks about Park Street case – it is endless. And
very next day it is the foot in the mouth disease that afflicts them. And as if
this was not enough, now we have half witted godmen also giving opinions about
calling rapists brothers. What next tie them a Rakhi ? And then we have Khaps....Oh my God give us a break !
Time
these people realized that before making a statement they need some grey matter
in their upper storey. As there was a joke, it is better to keep the mouth shut
and risk people calling you a fool rather than opening the mouth and removing
all doubt.
Our
great netas and godmen and semi-literate Khap spokesmen and such characters better understand that.
I
feel like carrying a placard and start shouting from every rooftop “Will you
please shut up !!!!”
