Agree here with Sarabjit.
Having said that, I felt some strange sense of discomfort when the sms
campaign that hit my phone. However I put down mu feelings as unworthy and
replied JESSICA or whatever one was asked to do. The discomfort came back
with the candlelight marches.
You say her lifestyle caught up with her. Gita put it a lot more strongly.
Me, I don't know what was not innocent about her or what her
lifestyle-on-wheels was. The point is, I couldn't care less; no one deserved
what she got.
Did she get a fair trial? Was the investigation deliberately botched? Was
the judgement to blame? Too many cases have gone by with the familiar
pattern, witnesses are planted to turn hostile when directed, the police
case manipulated. When Neelam Krish (uphaar) says this could happen to
anyone, she is right if she means that any trial could go this way, that
pols buy off entire cases. I am willing to believe this without proof, just
on the basis of mountains of conversation with those in the know, despite my
respect for legal process. I don't care if she was in an illegal party in an
illegal building: the bullet wouldn't have known or cared either. (This is
not to state that Qutb colonnade is not a misuse and should not be sealed,
it must). I do think Gita has garbled the two towards the end of the post:
not a bit like the Gita I have been reading.
So why was I uncomfortable? Because the protesters sought, it seemed to me,
to enlist our support without a plan; without a specific target--the police,
or the witnesses, or the judgement. What action was sought? When someone
says "the whole system" they commit a terrible sin, that of attempting to
engage our emotions while almost ensuring that their gun is trained in no
direction, but actually lets off every party loved by refusing to pin
responsibility: the whole system, so none, or worse, "all of us", are to
blame. If I didn't know otherwise, I'd say a cover-up could hardly have
been better planned.
So I am tempted to say, that while I cannot join a burn-in-hell party, we
were expected to join this protest because she was young, pretty, and one of
us; this is why I am pissed off. You see it all the time: the aesthetics of
the cause are what determine who joins it. If we must march, a good looking
cause is the least one can do, right? And the cause always looks best by
candlelight.
> Dear Gita,
>
> Methinks thou has crossed a line on this post. The road to hell is filled
> with good intentions. I dont know how you have characterised Jessica as some
> sort of scarlet woman who deserved the unfortunate fate which befell her. I
> would charitably characterise her as a person whose lifestyle caught up with
> her.
>
> Sarbajit
Warmly
Itu
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Having said that, I felt some strange sense of discomfort when the sms
campaign that hit my phone. However I put down mu feelings as unworthy and
replied JESSICA or whatever one was asked to do. The discomfort came back
with the candlelight marches.
You say her lifestyle caught up with her. Gita put it a lot more strongly.
Me, I don't know what was not innocent about her or what her
lifestyle-on-wheels was. The point is, I couldn't care less; no one deserved
what she got.
Did she get a fair trial? Was the investigation deliberately botched? Was
the judgement to blame? Too many cases have gone by with the familiar
pattern, witnesses are planted to turn hostile when directed, the police
case manipulated. When Neelam Krish (uphaar) says this could happen to
anyone, she is right if she means that any trial could go this way, that
pols buy off entire cases. I am willing to believe this without proof, just
on the basis of mountains of conversation with those in the know, despite my
respect for legal process. I don't care if she was in an illegal party in an
illegal building: the bullet wouldn't have known or cared either. (This is
not to state that Qutb colonnade is not a misuse and should not be sealed,
it must). I do think Gita has garbled the two towards the end of the post:
not a bit like the Gita I have been reading.
So why was I uncomfortable? Because the protesters sought, it seemed to me,
to enlist our support without a plan; without a specific target--the police,
or the witnesses, or the judgement. What action was sought? When someone
says "the whole system" they commit a terrible sin, that of attempting to
engage our emotions while almost ensuring that their gun is trained in no
direction, but actually lets off every party loved by refusing to pin
responsibility: the whole system, so none, or worse, "all of us", are to
blame. If I didn't know otherwise, I'd say a cover-up could hardly have
been better planned.
So I am tempted to say, that while I cannot join a burn-in-hell party, we
were expected to join this protest because she was young, pretty, and one of
us; this is why I am pissed off. You see it all the time: the aesthetics of
the cause are what determine who joins it. If we must march, a good looking
cause is the least one can do, right? And the cause always looks best by
candlelight.
> Dear Gita,
>
> Methinks thou has crossed a line on this post. The road to hell is filled
> with good intentions. I dont know how you have characterised Jessica as some
> sort of scarlet woman who deserved the unfortunate fate which befell her. I
> would charitably characterise her as a person whose lifestyle caught up with
> her.
>
> Sarbajit
Warmly
Itu
--------------------
Itu Chaudhuri Design
B189 Greater Kailash I
New Delhi 110048
tel 91 11 29243993/29233994