News is the
communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print,
broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third-party or mass audience. In
contrast news nowadays is a piece of story or a nonfiction thread that can make
the reader go dumb. Like the series of current affairs that is making me
speechlessly dumb. News meets a mixture of social, civic, personally-enriching,
and work-related needs in people’s lives. True…but for me news is sadly
disturbing piece of information that makes you think “Hello !!! Are we living in Kalyug”. Kaliyug-The
"Age of Downfall", is the fourth stage of the world development that
we are currently in. As the corruption gradually developed wider in the earlier
stages. This stage is the climax stage when the world finally meets a judgment day
at the end of it as said in Hindu Scriptures. It's not known when the end
comes, but it's believed that we still have a long way to go. At the end of
KalYuga, it is believed that a new order of a peaceful global society will be
established. i will be happy if a new non violent, calm and a civilized culture will
take birth.
Past few months’ series of news bulletins that were deemed as 'BREAKING
NEWS' have broken my heart again and again. I don’t know or I’ll rather say…I
can’t trust if one man can be kind to another just for no reason at all. So the
New Year itself started with the death of Nirbhaya. We said goodbye to a flame
of hope and humanity. I was aghast with what
Nirbhaya went through, her torture and pain. Finally with her passing away I
thought maybe now she will be harmless and at peace. The reek of her anguish
& suffering was still in the air that I spot news of 5 year old being raped…not
only raped but GANG RAPED! I read the
headlines and question myself are we humans or have opted to live like
cannibals. So much for sentences and punishments being the talk of the town,
and here we go again with sexual assaults. Are we not scared at all...? Are we desensitized
to such an extent that we as in the public make a mistake which is inconsolable
to any degree. None the less, our authorities are busy indeed busy making laws
and decrees as never even in our nightmares we had thought of us humans to
attempt rape and puncture the vagina’s of girls(girls here comprise of any element
of female fraternity be it a 5 year old, a college goer or even a lady reaching
her menopause) for momentary pleasures.
Ek thi Daayan. The film released just a few days back. News
and media have almost made a mother Daayan. I am talking of the much unclear anonymity
behind Aarushi’s murder case. According to the CBI it was a cold blooded murder
that too by her parents. They have applied simple math here. 4 people were
present in the house during time of the murder, 2 are dead… 2 dead and two
alive…that gives you an answer to the 2 unfortunately living have to be the
murderers. Being a mother, how can I believe something this filthy to be true?
And if it is… this filth is going to increase day by day. It has Nupur, Aarushi’s
mother portrayed as a Daayan and her father Rajesh a Kasaai-a Butcher. These two have been convicted
of slaying their own daughter for their personal interests. A massacre that has slaughtered esteem & identity
of the Talwar’s to a big level.
Lastly and I hope the least , Sarabjit met his end early
morning today. For me he too has
attained moksha & peace only by his death. Since 1990, he was battling with
the assumptions of being an intruder to Pakistan according to Pakistan's intelligence services,
and according to his own intelligence he was just passerby who accidently
crossed home soil in the influence of alcohol and was given a new birth of a spy
by the Pak authorities. Even if we
assume that if he was a spy why didn’t our authorities do something for our ‘Agent
Vinod’ rotting in jail and longing to be with his family for 23 long years? He
was captured as Manjit Singh and died in that name too. After his demise when the drama is over why debate
on giving him national honor at his funeral and giftng him matrydom?
Will that bring back the lost fatherhood for his daughters? Will that
retrieve the criticism his family must have gone through these years. Will it
bring back the sanity for Sarabjit’s village men to think that our neighboring
country blamed for so many grey cases may even turn out to be a nation of nice
hearted and fair people? There is only a
single answer to all the above questions…. No no noo!!!
I slept over all these news to dream of a small sequence. I
see a round table conference …there is huge table placed with four chairs
against one huge chair on the other side. There are clouds in shades of white,
silver & blue all over. On the one huge seat against the 4 small seats is a
wise, white robed man seated. He carries a colossal book on his desk which he
fills in with a feathered pen and ink. His four subjects seated in front are in
the order of their dismissal from earth. Aarushi, next seat is Nirbhaya, next to
her is the 5 year old and then the latest entrant Sarabjit. The wise man who is
kindly interrogating the four is filling information in the book which is title
as “Unresolved Mysteries Volume 2013-10K”. What a puzzle. If I could only know what
must have been the truth, what must have climaxed that time of their demise…Would
that change anything intime today? Would I know who killed Aarushi, was
Sarabjit really Manjit Singh? What horrible exchange of words must have taken
for the rapists to torment Nirbhaya to death, and what led to a Man’s mind for
him to quench his bodily thirst by entering into a 5 year olds tender body.Knowing the anwers I would not be any different from those who know the resolve to these secrets but are mum becauuse of pressure & media hypes.
And so...all my questions remain unanswered and left to be resolved....but another grave quention now.... is 'BY WHOM'???
