I haven't seen him like this - emotional, wet in the eyes, unshaven and unkempt. Clearly the wise-man looked terribly disturbed. I did not waste time and asked him what befell him. He started...
She is no more. The sister of the nation is no more. A very brutal end to a budding doctor"s life. Very rarely has someone received so much of sympathy, prayers, blessings and specialised medicare. But nothing worked. Nothing could pull her from the jaws of death. Its a national tragedy. If this is the fate of the educated (and hence empowered), if this is how the strong and brave get bludgeoned by the brute and unequivocally abominable animal instinct of man then life is a wasteful exercise in vanity.
We may hack the guilty to death, we may mourn and grieve for a week or a month or even a year, but nothing can undo the indignity brought onto the nation and its men. Like we have a day for a mother, a dad, a sister, a friend.. let 29th December be designated as a 'Man's Shameful Day'. Its a very minuscule minority amongst us that is wicked in its thoughts, but that few are a part of the system that also creates scientists and sportsmen. How could an absolutely invisible minority bring down an overwhelming majority of good and the correct. It's a faulty system somewhere perhaps. I am a silent citizen of that vast faulty system and therefore ashamed.
He was after all right. He has often been right. It's the way he puts across his views that hurts and irritates but he is unquestionably correct. For a week or more, no national news has been more important than the coverage of this incident. Surely the news channels feasted and sometimes sensationalized but it has to be admitted this incident would have gone down as 'as yet another rape', 'yet another case of a rich brash son in his mercedes running over pavement dwellers', 'yet another corruption and steel/silver/wood/zinc/copper-gate scam'.
Well done media...
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