Bihar elections!!

The number of communal tensions is directly proportional to the time left in elections.
Bihar me bahut tanav hai, lagta hai wahan chunav hai!!

Instigate communal riots, polarise the electorate and the vote bank is all yours!! Perfect recipe for elections.

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‘If it’s not beef, will they bring back my dead father?

Relatives mourn the death!!

Local villagers protested against the arrests and clashed with the police

A 50-year-old man in northern India has been killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.




On Monday night, after an announcement at a local temple that her family was consuming beef, 18-year-old Sajida had no inkling about how the next few hours would unfold. Minutes later, a mob surrounded and then ransacked her house before allegedly beating her 50-year-old father Mohammad Akhlaq to death. Her brother Danish, 22, is battling for life at a government hospital in Noida.

Wearing a white salwar-kameez stained with blood, Sajida pleads with a relative over the phone to save her brother: “I have lost my father. I cannot lose my brother. Please do everything possible to keep him alive.” 

Standing in her father’s room on the first floor, Sajida points to pieces of bricks near a broken bed, blood stains on the floor and on a loincloth which belonged to her father. A refrigerator in the next room has been broken and turned upside down, while a shattered mirror stands in one corner. “They dragged my brother and father outside the room and used bricks which they found under his bed to beat them. My father was taken outside the house and beaten to death. My brother was dragged to the courtyard downstairs and they used bricks to hit him on the head and chest, leaving him unconscious. They also tried to molest me and hit my grandmother on her face. They threatened to kill me if I said a word to the police,” Sajida says. It was only when the police reached the village around 10.30 pm that the attackers ran away. 

A rumour leads to a lynching

Around Sep 16: A calf goes missing from Bisara village, according to residents

Sep 28, noon: Rumours about remains of the calf being found near a field close to Mohammad Akhlaq’s house in Bisara spreads.
Rumour alleges Akhlaq was carrying beef in a polythene bag when dogs started chasing him. He threw the bag in a open field. Residents found remains of the calf in the bag

Sep 28, at about 9.30 pm: A group of 10 people reach a local temple, make an announcement relating to these rumours

Sep 28, 10-10.30 pm: A mob reaches Akhlaq’s house, beats him and his 22-year-old son, Danish. Ransacks the house.

Sep 28, 10.30-10.45 pm: Police reach Akhlaq’s house. Akhlaq found dead outside. Danish found unconscious inside. He is admitted to a government hospital in Noida, is critical

Sep 29 : In the wee hours of Tuesday, six Bisara residents are arrested in connection with the case

Sep 29, at about 9.30 am: Residents of villages in Dadri assemble near the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) office, hold demonstrations. Two police cars damaged while a bike is set ablaze. Protesters are lathi-charged. Heavy police deployment at the protest site.

Sep 29, at about 10 am: A 20-year-old welder who works at NTPC hit by a bullet, injuring his lower hip. Even as his family alleges a policeman fired the gun, police deny charges, say they are investigating the matter

Sep 29, at about 1 pm: Senior police officers held a meeting with residents, urge them to maintain peace

Sep 29, at about 5.30 pm: Last rites of Akhlaq performed in Bisara amid heavy police deployment

Sep 29, evening: A large number of policemen deployed at the site

This surely not the India that used to be before, and surely on the becoming a communal country with a cover put on every satanic side !!

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Nelson Mandela and apartheid!!

Those eyes tell a lot!!

On poverty in South Africa

"In South Africa, to be poor and black was normal, to be poor and white was a tragedy."
- 1994, Long Walk to Freedom

On dreaming big

"One day I will be the first black president of South Africa."
- 1952

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela became known and respected all over the world as a symbol of the struggle against apartheid and all forms of racism; the icon and the hero of African liberation.

Mandela or Madiba, as he was affectionately known, has been called a freedom fighter, a great man, South Africa's Favourite Son, a global icon and a living legend, among countless other names. He has been an activist, a political prisoner, South Africa's first democratically elected president, an international peacemaker and statesman, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

As a husband and a father, Mandela sacrificed the joys of family life and of seeing his children grow up. As a young man, he missed out on a normal life spent with family and friends and pursuing a career of his choice, to fight for the cause he unshakably stood for.

Most ordinary South Africans knew little about Mandela during his prison years, as the apartheid government suppressed information, and what was released was biased. Limited information about Mandela was available from the international press, anti-apartheid activist groups and the Free Nelson Mandela campaign.

But prison bars could not prevent him from continuing to inspire his people to struggle and sacrifice for their liberation. Public opinion polls repeatedly showed that he was the most popular leader the country has ever had. As the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group observed in 1986, he had become "a living legend", galvanising the resistance in his country.

He is the most honoured political prisoner in history. He has received prestigious international awards, the freedom of many cities and honorary degrees from several universities.

Musicians have been inspired to compose songs and music in his honour. Major international art exhibits have been dedicated to him and some of the most prominent writers have contributed to books for him and about him. Even an atomic particle has been named after him.

Mandela is a universal symbol of freedom and reconciliation, an icon representing the triumph of the human spirit. During his lifetime he not only dedicated himself to the struggle of the African people, but with his humility, and his spirit of forgiveness, he captured hearts and inspired people all over the world. As South Africans, we owe it to this great champion of our nation to continue to live by his example.

The prison years

For much of the latter half of the 1950s, Mandela was one of the 156 accused in the mammoth Treason Trial. After the Sharpeville Massacre on 21 March 1960, the ANC was outlawed, and Mandela, still on trial, was detained, along with hundreds of others.

The Treason Trial collapsed in 1961 as South Africa was being steered towards the adoption of a republic. With the ANC now illegal, the leadership picked up the threads from its underground headquarters and Nelson Mandela emerged as the leading figure in this new phase of struggle.

Forced to live apart from his family, moving from place to place to evade detection by the Government's ubiquitous informers and police spies, Mandela had to adopt a number of disguises. Sometimes dressed as a labourer, Politicsat other times as a chauffeur, his successful evasion of the police earned him the title of the Black Pimpernel.

It was during this time that he, together with other leaders of the ANC, constituted a new section of the liberation movement, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), as an armed nucleus with a view to preparing for armed struggle, with Mandela as its commander-in-chief.

In 1962, Mandela left the country as "David Motsamayi", and travelled abroad for several months. In Ethiopia, he addressed the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa, and was warmly received by senior political leaders in several countries, including the then Tanganyika, Senegal, Ghana and Sierra Leone. He also spent time in London. During this trip, Mandela met with the first group of 21 MK recruits on their way to Addis Ababa for guerrilla training.

Not long after his return to South Africa, Mandela was arrested, on 5 August, and charged with illegal exit from the country, and incitement to strike.

Mandela was convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment. He was transferred to Robben Island in May 1963 only to be brought back to Pretoria again in July.

Not long afterwards, he encountered Thomas Mashifane, the foreman from Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia where MK had set up their headquarters. He knew then that their hide-out had been discovered. A few days later, he and 10 others were charged with sabotage.

The Rivonia Trial, as it came to be known, lasted eight months.

Mandela's statement in court during the trial is a classic in the history of the resistance to apartheid, and has been an inspiration to all who have opposed it. He ended with these words: "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

All but two of the accused were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on 12 June 1964. The black prisoners were flown secretly to Robben Island immediately after the trial was over to begin serving their sentences.

In March 1982, after 18 years, he was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town (with Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Andrew Mlangeni) and in December 1988, he was moved to the Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, from where he was eventually released. While in prison, Mandela flatly rejected offers made by his jailers for remission of sentence in exchange for accepting the bantustan policy by recognising the independence of the Transkei and agreeing to settle there. Again in the 1980s, Mandela and others rejected an offer of release on condition that he renounce violence.

Nevertheless, Mandela did initiate talks with the apartheid regime in 1985, when he wrote to then Minister of Justice, Kobie Coetsee. They first met later that year when Mandela was hospitalised for prostate surgery. Shortly after this, he was moved to a single cell at Pollsmoor and this gave Mandela the chance to start a dialogue with the Government – which took the form of "talks about talks". Throughout this process, he was adamant that negotiations could only be carried out by the full ANC leadership.

Released on 11 February 1990, Mandela plunged wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after being banned for decades, Nelson Mandela was elected president of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's national chairperson.

In a life that symbolises the triumph of the human spirit, Nelson Mandela accepted the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize (along with FW de Klerk) on behalf of all South Africans who suffered and sacrificed so much to bring peace to our land.

The era of apartheid formally came to an end on 27 April 1994, when Nelson Mandela voted for the first time in his life – along with his people. However, long before that date, it had become clear, even before the start of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) negotiations at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, that the ANC was increasingly charting the future of South Africa.

Rolihlahla Nelson Dalibunga Mandela was inaugurated as President of a democratic South Africa on 10 May 1994. In his inauguration speech, he said: "We dedicate this day to all the heroes and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many ways and surrendered their lives so that we could be free. Their dreams have become reality. Freedom is their reward. We are both humbled and elevated by the honour and privilege that you, the people of South Africa, have bestowed on us, as the first President of a united, democratic, non-racial and non-sexist government."

In June 1999, Nelson Mandela retired from the Presidency of South Africa. But although he retired as President of South Africa, he worked tirelessly, campaigning globally for peace, children and the fight against HIV/Aids in particular.

Shortly before his 86th birthday in June 2004, Mandela officially retired from public life. However, he did not retreat from working for the good of the world – as a testimony to his sharp political intellect, wisdom and unrelenting commitment to make the world a better place, Mandela formed the prestigious group of Elders, an independent group of eminent global leaders, who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace-building, help address major causes oh human suffering and promote the shared interest of humanity.

His fight against apartheid and racial segregation lead to the vision of South Africa as a rainbow nation in which all people were to be treated equally regardless of color.Speaking in 1990 on his release from Pollsmoor Prison after 27 years behind bars, Mandela said "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and a free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunity. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Fight against apartheid

Racial segregation triggered mass protests and civil disobedience campaigns, in which Mandela played a central role. After the ANC was banned in 1961, Mandela founded its military wing "Umkonto we Sizwe" (The Spear of the Nation). As its commander-in-chief, he led underground guerrilla attacks against state institutions.

He secretly went abroad in 1962 to drum up financial support and organize military training for ANC cadres. On his return, he was arrested and sentenced to prison. Mandela served 17 years on the notorious Roben Island, off Cape Town.

Cell number five, where he was incarcerated, is now a tourist attraction. From 1988 onwards, Mandela was slowly prepared for his release from prison. Just three years earlier he had rejected a pardon which was conditional on the ANC renouncing violence.

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Dalits: Long forgotten, still recovering!!

 

They too have dreams in their eyes, just dreams!!

Who are the Dalits?

There are 165 million Dalits in India-about 1/6th of the total population. Dalit means "broken people."Dalits were formerly known as "untouchables." Dalits live at the bottom of India's rigid social order known as the caste system.

What is the caste system?

The caste system originated around 7 A.D.Caste is determined by birth, not race.Caste is based upon the Hindu belief that a person's position in life is based upon the good deeds and sins of their past life.Caste determines Indians' spouses, friends, occupations and residence.

Isn't Untouchability illegal?

The preamble to the Indian Constitution proclaims the goals of social justice and equality.Article 14 sets forth the principal of equality and prohibits discrimination in employment and education.The Constitution does not set forth a casteless society as a national goal.No law has been passed abolishing untouchability.The practice of untouchability is a punishable offense, but the law is rarely enforced.

What does it mean to be a Dalit in India today?

Dalits endure segregation in housing, schools and access to public services.

Dalits are denied access to land, forced to work in degrading conditions and are routinely abused by the police and upper-caste members.Dalits suffer discrimination in education, health care, housing, property, freedom of religion, free choice of employment, and equal treatment before the lawDalits suffer routine violations of their right to life and security of person through state-sponsored or sanctioned acts of violence, including torture.Dalits suffer caste-motivated killings, rapes and other abuses on a daily basis.Between 2001-2002 there were 58,000 registered egregious abuses against Dalits and Tribals.2005 government report stated there is a crime committed against a Dalit every 20 minutes.Dalits comprise most of the agricultural, bonded and child laborers in the country.2007 government report found 77% of all Indians live on less than $.50 a day and most of them were Dalits.Dalit women face additional discrimination and abuse, including sexual abuse by the police and upper caste men, forced prostitution, and discrimination in employment and wages.Dalit children face continuous hurdles in education. They are made to sit in the back of classrooms and endure verbal and physical harassment from teachers and other students. The effect of such abuses is confirmed by the low literacy and high drop-out rates for Dalits.

Crimes against dalits rise 245% in last decade

CHANDIGARH: Crimes and atrocities against dalits in Haryana have gone up by about two-and-a-half times during 2004-2013, compared to 1994-2003 period.

Figures complied by National Confederation of Dalit Organizations (NACDOR) from National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports suggest amanifold increase in the number of cases related to assault, murder and sexual assault of Dalit women, especially incidents of gang rapes, over the past four years.
According to data released by NACDOR, a total of 3,198 cases related to atrocities on dalits have been registered between 2004 and 2013 as against 1,305 from 1994 to 2003. Haryana DGP S N Vashisht admitted to the increase in crime against dalits.
"But this is not a reflection of increase in crime or atrocities against a particular community. Rather, it means that every incident is reported and cases are registered. Secondly, there had been amendments in Acts related to atrocities on dalits, which also result in registration of more cases. Timely challans against the accused in the court and strong prosecution are basic ingredients for speedy justice and conviction," Vashisht said. On the contrary, Dalit leaders termed the increase as an outcome of accused-friendly policing, leading to lopsided investigations and poor prosecution and poor follow-up of cases. Some organizations working for Dalit welfare even termed atrocities as a ploy of upper caste sections to deprive the socially backward from getting good education.
Ashok Bharti, national convener, NACDOR, said, "This has forced us to start an awareness drive. We have been raising this issue with Congress leaders and Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda."
Kalyani Menon Sen, an activist attached with NGO Women against Sexual Violence and Repression (WSS), justified her allegations saying, "Dalit children going to government schools in villages are the first layer of victims. They stop going to school after any girl falls victim to such a crime. They are not rich enough to go to any other school. Hence, they will remain educationally backward. Once they are educationally backward, they will not be able to compete with upper caste or those socially superior to them. Hence, sexual offences against dalits are being used as a tool now."
Rajat Kalsan, an activist of National Human Rights Law Network, elaborated on the incidents where they had to fight for justice for dalits. Kalsan had pleaded the cases related to Dabra and Baghana rape victims.

Why atrocities against dalits and adivasis continue?

Denial of justice   to dalits (scheduled castes) and adivasis (scheduled tribes) and violence   directed at them continues in India today despite official policies   and declarations to the contrary. Considerable physical violence is   inflicted on members of these deprived and marginalised communities   as substantiated by official reports. Policing, far from being ‘the   professional imposition of a coherent moral consensus on society’   is an intensely political activity with policemen often facilitating   and participating in the violence not just against these two communities   but against minorities, other weaker sections and women.  

The case studies   cited in the National Commission’s report, however, revealed disquieting   features such as delay in reporting crimes against SCs and STs, or failure   to register such crimes, delay in visits to the scene of the offence   and delays in chargesheeting the accused. Only IPC and CrPC sections   were usually cited in chargesheets, omitting the provisions of social   legislations. Cases took ages to be disposed of in court and the number   of acquittals was very high. Often, the guardians of the law were themselves   perpetrators of ‘atrocities’. The study took note of five such cases,   four of them relating to custodial rape. 

The worst case was one of gang-rape   of a 16-year-old girl, leading to her death from injuries. When crimes   were committed by the police, the police machinery was often misused   to protect the perpetrators and to obstruct investigation.

Two sisters ordered to be raped? Shame on you India

Recently, international media brought to light the case of of 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumar, one of two sisters sentenced to be raped after their brother had eloped with a married woman from a higher caste.

Meenakshi and her younger sister were with their family in Delhi for a wedding when a neighbour called them, telling them not to return to their village as a village council, Khap Panchayat, dominated mostly by upper caste Jat men, had ordered the two young women to be raped and paraded naked with their faces blackened as punishment for their brother’s misdeeds. 

Meenakshi was quoted as saying, “I can’t sleep, I’m very scared.”

Their brother, Ravi Kumar, 25, from a Dalit caste was romantically involved with 21-year-old Krishna, a Jat, for nearly two years. When both families discovered this, they did all they could to keep the lovers apart. 

This is what India is all about, you have the chance of closing your eyes as all is going well with you and your loved ones, but yes others are suffering!! 

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My Mother Was Murdered, I Have All The Evidences But No One Is Listening, Claims Ishita Arora!!

*At this stage, we request everyone to not to draw any conclusions as we have just Ishita’s version of the story. We request local officials and mainstream media to look into the case.

A lot of our community members messaged us and asked to cover the story of Ishita Arora. As soon as we came across her post, we messaged to Ishita for more details and are awaiting a revert. Ishita claims she has all the evidence against those who tortured and killed her mother.

Seeing the urgency of the situation we request the mainstream media to look into the issue as soon as possible. We also request everyone, if you have any details associated with this case, please let us know.

Here’s what Ishita Arora has posted on her Facebook timeline –

“MY MOTHER WAS KILLED
Dr. Sunita Arora, my revered mother and a Doctor since last 30+ years in Samalkha (Panipat, Haryana) was killed yesterday night by 5 Government Officials and Doctors of Panipat. We have the evidences of physical torture, eye-witness and camera recording against the Murderers. Yet No Goverment Official is arresting the killers. I would be highly greatful to each and every one who will help me reach this message to the highest officials of the GoI and help us arrest the killers. Please share this post on your wall and spread the message like fire. WE DESERVE JUSTICE.”

-Posted by Ishita Arora on Saturday, September 19, 2015

Here’s a news report by The Tribune. According to Tribune:

Her Mother is a lady doctor and died during a raid conducted  by the Health Department authorities at her clinic in Samalkha, on 18th September. Health Department team raided the clinic last night on a tip off that an illegal abortion was being carried. After talking to a woman at the clinic, the team started questioning BAMS Dr Sunita, who reportedly collapsed, said Samalkha DSP Gorakhpal Rana.

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India on top in exporting beef & Beef ban in Indian state : Deceitful actions!!

Beef Export

India retains its top spot as the world’s largest exporter of beef, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and has extended its lead over the next highest exporter, Brazil. 
 India itself accounts for 23.5 per cent of global beef exports. This is up from a 20.8 per cent share last year.

Country's 1.2 billion people - regard cows as divine.

On one side where India is on the top in terms of beef export, the other side same people involved(directly or indirectly) are trying to impose ban on beef in India, which constitutes the meal of a major part of daily wage workers in many southern parts of India.
Curiously, India's beef exports comprise almost entirely water buffalo meat (carabeef) as cow slaughter is banned in most places. As per the figures of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda), the beef exports totaled 14,49,759 tonne worth Rs 26,458 crore last year.

            Putting the brakes on India’s beef industry isn’t as easy as it sounds.

As religious groups mourn the sacrilege of cow slaughter—urban, well-traveled Indians are developing a taste for beef.

It is estimated that almost two million cows are smuggled across a 2,400-mile poorly-patrolled border from India into Bangladesh every year. Inside India's borders, people dodge the law by smuggling cows to states where there are little or no penalties for cow slaughter. Rajhans says that India has about 3,600 legal slaughterhouses and 30,000 illegal ones, many of which slaughter cows.

Beef Ban

There is a complete ban on cow slaughter in 13 Indian states, 6 states have ban on cow slaughter but allow bullock slaughter with certificate, 3 states allow cow slaughter with a certificate.

Recently Maharashtra banned beef with a punishment of 5 years jail and Rs 10000 fine for possession or sale.

Haryana will soon ban beef following Maharshtra.

But the question here is why doesn't the government stop beef export in first place?

The answer is that beef export is major source of income to India, where the government can not easily stop the beef export. Other consequences include that illegal export may start, already there's a rise in the beef consumption even in the states where its banned.

One rule that is always followed by humans is that the more they are suppressed to a particular thing, the more they are attracted and get curious towards the issue.

Other major controversies that are associated with the beef ban include communal tensions between communities, where a large part of Muslim and Christian community consumes beef; whereas major part Hindu and Jain community abstain from beef as its divine for them.

India’s rapidly growing beef industry is a political issue, especially during elections when the country is divided along cultural, religious, and political lines: Muslims and Hindus, left versus right, beef-eating Hindus versus non-beef eating Hindus. “Politicians take a stand on the issue just as they take a stand on any issue of public concern,” says Joshipura. “A politician's position on the matter would determine how much support he or she would get and from whom.”

The truth is that common people have different opinion than that of politicians and ruling bodies.

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Anuradha Koirala: Crusader Against Sex Trafficking!!

“The clandestine nature of human trafficking continues to make it difficult to prevent and rescue potential victims.”

After years of abuse, violence and three miscarriages, her relationship with her husband ended.   To be a middle-class Nepalese female, (back in the 80’s) earning a basic living as an English teacher and DIVORCED, life would have been at a significant low.   But put in her words “my life’s purpose and responsibility completely changed”. Anuradha Koirala’s courageous journey at that point began…

Anuradha put a portion of her $100 monthly salary to start a small retail shop to employ and support displaced victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence.  By the early 90’s she realised that there is a lot more that needed to be done which compelled the creation of Maiti Nepal which was formed by Anuradha along with a group of professionals consisting of teachers, journalists and social workers.

Having started Maiti Nepal 20 years ago, in a small house in Kathmandu with her own savings, today Koirala is a widely recognized activist and lecturer who has dedicated her life to combating the trafficking and exploitation of women and children.

Through her organization, the former teacher and daughter of an Indian Army Officer has helped rescue and rehabilitate more than 12,000 Nepali girls and prevent 45,000 children and women from being trafficked at the Indian-Nepal border since 1993. Hundreds of offenders have been sentenced to jail through the joint efforts of Maiti Nepal and the police.

“Just imagine what would happen if your daughter was standing there. What would you do, how would you fight? So you have to join hands, you have to take each child as your daughter. Soon you will feel their sorrow and then you will feel the strength that comes out of you to protect them.”

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Gorked Indian Politicians: Forgive Men for Rape; Hang Women

 “No parents in our Indian culture would agree if their daughter goes out with another man and indulges in something wrong. “Both should be hanged,” Mr. Azmi was quoted as telling the Mid-Day newspaper.

 “They are boys. Mistakes happen,” Mr. Yadav told a crowd of supporters. “We will try and change these laws.” Mulayam Singh Yadav was    referring to the death sentences handed out to      three men for gang-raping a photojournalist          last year."Boys commit mistakes: Will they be hanged for rape?"

 

Mr. Yadav and Mr. Azmi join a long list of politicians and public figures who have said women share the blame in cases of sexual assault. Some have pointed to short  skirts, others to western influence.

                                                                          “This is a social crime which depends on men and women. Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong,“ said Gaur, the home minister responsible for law and order in the  state of Madhya Pradesh.

The TMC leader went on a rant saying, "As long as the Earth exists, there will be rapes." He went on to say, "Rapes have happened in the past and will continue to happen."
TMC's Tapas Pal had hit the headlines when he had threatened to get the wives and daughters of opposition CPI-M members raped. Pal had said, "Earlier, you guys have bullied me on various occasions. If you insult the mothers and daughters of Trinamool workers. Then I won't spare you. I will let loose my boys in your homes and they will commit rape. I will teach each of you a lesson."

Satyadev Katare, Congress leader in MP: "Jab tak mahila tirchi najar se nahi dekhegi, tab tak purush use nahi chedega" (No man will harass a woman till she looks at him in a suggestive manner)"

The Anjuman Muslim Panchayat in Salumbur town in Rajasthan decreed that girls should not use mobile phones outside their own homes or dance at weddings so that “they do not get involved with boys".

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee: Earlier if men and women would hold hands, they would get caught by parents and reprimanded but now everything is so open. It’s like an open market with open options. Rapes happen because men and women interact freely.

Jamaat-E-Islami Hind Secretary General Nusrat Ali: Co-education should be abolished and proper education facilities meant exclusively for women should be available at all level of education. Educational institutions should prescribe sober and dignified dress for girls.

Jitendar Chattar, leader of a Khap Panchayat: To my understanding, consumption of fast food contributes to such incidents. Chowmein leads to hormonal imbalance evoking an urge to indulge in such acts.

Congress MP Abhijit Mukherjee, son of President Pranab Mukherjee: Those who claim to be students – I can see many beautiful women among them – highly dented-painted [sic] – they’re giving interviews on TV, they’ve brought their children to show them the scenes. I have grave doubts whether they’re students, because women of that age are generally not students.

Abu Asim Azmi, state president of the Maharashtra Samajwadi Party: I support death penalty for the Delhi rapists but there should also be a law that women should not wear less clothes and roam around with boys who are not their relatives. What is the need for roaming at night with men who are not relatives? This should be stopped.

Asaram Bapu, self-proclaimed godman: She (Delhi gangrape victim) should have taken God’s name and could have held the hand of one of the men and said ‘I consider you as my brother’, and should have said to the other two ‘Brother I am helpless, you are my brother, my religious brother."

Dharambir Goyat, Haryana Congress leader: I don’t feel any hesitation in saying that 90 per cent of the girls want to have sex intentionally but they don’t know that they would be gang raped.

Maybe politicians should not waste their time on deciding what or how girls should live or behave, rather they should focus on the betterment of the country. Maybe!!

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Cops in India!!

Abuse of power by cop!!

For the last 35 years, Krishna Kumar has been sitting outside the General Post Office in Lucknow, barely earning Rs. 50 by typing in Hindi on his old typewriter.

It was just another day at work for the 65-year-old typist on Saturday morning, when a sub-inspector, Pradeep Kumar, reportedly asked him to vacate the spot.

When Mr Kumar, who works at the same place some 10 hours a day, protested, the irate sub-inspector reportedly abused the elderly man and kicked the typewriter repeatedly till it broke into pieces.

The brazen cop, undeterred, then reportedly bragged in front of local reporters who caught the incident on camera.

"India is modernizing rapidly, but the police continue to use their old methods: abuse and threats," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "It's time for the government to stop talking about reform and fix the system."

Another case where policemen showed their humble nature towards others:

A fruit vendor in Varanasi described how police tortured him to extract confessions to multiple, unrelated false charges:

"[M]y hands and legs were tied; a wooden stick was passed through my legs. They started beating me badly on the legs with lathis (batons) and kicking me. They were saying, ‘You must name all the members of the 13-person gang.' They beat me until I was crying and shouting for help. When I was almost fainting, they stopped the beating. A constable said, ‘With this kind of a beating, a ghost would run away. Why won't you tell me what I want to know?' Then they turned me upside down... They poured water from a plastic jug into my mouth and nose, and I fainted."

There are more cases waiting to be be revealed about the misuse of power by cops in India but are often suppressed by the cops themselves and common people do suffer, endless beating of innocents is one of the common ways adopted by the policemen!!

Hope that they were atleast a little humane in their way of work!

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This American woman cried while taking photographs in India!!!

Picture worth thousand words!

This is true India where a major part strives hard for a survival, this is certainly not what we should have been.
Where life takes different turns daily and even survival of animals is way more easy than in some cases of humans.

Even though we may have reached moon still are unable to fill stomachs of those millions living on streets, where actors get paid in crores for advertisements and farmers commit suicide every half an hour, where a mother leaves hes baby under the sun to work for 12 hours, where we have Antilia house worth $1 billion but still crores live in severe poverty.

Where we are kind enough to care for our close ones but forget that woman who's been working near our house, where we may have been technologically  advancing everyday but still lagging behind to care for our poor brothers!!

For them neither a Facebook status nor an Instagram photo matters, but bread 2 times a day does!!

Thanks to all of our kindness that a major part of our society is still living under our soles or maybe we have been ignorant enough to let them live on their own!! Maybe!!

Welcome to India!!

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Kelly Anne Bates: Left world at 17!!

A mother whose teenage daughter was tortured to death by her sadistic lover has spoken for the first time of her heartbreak.

Margaret Bates, from Mottram, Tameside, said she is still unable to read the autopsy report detailing the 150 injuries her 17-year-old daughter Kelly-Anne suffered at the hands of her violent lover James Smith.

Too traumatised to speak about her only daughter's death until now, Mrs Bates, 60, said she is consumed by one thought - that she wished she had killed Smith when she first met him. 

Over three barbaric weeks, Smith burnt Kelly-Anne with an iron, scalded her with boiling water and even gouged out her eyes.

Smith also tied her to a radiator by her hair, broke her arm and knees and stabbed her all over her body with knives, forks and scissors, causing 150 separate injuries before beating her with a shower head and drowning her in the bath.

Throughout the horrific onslaught, the terrified teenager was alive, begging for mercy.

Smith, who was then 49, got life imprisonment and must serve a minimum of 25 years for his horrific crimes.

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of Kelly-Anne's death, but Mrs Bates said even with the passage of time, she and her husband Tommy, 66, are unable to read the post-mortem report which details the injuries their daughter endured.

Sadistic killer James Smith

In the weeks before her death, Kelly-Anne endured unimaginable torture while her family - terrified of pushing her even further into Smith’s clutches - waited by the phone.

'In April, I got a Mother's Day card from Kelly in Smith's handwriting and I'd had enough,' she said.

'But I was torn; I didn't want to keep going round there because I thought it was making things worse.

'It haunts me to think if we had gone round there she would be alive today.'

Mrs Bates said she contacted the police domestic violence unit and was encouraged to give her daughter its leaflets. Tragically, Mrs Bates was never to see Kelly-Anne again and said she still has the leaflets to this day.

On April 16, 1996, Mrs Bates said police arrived to tell them that Kelly-Anne was dead. 

Kelly-Anne had been starved and had lost more than three stone in weight.

Kelly-Anne gets to grips with crutches after injuring herself as a teenager

Maybe she could have lived longer, but such are women: packed with tolerance and honesty!!

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LGBT rights in Nepal!!

After almost eight years of deliberations and often bitter debate, the Constituent Assembly (parliament) of Nepal overwhelmingly endorsed a groundbreaking new constitution on September 16. The constitution will come into force on September 20 when President Ram Baran Yadav officially promulgates it in a ceremony at parliament.

Nepal’s new constitution is the first in Asia to explicitly mention the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Nepal now joins a handful of countries around the world such as South Africa (1996) and Ecuador (1998) that provide protections for LGBT people in their national constitutions.
This is Nepal’s first constitution as a federal republic following the dissolution of the 239-year-old monarchy by a parliamentary vote in 2008. It contains several articles that enshrine protections and rights for LGBT people.

• Article 12 states that citizens will be allowed to choose their preferred gender identity on their citizenship document. The choices available are male, female or other.
• Article 18 states that gender and sexual minorities will not be discriminated against by the state and by the judiciary in the application of laws. It further adds that the government may make special provisions through laws to protect, empower and advance the rights of gender and sexual minorities and other marginalized and minority groups.
• Article 42 lists gender and sexual minorities among the groups that have a right to participate in state mechanisms and public services to promote inclusion.

“This new Constitution makes clear that we can be proud of our LGBT identities, and that we can be proud citizens of Nepal,” said Sunil Babu Pant, founder of Blue Diamond Society and Asia’s first openly gay federal member of parliament. “This victory is just the beginning of our long road towards full equality. We are ready to move beyond the discrimination, violence and exclusion of the past, and continue with even greater integrity, responsibility and dedication to contribute to the nation-building process. We will be working together with Nepali and international allies to build our nation, a ‘new, inclusive and prosperous Nepal’.”

The new constitution explicitly states that “sexual and gender minorities” (SGM) cannot be discriminated against by the state or the judiciary. There is no direct mention of same-sex marriage in the new constitution, but all issues related to marriage in general will be handled in the civil code, which will be revised in the future. Notably, in South Africa, constitutional protections were used as a necessary pathway towards full marriage equality, which could happen in Nepal. With equality enshrined in the constitution, the document provides important legal avenues for LGBT activists fighting to pursue full equality without fear of repercussions.

India still has a long way to go and must learn from its neighbours!!

Maybe one day the definition of love will change in India also!!

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