(Feb 10, 1:45am)
So he was hanged because, not withstanding the absence of any direct involvement, not withstanding the Apex Court's observation that there was no evidence that Mohammed Afzal belonged to any terrorist group or organisation, not withstanding that the circumstantial evidences against him - not too often used to award life sentences, leave alone execution - were if anything, insufficient and incoherent, the "collective conscience" of the Indian nation deemed this necessary... Wondering who and what contribute to and constitute our collective conscience?? Herds of under-educated, under informed right wing activists, with no proper knowledge and hence no proper judgement and/or understanding of the vast and intricate and centuries-old issues plaguing a conflict region, but still, as though by some divine ordinance, have appropriated the power to act as judges?? Or, a well organised media mafia, with bosses as disagreeable and as authoritarian as Arnab Goswami, which more often than not operate as a machinery for state propaganda rather than serve as platform for the oppressed?? And also, if collective conscience were so paramount in this nation, then why single out just one person??? Wouldn't the collective conscience of the minorities in Gujarat, or the Sikhs in Delhi, would have - in fact must have - desired a similar fate for their respective perpetrators??? But as history has it, and as the near future would most likely have it -we allowed one such perpetrator to be our Prime Minister, and will most surely allow the other one too in 2014!!!!! @State Hypocrisy
XXX
So he was hanged because, not withstanding the absence of any direct involvement, not withstanding the Apex Court's observation that there was no evidence that Mohammed Afzal belonged to any terrorist group or organisation, not withstanding that the circumstantial evidences against him - not too often used to award life sentences, leave alone execution - were if anything, insufficient and incoherent, the "collective conscience" of the Indian nation deemed this necessary... Wondering who and what contribute to and constitute our collective conscience?? Herds of under-educated, under informed right wing activists, with no proper knowledge and hence no proper judgement and/or understanding of the vast and intricate and centuries-old issues plaguing a conflict region, but still, as though by some divine ordinance, have appropriated the power to act as judges?? Or, a well organised media mafia, with bosses as disagreeable and as authoritarian as Arnab Goswami, which more often than not operate as a machinery for state propaganda rather than serve as platform for the oppressed?? And also, if collective conscience were so paramount in this nation, then why single out just one person??? Wouldn't the collective conscience of the minorities in Gujarat, or the Sikhs in Delhi, would have - in fact must have - desired a similar fate for their respective perpetrators??? But as history has it, and as the near future would most likely have it -we allowed one such perpetrator to be our Prime Minister, and will most surely allow the other one too in 2014!!!!! @State Hypocrisy
XXX
No comments:
Post a Comment