The rape epidemic in India. The prescription.

New post (228): The rape epidemic in India. The prescription.

I have a strong urge to puke when I watch debates on - "the subject".
No one has a SOLUTION/s to offer.

The “tadipaar” prescription

It’s time for – ACTION.

[The situation has gone way beyond inane expression/s of - "chinta and chintan" by politicians and NGO's - alike !]

Steps...

All phone calls to a specially designated number from rape victims and/or their kith and kin must be recorded and saved and registered on a data base. The local police station should automatically be immediately alerted to the information. So they can immediately approach the calling number.

A preliminary FIR must be filled in online on a prescribed form by a lawyer together with the rape victim and/or their kith and kin. This must be visible online at all levels of the police department with - oversight of a special cell in the home ministry.

Within a max of 10days if the action taken report (i.e. – statements recorded, medical examination done) is not filed online by the police then the preliminary FIR status must be automatically red flagged by the system to the status of a full FIR... Punitive action by department on the concerned police men must be automatic (computer generated suspensions of police personnel)

If a prima facie case is tenable, then - Between the 10^th -30^th calendar day……………

The suspects / culprits must be “moved” by invoking the “existing” - Tadipaar provision in law with the difference that the location should be an island in the Indian Ocean. To be guarded by the Indian navy routinely circumnavigating the island so escape/ friendly rescue is impossible.

(I quote- only to  explain what tadipaar means : Bigg Boss 4 winner Shweta Tiwari is getting a hard time from her former husband Raja Chaudhary, who has physically assaulted her for the fourth time in a year. Since it is fourth complaint by Shweta against Raja in the course of just one year, the police has now decided to extern (tadipaar) the actor, meaning that he won’t be allowed an entry into the city.)

A judicial review of the case must be initiated – in a court on a naval ship in the vicinity of the island - only after one year of tadipaar is completed.

If found guilty – the culprit must be left to stay on the island for an indeterminate time (not less than 10 years) after which until a panel of psychologist/psychiatrist do not clear the person for release he should not be transferred to the mainland...

If found not guilty – The "complainant" must be made to serve a 10+1 year term in a jail on the mainland.  

Footnote:

Rape should be cognizable - when a person is “touched” by another person (of same or another sex, irrespective of perpetrator being minor or major) against the person’s will and wishes to pursue legal recourse.

[The tadipaar prescription must not be applied to offenses such as - stalking etc. The critical difference being the involvement of (so much or little as a)- Touch]

END

Charlie Brown

Folks,

THE AUTHOR - "HAS ACHIEVED NIRVANA" (.)

I HAVE CLOSED THIS BLOG.
[The archives will remain available]

I will be back if /when the writing (sharing) bug bites (again).

Well, for the present - I am in a state of bliss !

Charlie Brown

Black holes, worm holes, white holes.

New post (226) : Black holes, worm holes, white holes.

I need help with understanding this ...(anybody ?)...

A wormhole is a theoretical entity allowed by Einstein's theory of general relativity in which space-time curvature connects two distant locations (or times).
The name wormhole was coined by American theoretical physicist John A. Wheeler in 1957, based on an analogy of how a worm could chew a hole from one end of an apple through the center to the other end, thus creating a "shortcut" through the intervening space.
The most common concept of a wormhole is an Einstein-Rosen bridge, first formalized by Albert Einstein and his colleague Nathan Rosen in 1935. In 1962, John A. Wheeler and Robert W. Fuller were able to prove that such a wormhole would collapse instantly upon formation, so not even light would make it through.
(A similar proposal was later resurrected by Robert Hjellming in 1971, when he presented a model in which a black hole would draw matter in while being connected to a white hole in a distant location, which expels this same matter.)
In a 1988 paper, physicists Kip Thorne and Mike Morris proposed since that such a wormhole could be made stable by containing some form of negative matter or energy (sometimes called exotic matter). Other types of traversible wormholes have also been proposed as valid solutions to the general relativity field equations.
Some solutions to the general relativity field equations have suggested that wormholes could also be created to connect different times, as well as distant space. Still other possibilities have been proposed of wormholes connecting to whole other universes.
There is still much speculation on whether it is possible for wormholes to actually exist and, if so, what properties they would actually possess.
Also Known As: Einstein-Rosen bridge, Schwarzschild wormhole, Lorentzian wormhole, Morris-Thorne wormhole

Examples:
Wormholes are best known for their appearance in science fiction. The television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, for example, largely focused on the existence of a stable, traversible wormhole that connected the "Alpha Quadrant" of our galaxy (which contains Earth) with the distant "Gamma Quadrant." Similarly, shows such as Sliders and Stargate have used such wormholes as the means of traveling to other universes or distant galaxies.

Such abstract theoretical physics applied to cosmology is - way way way beyond my comprehension. [But mighty interesting all the same.]

Charlie Brown

Congratulations Mr.Putin.

New post (225) : Congratulations Mr.Putin.

Ураааааааа!

Putin has remained Russia's dominant leader and it’s most popular politician since stepping aside in 2008 to make way for his ally, Medvedev, because he was barred from a third straight term by the constitution.
Putin, is a man of action and guardian of stability. He is the tough national leader the world's biggest country and energy producer needed.

Ураааааааа!

Those “outside” of the country who have been busy fomenting trouble on the "inside" and are now disappointed and unhappy can - "go suck on a bunch of sour grapes".

Charlie Brown

Tilak – the 3rd eye.

New post (224) : Tilak – the 3rd eye.

If/when in doubt - use the ring finger for applying tilak.

Tilak : (Hinduism) a colored spot or mark worn by Hindus, esp on the forehead, often indicating membership of a religious sect, caste, etc., or (in the case of a woman) marital status. [from Sanskrit tilaka]
Hindu scriptures have designated specific fingers for applying tilak for different occasions:

1. Applying tilak with anamika [ring finger] gives peace.
2. Applying tilak with the middle finger provides long life.
3. Tilak applied with the thumb provides strength.
[That is why vijay tilak [tilak wishing victory] is applied with the thumb.]
4. Tilak applied with the index finger gives moksha.
[That is why the tilak to a dead body is applied with the index finger and the index finger is also used for tilak during the pinda daan and the Shraddha karma.]

*** The little finger is never used for applying tilak.

So - If / when in doubt – “Use the ring finger for applying tilak”.

Charlie Brown

Kashmir perspectives : By "a migrant".

New post (223) : Kashmir perspectives : By "a migrant".

Reproduced below in support [but without the author's permission.]

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HOPE VS HOPE

OUR’S ALIVE, THEIR’S LOST

Alka Lahori

We are into 23rd year of exile where pain has turned panacea and wait for return longer, yet slender thread of Hope keep the memories of home alive. Home is where heart is and heart is where Hope is-- Hope of a sweet reunion with Home, or with own self, the ‘soul’ which refused to ‘migrate’ and has since remained trapped within the four walls, and every night, when conscious self goes to sleep, is wandering from corner to corner, meadows and cowsheds, as if looking for its lost nears and dears.

Exodus Day ( Jan 20th) brings alive the horror of that fateful night when loudspeakers perched atop mosques blared ominous messages for us ‘ Merge or Purge’, ‘we want Pakistan, with your women folk but not you’, ‘ we want Nizam-e-Mustafa’ etc. How I wish I were a painter, I would have recreated and frozen the pathos of the situation like this—Fleeing KP men, harried and dumbfound, barely holding the loosening turbans on to their heads, and tail end of KP women’s upper layer of long traditional head gear ‘Tarang’ flying in the air clutching girls tightly to the waist, frantically waving and imploring unresponsive bus driver and passing vehicles to take them to next safe destination; and gun toting Muslim neighbours cheering, jeering and spouting ... ‘final nail in your coffin’.

Indeed, final nail in the coffin it was meant to be. As a matter of fact they had been at this ‘hammering’ job for quite a long time— 1931, ‘51,’75 till the final push of 90’s, creating the Great Divide and turning it into between Them and Us.

Perhaps (mis)led by the theory that everything is fair in love and war, but the situation neither fitted in the bill of strict love nor war. It was outright brutal, it was treacherous and it was betrayal, which goes against the norms of the game of love and war. Almost every KP, who fled under the dark cover of that fateful night has a ‘Brutus, Yee too” story to tell. Blindfolded and gang-raped, Mrs. Ganjoo could recognize the voice of her neighbour as one among the culprits; it was the female neighbour who pointed Bal Krishen Ganjoo to militants hiding in a rice bin on his attic; it was again at the instance of their neighbours that militants came calling at Pt. Sarwanand Kaul Premi’s house only to create bloody mayhem later. It was either a neighbour, a close friend, a confidante or an office colleague who acted a la ‘Brutus’ to drill the ‘final nail’.

The night saw the murder of all that existed between Them and Us-- goodwill and trust, built over centuries of bonhomie and togetherness. After all the hapless community living on social fringes had yielded all the space, economic and political, in return for an unspoken and unwritten bond for a security cover if anything untoward happened. But the ‘Brutus’ act had undone that bond and broken the trust, and both went their separate ways.

But dead do resurrect from gave, as do the living dig a grave for themselves. For us these 23 years have been the journey of re-awakening and self-discovery, of rekindling faith in self and moving from despair to hope, from strength to strength and regaining self-esteem, we so carelessly had given up at the altar of communal harmony and India’s secularism. It has been a journey of great realization that we still have it in us to turn adversity into opportunity and write big success stories while in a state of exile. So in more than one ways we have turned tables on our coffin makers and doomsayers, who had written us off as people who would not survive the scorching heat of plains and melt away into dark corners of history.

And 23 years down the line, for them, as people, it has been a case of Situation Lost, where most of their dreams have come unstuck, hopes dashed and credibility down to dumps. The ‘movement’ they flagged off with gun-salutes has fizzled out midway, the gung-ho about a tango dance with Pakistan has gone awry, war cry for Azadi is non-starter; even unofficial partial Islamic system has brought more social malaises and miseries in its wake-- thrown up an ultra elite Upper Middle Class who merrily defy its code of conduct and rural poor following extremist ideology. Kashmir today is riven in middle and many layers down on economic and class lines-- a short distance away from what Pakistan is today, ready to explode.

END

The "tormented" have - arisen from the proverbial ashes !
While the "tormentors" are clutching at straws blowing in the wind.........

Charlie Brown

Nonsensical judgment by the idle.

New post (222): Nonsensical judgment by the idle.

A (very sad) case of different yardsticks…

A nun is a woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life. She may be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent.
The term "nun" is applicable to the Roman Catholics, Eastern Christians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Jains, Buddhists, and Taoists.
While in common usage the terms nun and sister are often used interchangeably, properly speaking a nun is a female religious who lives a contemplative life of prayer and meditation within a monastery while a sister (in the Christian religions) lives an active vocation of service to the needy, sick, poor, and uneducated.
Becoming a nun is a very devoted and vigorous process. It's about full surrender of yourself to God and his teachings.

When our nuns wear head cover and cover their bodies why then do we find that strange for Muslim women?

I am curious to know why we are talking about covered women in the Muslim community as if they are from planet-X while our nuns are covered exactly the same way.

All of this nonsensical judgment by the idle is…………nonsense.

Judge not for you too will be judged.

Live and let live.

Charlie Brown