The disease of trying to malign the victims in cases of rape is actually nothing new. We have seen this crap in so many Bollywood potboilers like Damini etc. And politicians from Goa are pretty good at it. Even in the case of Scarlett Keeling who was murdered in the city politicians tried to paint her mother as a characterless woman who did not take care of her child as a result of which she was raped and murdered. Whether the rapes are part of a plan by a section of Goans to limit the influence of foreigners in Goa or not may not be very clear as of now but I sure have very serious doubts that it is. Well if it is, I must say that this is a very poor plan. Not only is this criminal but it can also backfire. Imagine if Russians strike back at Indian women in Goa themselves or pay other criminals to do this dirty job for them. Like I said, it’s a very poor plan. As it is the Goan govt itself feels that Goa is fast becoming the rape capital of the country.

Posted on December 18th, 2009 under India calling. Tags: BJP, comment, Congress, fernandes, goa, rape, remark, Russian. Comments: 7

As you can see things in the valley are still pretty bad. The violence levels may have come down but the people of Kashmir still have very little faith in the establishment. It is this lack of faith which is used by Hurriyat and parties like PDP to exploit any given situation to their advantage using innocent civilians as the rallying point. Omar would do well to ensure that his govt undertakes this as their main agenda for governance. He needs to transcend his sincerity into action for the people to see for themselves. Sincerity alone does not really count for much.

Posted on December 17th, 2009 under India calling. Tags: emotions, Kashmir, murder, Omar, pdp, Protest, rape, shopian. Comments: 6

Whether the promise of work by Madhur Bhandarkar impinged upon the freedom/willingness to have sex on the part of Preeti Jain is a question which needs to be answered. Another question which she needs to answer is whether she liked what she did with him or not? In other words whether she enjoyed the whole activity or not? I know I’m being very crass here but these are relevant questions. And I’m pretty sure she would not have done it sixteen times with him if she did not like it. Fact is that all this technical stuff is rather misleading. It can confuse the hell out of not just us but judges, lawyers and linguistic experts as well. What is in fact not confusing is the fact that she was just ‘using’ her body to get work in return.

Posted on November 14th, 2009 under Feelings, India calling. Tags: Bhandarkar, Bollywood, court, Madhur, Movies, Preeti, rape, role, Sex. Comments: 12

Anand Jon’s sister is lobbying hard with the Indian govt so that they may somehow intervene in this whole thing and influence the American govt in giving some relief to her brother. But tell you what? I seriously don’t think that our govt should intervene at all, despite the fact that Anand may have been a victim of racism.

Posted on September 2nd, 2009 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: Anand, conviction, crime, jail, Jon, rape, trial. Comments: 9

I’m quite sure that Rita Bahuguna had no idea whatsoever what the hell was Prevention of Atrocities Act of 1989 (SC/ST). She never knew that merely saying what she did was enough for her to be sent to jail

Posted on July 16th, 2009 under India calling. Tags: Bahuguna, compensation, conduct, crime, Mayawati, rape, Rita, victim, women. Comments: 8

Now here’s what I think happened. Firstly I partly agree with Anupam that Shiney is not a rapist, not a conventional rapist at least. I don’t think it was a case of Shiney attacking the maid just because she was alone in the house with him. To me it seems that both Shiney and the maid had a liking for each other and they must have engaged in ‘innocent’ romance on the sly in the past few days.

Posted on June 19th, 2009 under Feelings, India calling. Tags: Ahuja, guilty, maid, punish, rape, Sex, Shiney. Comments: 6

I don’t know but is there a provision for him to change his running mate? Can he do that? In case there is, I feel making amends right now would be much better than going ahead with Palin. In my opinion he’ll only improve his chances by replacing Palin with a White Caucasian Male who is much younger and more qualified than Palin, preferably an economist.

Posted on October 12th, 2008 under Track the world. Tags: Abortion, attack, brave, Caucasian, Change, charms, choice, Commissioner, control, damage, decision, dumb, economist, economy, foreign policy, healthcare, heart, incest, male, McCain, obama, pain, Pakistan, Palin, practical, pragmatic, Pregnancy, probe, public, qualified, racist, rape, replace, right wing, safety, Sarah, sick, tables, troopergate, understand, veep, votes, Walt Monegan, White, woman, younger. Comments: 1