It has been a long and a struggle for us, women, to reach where we have reached today. In times of woman empowerment it is indeed sad and shameful to see some amoral, religiously biased political group of goons physically assault women, that to in public domain. The recent mayhem in Mangalore showed the face of woman exploitation at its very worst.
Shri Ram Sena, a self-proclaimed morality preaching, political group, based in Karnataka, physically abused a group of youngsters, mainly women, who were enjoying themselves at a local lounge bar. The incident took place at the evening of the eve of the 26th of January which marks the celebration of 60 years of the Indian Republic. It all unravelled when the Ram Sainiks broke into the lounge bar ‘Amnesia’ and attacked the youngsters; their crime: stepping out of the ‘doctrine of Morality’.
The full sham was caught on camera. At the eve of Republic Day it was a shocker to see how some corrupted politicians misuse the power we have entrusted upon them. Those poor girls at the lounge bar were attacked with a volley of tight slaps and painful hair-pulling. The sights at the venue left us cringing and thinking ‘Are we safe?’
This incident left the woman activist groups enraged and seeking answers as to who gave these people the right to outrage a woman’s modesty in public. “We will not tolerate this. If they have the right to police women this way…I have an even greater right to police them” said an agitated Minister Of Woman & Child Health, Mrs Renuka Chowdhury. A lot of television news channels termed this incident as ‘talibanisation’. When confronted about it, the founder of Shri Ram Sena ,Pramod Muthalik, frankly dismissed any eventuality of an apology. According to him, it was a noble cause of spreading morality but it was carried on in a wrong manner. This gentleman even went on to term this as a minor issue which was enlarged by the media. It seems to these people that we are blind.
So where do women go from here? Even a bagatelle of a move out of so-called evangel of morality will have us brutally beaten up in public! The percepts of political moral policing are getting unfair by the day. We talk of Talibanisation of Pakistan and just how ridiculous it is; but I guess it is high time we look into our own homeland where something quite similar to Talibanisation is growing and growing fast.
Woman Developement is a chaplet for India. This kind of exploitation not only insults womanhood but also subjects India to shame and hinders its path towards development. It is high time that we do away with these kinds of incidents for we want our country to be a better and a safer place where everyone lives in harmony and no one feels the need for any kind of brutality.
Suhasini Mitra
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the whole incident has been very rightly termed as ‘talibanisation’. it is unbeleivable to what level the politicians of our country can stoop down .it will not be unfair to even state that the most uneducated and narrow minded people make up most of our government today.. the problem is more evident in the state governments. someday we have sheila dixit telling young girls off for coming out late at night from work or ministers like achutanandan making revolting remarks about a young martyrs family..!!
i think the best punishment for such people is to sensationalise the crime as much as possible ..or in many cases just showing it as it is..coz the content is shoking enough..!!
all these incidents only reaffirm the view that all our politicians deserve to go to jail..!!
and to think of these people talking about moral standards..may we ask just how many times have they crossed the moral threshholds in the privacy and security of their own homes.. and is not beating women an immoral thing to do.??? or did some god give them the power to do tat too??
Sri Ram Sena are a bunch of pathological lunatics just like some feudal goons seeking violence and attention in media.
If hooliganism, street violence, moral policing and taking law into their hands are signs of taliban, then let us see who all qualify to be termed as Taliban.
1) Mamita Benerjee dragged a SP MP by collar in Indian parliament. Has not she taken law into her hands and was as violent as Sri Ram Sena in the middle of India Parliament?
She is female Taliban according to the definition applied to “Sri Ram Sena”.
2) Both Renuka Choudhury and Uma Bharati are accused of publicly slapping men (we have seen videos), they both are taliban as well.
So, what moral authority Renuka has got? He herself is partly responsible for harassment, arrest of 1,23,000 women with out investigation under one single IPC.
She needs attention, which her father or bf never seemed to have given.
3) Women’s organisations attacked arrack sellers and husbands in south India, they are also taliban.
Banning liquor is taken from south Indian feminist text books only.
If liquor is injurious to social life in rural India, then it is equally injurious to social life in urban India as well. One guy being drunk killed 4 people just 3 km from my home in Bangalore.
4) Couple of women’s organisations broke furniture in Delhi High court opposing whistle blower justice JD Kapoor’s 2003 statement that “Dowry law is misused”. A lot of misery would have been averted if these Taliban were arrested and punished severely in 2003 itself.
They are also Taliban.
5) Sri Ram sena called the girls prostitutes.
At 20% of 1,23,000 women were threatened about false cases of “prostitution” in Indian police stations when they were arrested under 498a.
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If Sri Ram Sena is Taliban, then Indian Police is also Taliban. Ban Indian Police.
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The Sri Ram Sena are just like children in comparison to the violent behaviour shown by Indian Feminists, Indian police and women’s organisations.
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There is no difference between women’s organisations and Sri Ram Sena. Both want to oppose “drinking” by beating up the sellers and customers. Both are Taliban.
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1) If a man drinks, he is a drunkard.
If a female drinks, then she is liberal.
2) Drinking in Pub is social service.
Drinking Arrack in village is criminal activity.
3) Arrack sellers have to be attacked.
Pub owners have to be given Ashok Chakra.
Only Urban morons have right to drink and murder people on road.
What a double standard?
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Sri Ram Sena has to be banned, because they are Taliban.
Before that ban all other hardened Taliban, who slap men in public, attacked arrack shops, broke furniture in courts, lied and mislead the country.
Ban Renuka, ban Mamita, BAN AIDWA.
BAN Indian police, for calling innocent women prostitutes.
Ban UNICEF. Ban UNIFEM.
If terrorist Taliban Sri Ram Sena and extortinist police and taliban women’s organisations are not banned, then people must be allowed to take law into their hands and beat up all these terrorists.
Some 20 women are beaten and molested in Mangalore.
The crimes committed by Indian police and UNIFEM funded feminists on Indian women (also men) are much bigger. Ban them all.
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If a male MP dragged a female MP by collar in the parliament, has society reacted in the same casual way?
If a male MP or politician slapped a female in public view, has the society reacted casually?
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Crime has no gender.
The social double standards are very clear.
Female criminals get away, where as male criminals are put in jail.
Today, being a female taliban is fashionable. After slapping men, these bitches are giving sermons on civilised behaviour.