YOU ARE A WINNER

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YOU WIN SOME AND SOME YOU LOSE

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YOU WIN SOME AND SOME YOU LOSE

 

 

 

NETWORKING

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NETWORKING

 

 

 

COMPUTER STUDIES IN SCHOOL

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SIFTING

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SIFTING

 

In my experience …

“Respect is commanded

 can never be demanded

 nor can it be bought”

 is the lesson I learned

 in my growing years discerned

 and it was, as it was taught.

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 So, I took it as truth

 yes, the absolute truth

 and the lesson was well served

 for with the people I interacted

 respect was attracted

 if and only if deserved.

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 Now respect’s become a commodity

 and lawlessness not a liability

 all is needed is purchasing power

 and high regard will follow

 from the sycophant and the shallow

 for lucre is a sure guarantor.

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Mobocracy has become acceptable,

the assailant, respectable

while the lawful has become suspect

the honest are disparaged

their integrity ravaged (demolished)

and the crook’s given respect.

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Criminals are assured protection

against them are brooked no objection

crime-busters, instead, are set aside

sycophancy is rewarded

compliance is awarded

and trouble-makers are given a berth wide.

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The powerful cannot be censured

what’s to be read is now censored

report friendly or get axed

be nothing but a puppet

Got intellect? Stuff it!

independence gets you sacked.

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I cry for you Calcutta

as you face this confounding trauma

I cry for you West Bengal

once the land of the independent thinker

(who’d envision them in the ‘clinker’! [jail])

now being disrobed of that wherewithal. (ability)

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Jacqui

 

Contrasting Attitudes

This is my 4th post, where I continue to contrast the attitudes of people, to crimes against women. 

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“I certainly share the view that women are treated as chattel… one reason why crime is committed against women is because they are treated as chattel,” P. C. Chidambaram, Home Minister, India, said in the Rajya Sabha yesterday (21/03/12).

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In enlightened societies

where self-regard is the norm

you’d be hard-put to find a man

violating the female form,

for fulfilling of the biological

is by mutual consent

unlike in repressed societies

where the idea of dignity is bent.

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“I hope the attitude will change with education.” , the Minister continued.

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Unfortunately, a person may be educated and yet have a contemptuous attitude towards women, as was shamefully evident in my city of Calcutta this last February.   

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Now when sexual repression

is coupled with medieval thought

and the attitude towards the female

is with contempt fraught,

then it is to be expected

what is happening in my city now-a-days,

a violent rape occurred in the dead of night

and the victim was made to pay.

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You don’t need an education to be compassionate, to be understanding, to empathize with the victim.    You don’t need an education to know that it is cowardly, callous, cruel & mean to ‘pile on to’ the victim when she’s down.

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Yes the victim was detained for questioning

while the perpetrators were nowhere in sight

and that ‘long’ arm of the law

jeered at the victim, late into the night.

In her narration of distress, it is reported,

they took mocking delight

and that night passed on to the dawn

time on titillations’ wings took flight.

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In this disgraceful scenario, there was a beacon of courage & righteousness in Joint Commissioner (Crime) Damayanti Sen and Joint Commissioner (HQ) Jawed Shamim. 

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“She is a drinking lady,

visits clubs alone at night

is separated from her husband

so, ‘of loose character’ would describe her, right?”

is the tone of reprehensible reaction

from the Government with a woman CM at its head

exposing a churlish, coarse mind-set

shrieking ‘low-consciousness bred’.

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There was, of course, an outraged uproar by the enlightened & the progressive, against this intimidation & the brow-beating.

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Challenged, their menace

was severely blunted

they turned tail and ran

when confronted.

That the bully is a coward

there is no doubt

a gutless, spineless,

craven lout.

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I leave you today, with this thought :

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If only, people of higher thought

outnumbered the unthinking kind

it would do away with mob mentality

that blindly supports the fiend.

 

If only, yes, if only,

the educated did not compete

to imitate the vindictive

in sustaining dishonorable deeds.

Jacqui

 

Surrendered Responsibility …

As the streams of thought

flow through my brain

I realize, they all bear a refrain

“Betrayal of Trust”

is the signature theme

over which victory,

is my dream.

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That most famous betrayal

was done with a kiss

it was an overt action

and hard to miss.

No less in impact

though not publicly known

are the acts of betrayal,

played out in the home.

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I have been reading up on news items, blogs and articles on abuse of the female (child & adult) and the comments posted in response. 

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(Do read the article by Ted Bunch, titled “Ending Men’s Violence Against Women”.  You can Google it.  And do visit www.acalltomen.org while you are about it. )

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An interesting pattern emerged from the responses. 

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The humane responses were compassionate, rational, reasonable, civilized and quite a few in number. 

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It takes much courage

to hold out against

public opinion

that’s out to taint

one who is down

and has no self-defense

against the witch-hunting abettors

of dimensions immense.

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Hats off! to all the resolute

who take a stand

against targeting the victim

as is the demand

by people with double standards

whose opinions hold sway

for whom life’s not fun

if the victim’s not made to pay.

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The humane comments, Ted Bunch & A Call To Men have restored my faith in the ‘male’ too being created in the ‘image & likeness of God’.

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On the flip side there were the tired clichés that blamed the women for their victimization and there were the usual excuses for men’s abusive behaviour, in language that leaves a lot to be desired. 

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This is for the men who have surrendered all responsibility for their actions & the actions of their fellow men.  This is also for all women who offer their support to men who commit such crimes, in the home & out.

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When the male libido

 spins out of control

“She led me astray”,

is the much used loop-hole

“I over-indulged, I was a glut

could not resist the temptation

held out by that slut”.

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So cover up the woman

from head to toe

They’ll strip her in their minds eye

and do so very much more

and when their licentiousness

gets the better of them

it will result in the ruination

of some doomed femme.

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Now they need to be protected

from penalty of their rapacious lust

so the blame for the same

upon the victim is thrust

and win they do,

a resounding support

with the ‘diminished culpability

for behaviour’ retort.

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So with what could you say

 it all began?

this surrender of all responsibility

for behaviour, by man

that is supported & promoted

by all religious clans

… when an adam falls to temptation

it is the eve who is panned.

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Jacqui