BLOG BY A COMMON INDIAN

“Necessity is the mother of invention”- might sound cliché but couldn’t find any apt reference describing the shocking revelation of carcass meat supply scandal. Bengal has seen famine in between 1769 - 1773 (1176-1180 in Bengali Calendar), but even then when almost one third of Bengals population got starved to death and people literally became omnivorous, couldn’t consume carcass meat. That was pre-independence era and we are talking of 70 years post independence when Bengal proclaims its growth in every facet. Had this scandal not revealed, we would have been in complete dark about this heinous nexus operating well over a decade and spread even across the border of the state. I still cannot comprehend that what degree of unscrupulousness give birth to people who can even contemplate of doing what they have done.   On the other hand, it is hard to believe that without the active help and support from the politicians and administration this nexus was operative for so many...

Sometime, scribbling remonstrance to express reproach against even the ghastliest incident is much harder than one can think. A melange of grief, pain and abhorrence created a veil on my inner feeling, so much so, that whenever I tried to pen down my thoughts against the Kathua rape and murder, all of my emotions got jumbled up & disarrayed me completely. Even the word barbaric will get ashamed of the act of those creatures (I am consciously using the word ‘creature’ instead of human), who have done such diabolical act. Atrocities against girl child and women are serious cause of concern for our society, but the most alarming fact is the increasing brutality which is getting associated with these kinds of incidents.   2012 Delhi ‘Nirbhaya’ incident shock the nation with its nature of brutality, where even a juvenile was part of the crime. The convicts got their due punishment and the laws were made more stringent to keep leash on such incidents, but record reveals that...