I can totally agree with this...

Just some thoughts...

Off late, there have been quite a few incidents in the news, which have invoked me to think. Although I haven't been able to express my views about all of them through individual posts, I want to collect some of them here.
The first thing that comes to my mind is the Guwahati incident where a teenage girl was publicly molested and stripped down by a mob for about 30 to 45 minutes before she got any help. Needless to say that the incident is horrific and it's hard to even imagine what the poor girl would have gone through. Now, I don't know what might have instigated the mob and probably nobody would ever know the real chronology of events but I think nothing gives those men the right to act like that. Also, the episode happened in front of a camera and the whole thing was filmed. I don't know who did it, whether Mr. Neog, the journalist who filmed it actually instigated the mob or not, and irrespective of the fact that inadvertently it brought the incident to light and may even help in bringing the culprits to justice but I just simply cannot imagine that the person filming it had such angelic intentions. The first task should have been to help the girl or call for help assuming that the people around might not have intervened themselves in light of the Mumbai killings in a similar incident last year. What also aggravated my disgust and anguish at the incident is some of the remarks made by certain people about the whole episode in their attempt to decrease the severity of the heinous and barbaric act committed by those animals. Mr. Tarun Gogoi, the CM himself, for example, said that the pub is frequented by prostitutes. I would like to ask him whether this gives those immoral people the right to publicly molest any girl who happened to be there. To hell, EVEN PROSTITUTES HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY "NO". I really am at a loss to put my disgust and anguish in words. And my heart aches for the poor girl when I see those pictures on TV or net. I pray to God to give her strength and courage to overcome this all and lead a normal life. The least we can do anything for her is to bring the culprits to justice real soon and not embroil her in the typical Indian beaurocracy. And please for God's sake don't raise questions on her character.
The second incident is about the mob who went berserk in the Maruti plant in Manesar. Again, what gave them the right to take law in their own hands and kill people. If they have a complaint, there are better ways to address them. There is no argument that cannot be sorted out by talking. Vandalism is unacceptable and what is even more unacceptable is injuring and killing fellow humans.
And all this happened while the talks were on. In one fit of madness, or probably an orchestrated act of violence, the labour union mob barged into the board room, assaulted senior executives and burnt the building down. Avanish Kumar Dev, a senior HR executive was assaulted with iron rods, both his legs were badly fractured and he was left there to be burnt alive. The mob not only brought an innocent life to an abrupt end but ruined a family, killed a 17 year old child's youth by taking away from him his father's love and care. This is absolutely unjustified and unfair. The labour union cannot justify this by citing perpetration.
Another incident in another part of the world got media (and my) attention. Google's executive, Marissa Mayer got the high profile job of Yahoo's CEO, leaving behind the biggest contender, the acting CEO, Ross Levinsohn. She joins the wafer thin list of female senior executives in the silicon valley. But that is not what is really interesting. The really interesting bit is around Marissa being all of 37 and currently pregnant. I can bet that no management in India would have hired her for the top position. Especially when you have a once-on-top-now-struggling company to turn around and that too very quickly. And what's more, she is one of the highest paid honchos in the world. Marissa's story fills me with hope and she certainly makes all working and professional women proud.
In the end, I would just like to make a small prayer for two superstars of their respective leagues, Mr. Dara Singh and Mr. Rajesh Khanna. In their death, I was reminded how glorious their past was and how captivating their aura. May their souls rest in peace.

Inspirational quote from Michael Jordan