To Merlot

Rishi wrote:You have been waging war with TBT and Saamiyaar punching holes in their arguments about many social issues including the harassment and molestation of women in India. You must have some ideas as to how the governments whether state or central can go about managing the social problems.

In other words, what are your ideas for making India a better place for everyone regardless of gender, religion, caste, ethnicity, language and whatever that divides us?

Rishi wrote:You have been waging war with TBT and Saamiyaar punching holes in their arguments about many social issues including the harassment and molestation of women in India. You must have some ideas as to how the governments whether state or central can go about managing the social problems.

In other words, what are your ideas for making India a better place for everyone regardless of gender, religion, caste, ethnicity, language and whatever that divides us?

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

Rishi wrote:You have been waging war with TBT and Saamiyaar punching holes in their arguments about many social issues including the harassment and molestation of women in India. You must have some ideas as to how the governments whether state or central can go about managing the social problems.

In other words, what are your ideas for making India a better place for everyone regardless of gender, religion, caste, ethnicity, language and whatever that divides us?

Oh it's so much easier and entertaining to sink the ignorant, ill-thought-out and overly simplistic rhetoric that some folks spew. When there are complex problems at hand, which are a result of millenia of conditioning and socio-economic deprivations, it's silly to imagine that there is some silver bullet to solve them all instantly.

So yes, when Mahatma Anna and his merry band went on fasts demanding a massive, super-bureaucratic,super-authoritarian Lok Pal with overarching powers to eliminate corruption, and declared their show the second struggle for independence, I hooted with laughter.

And on the matter of rapes, when TBT went all lyrical, hailing the wisdom of the mobs, demanding the resignations of the Delhi police commissioner and Shiela Dikshit and for "policy prescriptions" from the home secy to cut incidence of rape in half, and wrapping these non-ideas in yards of empty rhetoric, I couldn't help but guffaw.

That said, in the matter of justice for rapes, I did make some suggestions elsewhere (which Upps found too complex to understand). Let me now elaborate on that. None of it is rocket science. It won't prevent rapes - nothing will. But it can certainly improve the delivery of justice to rape victims. IMO, there are a few simple things that can be done here and now: sensitizing cops on how to treat a rape victim, enforcing the SC ruling on police jurisdictions, training cops in evidence collection (with audits to enforce process integrity), better staffing and equipment of forensic labs, more courts and more judges, stricter norms for case adjournment, SLAs on case progress through the courts.

As you can see, none of this makes for easy sloganeering. These are all boring procedural matters. One can't trust the mobs to come up with these. Commonsense and knowledge of the problems on the ground is needed to think these through, but buffoons lack both. Hence their empty rhetoric and my jeering.

Merlot Daruwala wrote:

Rishi wrote:You have been waging war with TBT and Saamiyaar punching holes in their arguments about many social issues including the harassment and molestation of women in India. You must have some ideas as to how the governments whether state or central can go about managing the social problems.

In other words, what are your ideas for making India a better place for everyone regardless of gender, religion, caste, ethnicity, language and whatever that divides us?

Oh it's so much easier and entertaining to sink the ignorant, ill-thought-out and overly simplistic rhetoric that some folks spew. When there are complex problems at hand, which are a result of millenia of conditioning and socio-economic deprivations, it's silly to imagine that there is some silver bullet to solve them all instantly.

So yes, when Mahatma Anna and his merry band went on fasts demanding a massive, super-bureaucratic,super-authoritarian Lok Pal with overarching powers to eliminate corruption, and declared their show the second struggle for independence, I hooted with laughter.

And on the matter of rapes, when TBT went all lyrical, hailing the wisdom of the mobs, demanding the resignations of the Delhi police commissioner and Shiela Dikshit and for "policy prescriptions" from the home secy to cut incidence of rape in half, and wrapping these non-ideas in yards of empty rhetoric, I couldn't help but guffaw.

That said, in the matter of justice for rapes, I did make some suggestions elsewhere (which Upps found too complex to understand). Let me now elaborate on that. None of it is rocket science. It won't prevent rapes - nothing will. But it can certainly improve the delivery of justice to rape victims. IMO, there are a few simple things that can be done here and now: sensitizing cops on how to treat a rape victim, enforcing the SC ruling on police jurisdictions, training cops in evidence collection (with audits to enforce process integrity), better staffing and equipment of forensic labs, more courts and more judges, stricter norms for case adjournment, SLAs on case progress through the courts.

As you can see, none of this makes for easy sloganeering. These are all boring procedural matters. One can't trust the mobs to come up with these. Commonsense and knowledge of the problems on the ground is needed to think these through, but buffoons lack both. Hence their empty rhetoric and my jeering.