Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Dancing to the tunes - "Latika tu mere saath dance karegi na"

She is bound to, even if she doesn’t wish to, wish is too wishful for her. Her life is anything but gentle to her. So rephrase your question Jamaal. Don’t ask her; command her to dance to with you. Your manner is so clement to her. She has to get used to a much harsher way of life, where no one would sprinkle any mercy on her. Her Father wants to sell her. Her biological and step mothers are exchanging blows. Police, media, everyone wants a piece of her. And in all this, she has to witness this all. Though in fiction, I can see you as her only friend. So, have pity on poor soul and get her prepared for what vile lies ahead.

Rubina Ali, the pride she brought to country, everything is on sale for 1.8 Cr.
Her father clearly seems to lie, when he says the voice is not mine and is doctored. Believe me, this insidious maneuver was not by him, rather he was aping notorious celebrities of today, Varun Gandhi being the most recent one. Rubina’s innocence instead stood as evidence against her father. On camera, she can’t daresay anything against him, since she was parroted the imperative. But off camera she said, “I don’t know what happened. While returning my father asked me if I would like to go to Saudi Arabia (at least Rafiq knows about free will, the wretched soul should have known of age limit involved). I said yes. They also spoke of getting passports for themselves.”
A holiday is the least you can ask for, when 1.8 Cr are swinging in your kitty. After all this is all she is meant for, as one of her relative is quoted,” Bhala dudh dene wali gai ko koi bechta hai kya? (Does anyone sell a cow that can still be milked”?)
Irrespective of her sale status, one thing could be clearly ascertained, that is what she is being perceived as.

This is the Plight of Rubina Ali and the criticism her family is going through.
Let’s flip the coin once. Let’s ask some questions.
Why was the sting operation carried out in the first place?
What do you expect out of hunger-marred slum dwellers? They don’t get education. They don’t get teaching of rights n wrongs. Being Human, they are prone to be fallible, as fallible as we are. Its just the decision Rafiq has to make was big. Bigger than him, his aptitude, his edification, his education and his economic condition, which overtook him.
We were there to criticize him, but without any cognizance of ruthless conditions he is living in. I know we would have never done such a thing, had we been in his place.
But let’s be in his place with his ability to think, with his insecurity for food, with the extent of hygiene he lives in. We can’t, so let’s not be him.

Here, I want to condemn the British tabloid that carried out this shameful act.
Does there capitalist mindset is so rapacious that they can exploit and debase to any extent they greed? Is there circulation is so vital that they can make a poverty porn for it?
The movie was not, but this incidence is a poverty porn.

You hang a starving dog with nylon cord and make it stand on table. Get a delicious chicken tangdi for him, knowing the dog is bound to jump and hang itself, and when the dog does that, you shout Greedy Dog!!. Here, it isn’t the dog but, someone living in much ghastly and callous circumstance, may I use the word “a Slumdog”.