dr.jayakumar wrote:no violence..not my virtue..
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dr.jk
Sir nonviolence IMHO is a state of mind. I see it as very different from cowardice which I find even worse! As Krishna said, "No shame in defending your right"! Am more inspired by Arjuna & Bose than I am by Ashoka or Gandhi!
aadhaulya wrote:Doesn't work with everyone. The politician got scared about getting involved with the police and mostly due to threat of election commision.
It may have been a local gunda politician who imagines that no one can touch him from the police department and election commision (dekha jaiga). The only thing that would be in his mind would be that he has been insulted in front of his followers and he has to take action to maintain his image of being a fearless leader.
More likely to happen if fellow is uneducated.
Atul
Sir if a bunch of crooks stands outside your house, messes it up, then mocks you for it, in all likelihood you would respond the same way... IMHO politicians in India are turning out to be more & more of pepped up convicts than the 'Samaj Sevaks' they're meant to be.. If you & I don't put a stop to it, there may soon be a time when you be scared of stepping out of your house!
There are these local goons & crooks living some distance from my parents' house. The colony guys are all mostly the usual Indian pussies so they don't speak even when their property is being messed with.
My motto in life is to live free with my head held high & I'm ready to fight for it any day. Besides my belief is that there should be a terror of the good in the hearts of the bad.. The netaji can give it a try, in fact I would like him to try.. like Musharraf says, we don't have nukes (Ok I have a gun, no nukes yet!) to fire on Shab-e-Barat! :p
kshitij wrote:
On a serious note, why didnt you beat up the 'Netaji' too when he showed up? After all he was the one finally responsible and answerable for the whole act right.
So why resort to violence first, beat up the hired helps and then resort to 'I will complain to the authorities' guise when confronted by the person ultimately answerable?
Even as kids, when we had our little fights in school, there were clearly 4 sets of people.
1. Who get beaten/bullied silently
2. Who get beaten/bullied and go to the authorities without themselves resorting to any violence.
3. Who get beaten/bullied and fight it off themselves to the end till they are no longer beaten/bullied.
4. Who get beaten and bullied but will only fight off those who are much weaker than themselves (also, while doing this, they will act like pseudo bad boys themselves). The minute they are faced with another kid who may be stronger than them, they get all cold feet, run and hide behind the teachers and "authorities".
I personally feel the fourth kind grow up to be the least of men.
I didn't post this to get a character certificate based on second-hand information but to share with others what I went through. In UP, crooks roam free doing their usual low-life activities & only the fittest survive.. In a jungle, might is the right, however unpleasant or unfortunate it may be...
Having said that, none of them were 5-yr olds, all of them were in 18-25 age group. If a bunch of thieves & petty criminals gathers around your house, messes it up then mocks fun at you thinking they can get away with it, there are very few courses of action available, none of which is pleasant.
In my case I DID shout at them from inside my house to shoo them off.. Not only did they continue posting their garbage on my wall, they even decided to mock me about it as they do with others...
What they didn't take into account was my willingness to defend my property. I hopped off my first floor balcony behind my house on a dark patch, circled around & nabbed the eldest one directing others in messing up my wall (About 25, later turned out to be netaji's younger brother, also contesting panchayat elections).
Both him & his sidekick nearby, showed no fear & instead proceeded to attack me instead counting on their numerical superiority.. It was only when they started getting their butts beaten that they started pleading "Bhaiya maaf kar dijiye...". The rest quickly scampered off to call their Netaji (who thinks he's a bad-donkey just shares his surname with the UP CM).
Mom was screaming at me from rooftop because dad kept her inside. Dad was actually shouting, "Peeto badmashon ko!". Wife was the only one willing to assist with my gun if at all needed, I married her because she can shoot!
By the time Netaji turned up, dad had already called a subinspector from local thana doing his rounds. Colony people had also gathered some courage, came out & generally supported me as they too face it everyday.
Netaji turned out to be an ex-student of my mom & did a quick feet-touching drama. Since the guy was in no position to argue with a whole colony, he acted the usual slimy-neta way...
While everyone was supportive of filing a police complaint, mom being mom, had her way & let the man go scot-free. I in turn asked Netaji to get his minions to wash my walls which he did most happily. He also admonished his younger brother (the guy I nabbed first) for "behaving like a goon"...
This is how the drama unfolded last night. I think anyone else in my shoes would have done something similar. Now that the jury is better informed, they're welcome to pass their judgment. I'm born & brought up in UP so I do what I must & don't let the law bother me too much anyways!
