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Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
- Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol 1, Ch.1 P.9
(Thanks to satya for raising this issue)
You can’t open Indian newspapers these days without reading about an Indian father raping his daughter.
* First, it was the Mumbai businessman Kishore Chauhan, who was arrested a few weeks back for raping his two young daughters. The older girl (now 21) was raped for nine years while her younger sister’s nightmare is said to have started recently. The younger girl is 17-years-old now. Besides the father, the family tantrik (astrologer) was also raping the older girl with the mother’s consent.
* As if one paternal rape incident were not bad enough, then came reports that an Amritsar BJP leader Ashok Taneja had been arrested following a complaint from his 20-year-old daughter that her father had been raping her for eight years. Yes, eight years.
* In the latest incident, Radheshyam Shiv of Hingna (near Nagpur) has been arrested for allegedly raping his eldest daughter, who is 15-years-old. The girl has accused her father of raping her for four years.
Update – 1
* One more Indian dad has allegedly raped his young daughter. According to this DNA story, the latest incident happened in Falipta village, near Phillaur in North India.
Update – 2
* Yet another Indian dad has been nabbed for allegedly raping his daughter. This time the helpless girl was four-years-old. And it happened in India’s capital Delhi.
Update – 3
* One more case of rape of a young girl, allegedly by the 11-year-old victim’s father, has come to light in Mumbai (Thanks, Satya).
More Studies Needed
Has this kind of child abuse been going on in India for a long time or is this incestuous rape practice a recent phenomenon in a society going through rapid flux?
Are Indian dads developing a new hobby – Raping their daughters?
These are questions that can only be addressed by more media reports, greater sensitivity of the police toward complaints from girls/women and extensive academic studies. Continue reading »
Here comes the 18th instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories.
This edition of Incredible India will focus on the travails of the female sex.
Remember what you read below is merely a microcosm of what women and young girls across the country endure every day.
 * A father of five girls upset that he had no sons threw two of them into the canal in Ghaziabad. One child was rescued but the other is believed to have perished.
Here’s an excerpt from the Hindustan Times story:
Fed up of taking care of his five daughters, a 32-year-old father threw two of them into Ganga Canal in Muradnagar, Ghaziabad.
Vinod Kumar (32), a small retailer, took his two daughters Monika (9) and Manisha (5) with him on Tuesday evening. Around 9.30 p.m. the police informed the family members that Kumar had thrown his two daughters into the canal, 2 kilometres from the house.
While Manisha was saved by a local boy, Monika’s whereabouts were not know. Police said she is feared to have drowned. The police have arrested the father.
* Life is very hard for girls in India. A 15-year-old girl Imrana Hakim, in Tauri village of Ghaziabad who resisted gang-rape by four swines was doused with kerosene and set on fire. Yes, the 15-year-old girl died.
* In India, not even old age is security against being molested, raped or murdered. A 90-year-old woman in the Ganauli area of Ghaziabad was allegedly raped by a 22-year-old drunk. Continue reading »
Why do you think change never comes in Washington and the common man always keeps getting shafted?
Because most of our politicians including President Barack Obama are in bed with the big corporations that keep screwing the hardworking Americans.
Big Beneficiary
Let’s take Obama for instance.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Obama received $104,332 from the scumbag company AIG in the last election cycle.
Obama was the largest beneficiary of AIG’s ‘generosity’ (meaning in reality taxpayers’ generosity) in the last election cycle.
No wonder Obama does not want to go along with the House leaders in imposing the 90% tax on the undeserving bonus recipients at the loss-making, struggling AIG. Continue reading »
Governments may come and governments may go in Pakistan.Â
But the ISIÂ is forever.
Nothing, really nothing seems to stop Pakistan’s dreaded military intelligence agency ISI in carrying out its nefarious activities.
Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI is now assisting the Taliban in widening its operations in Southern Afghanistan, according to a story in the New York Times, which also highlights the work of ISI’s S wing.
It seems intelligence operatives from ISI’s S wing are going as far as helping the Taliban and other militant Islamic organizations in Afghanistan recruit from the madrasas.
Folks, can it get any worse?
Here’s an excerpt from the NYT story:
The [ISI] support consists of money, military supplies and strategic planning guidance to Taliban commanders who are gearing up to confront the international force in Afghanistan that will soon include some 17,000 American reinforcements.
Support for the Taliban, as well as other militant groups, is coordinated by operatives in the shadowy S Wing of Pakistan’s spy service, Continue reading »
Mexico is burning.
Ever since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared a war on the drug-lords, the violence has exploded.Â
Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade…Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.
- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Mexico on March 25, 2009
By the way, have any of you tried drugs?
We’ve smoked Marijuana (or ganja as they used to call it in India) on Continue reading »
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