Rajan Kapoor Blogs!: Rajan Kapoor's Ejaculation 16: An Open Letter to The Departed Soul!

Hi! I am, what you may call, a ‘athiest’. So I cannot say that you must be NOW in Heavens and God (actually ‘Gods’ as you were probably a born Hindu) must be taking care of you. As far as I am concerned if he couldn’t save You from (and many OTHERS before, during and after your stay on the Earth) the barbaric torture when ‘alive’ then he need not do so for your spiritual ‘avatar’. Because your spirit was unbreakable even when the bastards here on Earth broke your body. (I know how many ‘faithfuls’ would have a very ‘strong’ explanation as to why HE, the almighty, made you undergo all this including the that pervasive across-the-world-religions stock bull shit…”that God has his ways and he tests some people in ways not understood by us...”). Well then I also, as a ignorant, do not understand why God did not rather become a Head of a International Testing Agency if he as the Supreme Being has no other more meaningful hobbies than make his human creatures undergo ‘inhuman’ tests. A MBA Entrance candidate has, or concocts, better and more ‘fulfilling’ hobbies to keep oneself and recruiters busy!

But I do believe in Nature, and its many beautiful and ugly mysteries of existence. And YOU exist now in the hopefully spiritual avatar much more HAPPY than living in the unperfect World in the form of humans -- some freaks ‘Athiests’ like me and crores of normal ‘Believers’ who profess the God’s ways of living. MORE Happy ‘Dead’ than ‘Living’ in this world of ours?

Yes… the following are some reasons that You are better ‘Departed’ than Alive here.

In the Spiritual form YOU will not be violated by demons who have God names: ‘Ram’ Singh.
You will not have to live in a ‘Ram Rajya’ of the Hindutva wallahs, very likely winners of the 2014 elections by default, whose leader Sushma Swaraj, a woman of great pious hindu beliefs, believes that even if You had survived You would be a ‘Zinda Laash’ (a living corpse) because under the great Hindu beliefs a Woman once raped cannot be a normal or pure human. One cannot blame Sushma Swaraj because as I said she is very pious Hindu woman who is committed to bringing a ‘Ram Rajya’ to India, unlike the foreign white ‘kafir’ woman who rules India now. The coming ‘Ram Rajya’, like good old days of the lord Rama, will make a woman who will be alleged to be ‘impure’ by any male, even outside the family, HAS to give a public ‘agni pariksha’ to prove her innocence. So a woman like You, oh departed soul, who is raped and assaulted by Ram Singhs etc, the ONLY option you had in this world was to accept a new and the lowest caste for yourself called ‘Zinda Laash’. Lower than the widows, the sex workers and …. Sunny Leone.
You would NOT have been called a ‘Daughter of India’ if you had lived a normal, educated working life as a trained physiotherapist , coming from a small district of UP. You had to go through a heinous crime and death which you went through to be bestowed such a prestigious title. After all only after getting kidnapped for the boorish behaviour of the family males, accepting whimsical ‘Agni Pariksha’s and desertions in advanced pregnancy could ‘Sita’ got to be remembered along with the Lord Ram for posterity. Of course many Politicians, Bureaucrats, Businessmen and film stars get titles like Padam Shris etc by going through some very demanding display of traits like flexible morality, absent work ethics, and present black money etc. And millions of Indians get their mokshas by offering tonnes of ornaments and money in temples . Not without.
Do not get carried away, O Departed Soul, by the above title. Read carefully. I have written… ” …they called you a ‘Daughter of India’…” not bestowed the title! Let the media, especially the TV one get a new story, they will forget YOU and the title. ( In fact that most despicable Hindi channel who claimed that they would not air any entertainment news or programmes for the next 3 days or so as a mark of respect to You, within in hours got the Veena Malik of the Big Boss fame to anchor a dramatic cricket discussion on Dhoni’s fireworks at Chennai!!!). Do You know that another woman as brutally raped as you, Aruna Shanbagh, lies in coma for the last 39 years or so, in a Bombay hospital where she was working as a young nurse about to be married to a handsome doctor. A demon of a ward boy, being caught by her peeping at her while changing clothes, choked her by wrapping a heavy chain around her neck and, after she fell unconscious, raped her brutally. Aruna Shanbagh went into coma and never regained normalcy. A true living corpse she lies till TODAY in the hospital, taken care by generations of nurses as she was deserted by her doctor fiancée first and then her family. (The criminal has finished his 7years sentence and is free). And INDIA has not remembered her except one Bombay journalist Pinki Virmani who has written a book on her tragedy and has been fighting for Euthanasia for her.Lucky you, O Departed Soul, that You turned a soul….
...Lucky You that you were a TV and Social Media generation. At least the sleeping middle class and others woke from their slumber to collect and protest fearlessly for you…. And themselves. Thousands collected at various places lighting candles, chanting slogans in support of justice for you. Many more did not move out of their homes and were content posting and sharing ‘smart’ posts. For the moment. Today as the last DAY of the horrible Year is on, already most of the ‘painted and dainted’ class (to quote India’s Presidents Son’s classic) is busy bringing out the party wear, the little Black Dress, the stylish caps……. to get ready for the EVENING’s hedonistic and Orgy of a night. Come on… O Departed Soul…. They have spent some days for you, even got beaten by police…… NOW you cannot grudge them a New Year celebration. A evening WHEN quite of a few of the same women who screamed for ‘Sensitivitisation’ and ‘Mindset’ of Males WILL today dance, drink, devour amidst the same known and unknown MALES; tolerate their wanted and unwanted attention in crowded main streets, pubs and discs BECAUSE Happy New Year come only once a year and cannot be let go just because a woman got raped and brutalised.

Some of the pictures circulating....

The middle class after the spontaneous protests is slowly going back to its self-centered routine. And known traits of latent curiosity which NOW is coming forth now that you are gone. Pictures purporting to be YOURs, in a hospital with all the tubes all over are being, shared as a supposedly concern for you by the Youth, forgetting that the Victim’s dignity is also to be respected and NOT got excited by having a glimpse of her, and worse circulating it! Many middle class women and men are curious has to how she looked originally. ‘Was she more good-looking than I am’ ‘What was in her that attracted the criminals’ etc. So suddenly pictures claiming to be Yours, before and after, have started being circulated shamelessly by women and men - forgetting that not only it is not legal - one is not supposed to show the victim’s face or identity; but even socially it is a ‘second rape’ this time by media and masses by showing her pictures. The middle class hardly cares. Now they want to see all the details of You for having spent many long hours fighting for you. We as Indians have copied this candle light protests from western countries, like many other professional skills; and like many such learnings we have corrupted the ideas in our typical mediocrity. Candle lights march by the very idea is supposed to be silent and dignified and we had Indians chanting slogans, hurling curses and crowding the victim’s hospital area!