Gory Pori Story

To deviate from the recent visually destabilising images questioning humanity of its existence, this morning, I decided to read other parts of the paper.

And in other news, was not going to be just 'read and flip' either, is what I was soon to discover. 

A senior columnist Aakar Patel's not so 'humerus' write up in Mumbai Mirror today, had me wondering, and really hard…

As a veteran of the society, he feels it is his responsibility to buttonhole the youngsters of today on pressing issues of our times. But having said that, he has humbly admitted, that even with his plentiful years of greying, Indrani has left him bemused!

This, quiet apparent from his article titled  - "I know who you did last summer" 

The tone of the canvass, to ease in our generation, I believe was a tad disrespectful. 

1. Did Indrani have two husbands or three?

2. Or did she have one husband and two others?

So if a woman has married three times, she is definitely capable of committing murder! Bad character from the beginning you see kids! 

But wait this was Peter's third marriage as well. Let's ignore the fact that Sheena and his son Rahul both had clearly told Peter on what true lies are.

3. Is she Indrani? Or is she Sheena? In which case where is Indrani?

4. Is Indrani an alien? 

5. Is Radhe Ma really Sheena? 

Mr Patel, once again being a vigilant member of the society, has not only opened doors to dissect a woman’s character, scoff at an underserved death, but has also flicked a castle of cards on questions that the cops haven't thought of after week of investigation. Pull up your socks men!

Mr Patel further questions the substratum of this case:

6. What did Indrani eat for lunch?

7. Is Peter really Sheena?

8. How did Peter become CEO?

9. Why is his last name spelt as if an Angrez is pronouncing it? 

10. Is Sheena going to return from the U.S?

11. What will happen to our live if she does? 

Voyeurism is one thing, but making a mockery out of something incidentally serious could be taking it to another level, and may have a chance of misinterpreting the case altogether.

For most of us, "Did she do it?" has become the most relevant question after "Did they do it?" Apparently Mulder and Scully did! But Mr. Patel is flummoxed about Indrani. 

Most of us were convinced and knew even before facts had been presented, confessions had been made, that Indrani the ambitious, driven, conniving, manipulative, cold, heartless, super power, child desserter bitch is guilty. How can she be not? It's wrong for a woman to be any of these. 

In the film 'Guru' when Abhishek Bachchan rose from nothing to Ambani-thing, we all applauded, because we felt ambition and success were not restricted only to the big cities anymore. Even a small towner could dream big. 

But when one turns from Pori Bora to Mrs. Mukerjea, then things get a little unacceptable. Then it's called (and not with love) "The Rise of Indrani Mukerjea" - slapped on with your mugshot, sipping something from  a glass you probably didn't even finish cause a pigeon shat in it or something! 

In all of this, even Mr. Das, got his two minutes of glory for being associated to the much talked about (though I wish it was just that - two minutes) He righteously made statements like, yes Sheena is my daughter and if Indrani has committed this crime then she should hang. 

What? Wait a minute, Sheena was the daughter you walked out on. She was the daughter, who you got in touch with once, in all of her years, she was the daughter you never paid anything for or towards. And the same goes for your son, but I guess he aint important enough, cause he's still alive!  

“She threatened to stop sending me money if I asked too many questions about Sheena... I loved her, we shared a bond...last I saw her was in 2012” Said Mikhail. But the money stopped in 2013 anyway. So what stopped you till a month ago from figuring out where the fu@k your sister is?!

“I also know exactly why she murdered Sheena. I will only give proof if she doesn't confess herself.” Are the cops bloody retards(for want of a better word :)) that you can say you're holding onto the most crucial evidence in motive to help solve a case that 80 percent of the nation is trying to anyway, and they, the cops are gonna just say " oh wait...don’t tell me ...lemme guess..ermm" 

Without ranting anymore, where this article could be mistaken in support of anything, I'd just like to say - People - Indrani’s crime - committing a cold blooded murder and planning a second one - as she's being tried for. AND NOT that she left her kids, or her first husband or her second husband or lied about her marriage to her current husband, or pushed him to jump ship and launch his own venture or the number of bank accounts she has.  Yes, all of that definitely makes you "not a nice person" - maybe, and it more interesting and media friendly. Imagine if a plain jane had done this after turning cuckoo one day, or that 75 year deranged old man who killed his old wife for refusing him food, or the servant who killed his master for some petty jewellery…no, wait come back…ok let’s go back to talking Indrani.  

So like I said, I wonder has this case, people who write in, comments, all turned largely and sadly sexist somewhere? 

Aruna - 42 long years of death

1996: SC overrules 1994 verdict and holds that ‘right to die’ is not part of ‘right to life’ under Article 21 of the Constitution. It also holds that euthanasia is illegal.

Aruna Shanbaug was denied ‘right to die’ but the ‘right to life’ was also cruelly taken away from her.

Shanbaug was a staff nurse at the KEM Hospital when she was attacked by sweeper Sohanlal Bharta Valmiki on the evening of November 27,1973. To immobilise her, he wrapped a dog chain around Shanbaug’s neck and yanked her back with it. Valmiki tried to rape her but sodomised her after finding that she was menstruating.

Even after 37 years of being in a vegetative state, since that day of the assault and a medical panel set up under the Supreme Court's directive concluding that she met "most of the criteria of being in a permanent vegetative state", she was denied mercy killing.

The nursing staff at the hospital that had been looking after her since she had lapsed into coma, vehemently opposed the petition. "We have to tend to her just like a small child at home. She only keeps aging like any of us, does not create any problems for us. We take turns looking after her and we love to care for her. How can anybody think of taking her life?"

This is what most people think when it’s a loved one. But over the years her colleagues retired, died, new ones who hadn’t even been round on that fateful day or through her petition got appointed, but they all took care of the legacy that was Aruna, as if she was their child. Or was each one fulfilling some of their internal vacuum?

How can one see their child suffer like this, with no medical hope, year after year, struggle for breath?  Was she even there, did she want any of this? Had she known she’ll be in this state forever, would she have wanted to be the burden-less child?  

The Supreme Court, however in a landmark judgment finally allowed passive euthanasia in India

Strange .

Active euthanasia: When medical professionals, or another person, deliberately do something that causes the patient to die

Passive euthanasia: When the patient dies because medical professionals either don't do something necessary to keep the patient alive or when they stop doing something that is keeping patient alive.

To me the intent is clear in both the cases, only the second one involves more suffering, ensures that whatever it is that is killing you will suck the life out, while you struggle for every last breathe.

Aruna was young, a junior nurse, engaged to a resident doctor, she may or may not have had a fulfilling life ahead of her. 

But instead she was in a vegetative state for 42 years after being brutally raped, gums rotting ,nails digging into the inside of her palm and died after every single nurse who cared for her over those years couldn’t save her from the final call of pneumonia.

If she couldn’t get a life of dignity I wish in death we’d granted her so.

We really need to wake up to Euthanasia as a nation.

Sure, dividing the dubious from the real cases will be a task, lets put our energy down to creating guidelines on what is genuine rather than all our energy into just saying no.