[Assam] Murder Most Foul

[Rajen & Ajanta Barua]

  Dear Ambika;
  I have been reading your article and the correspondence. I think the 
questions boil down to these:

  Why Indians cannot behave like civilised people?
  Why some Indians think they are better than others?
  Why Indians have so much racial violance?
  Why Indians hate each other?
  Why Indians have so many castes and outcastes?
  Why Indians burn their brides?
  Why Indians practise Sattee?
  Why Indians kills animals in the name of religion?
  And why Indians eat dog meat?
  Rajen Barua
  Houston, Texas

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Phanindra Goyari" <phaniss at uohyd.ernet.in>
  To: <ambikashukla at yahoo.com>
  Cc: <editor at deccanmail.com>; <info at deccanmail.com>; 
<Silchar-owner at yahoogroups.com>; <Silchar at yahoogroups.com>; 
<assam at assamnet.org>
  Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:39 AM
  Subject: [Assam] Murder Most Foul


  Following article appeared in Deccan Chronicle paper today.
  I also love dogs and other animals. But author's one sentence
  is not palatable for many north-eastern people:It says:

  "Apparently North-Eastern students at JNU regularly lynch
  and barbecue dogs".

  I heard that many people in Nagaland state eat dog meat. Now
  North-Eastern (NE)India consists of eight states: Assam, Arunachal,
  Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim. Except
  some people in Nagaland, people from other NE states do not eat
  dog meat. FYI, many people in NE India are vegetarians. Thus,
  it may be right to say that many students from Nagaland eat dog meat,
  but it is not right to say that whole north-eastern students kill dogs
  for meat.

  Ambika's above statement is hurting the sentiment of many people of
  north-easter region of India.


  Regards,
  Phanindra
  Hyderabad
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  Murder Most Foul
  article by Ambika Shukla
  ambikashukla at yahoo.com


  Murder Most Foul
  Pets
  One of the most anxious days of our army posting in Nagaland had nothing
  to do with the insurgency. It was the day, our Irish Setter, Bindu went
  missing. Given a free rein of the area, she would romp happily over hill
  and dales yet magically appear at one whistle or call. But one evening
  there was no familiar figure loping homeward in response to our frantic
  whistles and calls. After combing the area, my husband visited the Gaon
  Burha (village Pradhan) of the closest Naga settlement and spelt out all
  sorts of dire consequences if the dog did not return. Twenty minutes
  later, Bindu was safely home.

  An incident that occurred this week brings home the awful fate that Bindu
  so narrowly escaped.

  On the night of July 7, Yoronso, a 30-year-old Naga student at Delhi's
  prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) invited two pals over to his
  hostel room. Kali, a friendly eight-year-old campus dog (born and brought
  up there) happened to be sitting near the stairs. Using biscuits they
  lured her upstairs into Yoronso' s room (No 248 Kaveri Hostel) and bolted
  the door. Yoronso fed Kali some rice from the hostel mess and then tied up
  her mouth.

  The three then began to bludgeon the little creature with a cricket bat
  and curtain rods. After battering her for more than half-an-hour, Yoronso
  stuck a knife into the still conscious dog and began to cut her, even as
  she moaned and writhed in pain. Finally, they took a brick and smashed
  Kali's swollen, bleeding skull. The noise and blood seeping under the door
  attracted attention and a crowd of students and the warden began to bang
  on the door, forcing it open. Yoronso and his accomplices were caught
  red-handed - literally.

  Everyone was nauseated to find the battered remains of Kali and the
  cruelty that had been inflicted on the dog. Some students immediately
  summoned the police. But the warden, anxious to avoid any controversy,
  immediately planned a cover up by removing the body and the murder
  weapons. Students were warned not to make any statement to the police or
  press. When the police arrived, they conducted a cursory check; but
  neither made any arrests nor recorded the prima facie evidence. In fact,
  they would have done nothing had not one of the students called up
  activist Maneka Gandhi who immediately intervened and lodged an FIR.

  On learning that Gandhi had been informed; the warden issued a letter to
  Yoronso asking him to vacate his hostel accommodation. Yoronso is due to
  submit his Ph.D on July 21 and was already in the process of vacating his
  room prior to this event, so the Warden's action is surely an eyewash.
  Here is what the institution should do to punish such a crime and its
  perpetrators; firstly, Yoronso should be expelled and blacklisted from the
  school.

  The University should also refuse to accept Yoronso's Ph.D thesis, which
  his guide should also refuse to sign. The varsity must also revoke his
  Bachelor and Master's Degrees, and co-operate with the police to
  chargesheet and arrest all the three men.

  Instead, let's look at how JNU, this haloed learning ground, is actually
  conducting itself in the issue. Yoronso has been coached by the University
  to say that he reacted in self-defence after the dog attacked him. This is
  clearly untrue for a lot of reasons.

  First, the students unanimously vouch for Kali's gentle, friendly nature.
  Second, you shoo away or escape from a ferocious dog, you certainly don't
  lock it inside with you. When this theory failed, Yoronso was provided a
  second story.

  Now Kali was supposed to have entered his room and eaten his food. Why
  would his food be lying on the floor, and again, why did he not chase the
  dog away rather than locking her inside? Apart from the shame of a top
  University colluding with criminals, even more shameful is that these
  so-called mastermind academics cannot even come up with a plausible
  cover-up!

  But that does not mean that Yoronso won't get away. In this cruel and
  crazy world, even such blatant barbarity might go unpunished if we all do
  not protest. This apparently is not the first instance of dogs being
  killed at JNU. Apparently North-Eastern students at JNU regularly lynch
  and barbecue dogs. Kali's mother, Leela, was an earlier victim.

  This won't stop unless we make it stop. I am listing below the numbers of
  the dean's and the warden and the email addresses of the JNU
  Faculty.Demand action against the tormentors of a helpless, harmless young
  life. This could have been my Bindu.

  If we don't act today, it could be yours tomorrow

  Prof. Yash Pal (Chancellor),
  Off: 0112610 2430,
  Residence: 01202512075
  Soumen Chattopadhyay, Warden
  +91 9873439840
  Email addresses:
  palyash at vsnl.com
  bbb at mail.jnu.ac.in,
  rp47 at mail.jnu.ac.in,
  rector_2 at mail.jnu.ac.in,
  rkkale at mail.jnu.ac.in,
  chief_proctor at mail.jnu.ac.in,
  bohi0700 at mail.jnu.ac.in,
  dean_sss at mail.jnu.ac.in,
  harjit at mail.jnu.ac.in,
  valerianrodrigues at yahoo.com,
  balveerarora at yahoo.com
  dean_students at mail.jnu.ac.in
  zoyahasan at hotmail.in

  Feedback is welcome at ambikashukla at yahoo.com
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