[Assam] Murder Most Foul
Rajen & Ajanta Barua
barua25 at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 21 08:10:28 IST 2008
Dear Goswami
All I was doing is to change the focus from the North east to India for
the wisdom of Ambika behn. India is a country full of contaridtions and one
cannot generalise a particular region for for this or that. That is what I
was trying to bring home to Ambika. Today, one friend told me that there was
a news paper report that in North India some people eat human corpse. Are we
then going to say, like Ambiaka did, that all North Idiand eat human corpse?
That was my point.
Regarding your views of eating dog food, let us not be judgemental about
whethere eating dogfodd is better than eating fish, chicken, snake, frog,
monkey or cow. Scientifically speaking, I donot see any difference, and
nobody should.
Regarding cruel treatment to animal, is a different issue. The question
remains, why Indians still do practise animal sacrifise for worship of Durga
and Kali. It should be stopped by law, treating the issue on equal level.
Regards
Rajen Barua
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Subject: Re: [Assam] Murder Most Foul
> Dear Rajen & Ajanta,
>
> I do agree with most of your bullet points except the last statement.
> I would like to modify it as " Why a tiny community of Indians in the
> Northeast eats dog meat"?.
>
> I personally find it disgusting to read about Kali's fatal end at JNU .
I
> have no reason to disbelieve the account which has been very well
presented.
> We mustn't defend it just because we belong to the Northeast. It is
shameful
> for all of us from the Northeast that the practice of eating dogs is
still
> prevalent. I would personally like to see this practice of eating dogs
> stopped by law if possible as they are such lovely family friends.
Perhaps,
> that will open a can of worms!
>
> Regards,
>
> Romen
>
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> Subject: Re: [Assam] Murder Most Foul
>
>>
>> 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
>> **********************************
>>
>>
>> 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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