Comments on: The Silence of the Lambs by Jaggi Oberoi

By: UPDESH

UPDESH — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:40:46 +0000

Great to read Col Oberoi’s perspective. The world is going on because there are people still who rise above their daily needs and fight for some cause or the other. If everybody does so then there would remain no cause to fight and how shall we teach our children or ourselves the definition of evil if evil ceases to exist!

By: Dhiraj

Dhiraj — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:38:09 +0000

Excellent perspective on the life we live.
How do we grapple with the brutality of reality?
Its not merely in the words of the epilogue – its has to be action….When? Who? How?

By: JS Oberoi (Jaggi Oberoi)

JS Oberoi (Jaggi Oberoi) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:53:18 +0000

Dear Col Tuli,
Your views are respectfully acknowledged. “Nirbhaya” is only a symptom and not the malaise in our society today. There have been so many cases after that – in fact many every day where minors, adolescents, young women, older women have been brutalized and abused. What is the common thread in all these incidents – most, rather all victims have been “WOMEN”.
So on the one hand we are educating our women with liberal values and on an equal footing with our young men and on the other we are cautioning them to practice “extreme restraint “ or else they are most likely to be assaulted and abused outside their homes – or maybe even “inside their homes”. Let our girl child not cry out in anguish and I quote a few lines from “Umrao Jaan”.

“Yeh kyaa jagah hai dosto, yeh kaun sa dyaar hai,
Had – e – nigah tak jahaan gubar hi gubar hai”

One thing is certain – something has to change – either the way we educate and bring up our girls and young women or a certain amount of gender sensitivity and respect for the “girl” child, adolescent young ladies, wives and even mothers has to be brought about in our lives – you are the judge, but decide soon as time is running out.
Jaggi Oberoi

By: Yashvir Tuli

Yashvir Tuli — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:47:11 +0000

Dear Gen Surjit and Joginder Oberoi,
Thank you both for the e-mail and certain details (eagerly sought for by me for past six decades) about the 10th Guru. Even-though, I have slightly different views in the case of “Nirbhaya” – that why she was roaming about (or seeing late night cinema show at 0230 am, with her boy-friend – which her parents say that she only had a “best friend” and NOT a boy friend – and she was from Bihar and was roaming about without any other “female” -friend /para-medical class-mate(from her hospital)/relative in a notoriously infamous city. I am of the belief that “lambs” should always keep away from “Tigers” in a Jungle. We all know how “Jumbos” (elephants) shield their young ones from the predators. Her parents should have behaved like “Jumbos” and should not have left the “lamb” for the “Vultures” to devour at their will and pleasure.
I have had the good-luck of seeing “The silence of the Lambs”, and had also seen the “The night of the Ignua” where Elizbeth Taylor had played the role something identical to that of “Nirbhaya”. Nirbhayas do become easy targets for molestation whenever they roam carelessly near “predators”.
Not-withstanding my above opinion, please accept my heart-felt thanks once again for letting me have a “portion” of Guru Govind Singh’s (born “Govind Rai”and who was given basic teachings of religous Granths by Mahants of Varanassi/Prayag and Joshi Math under specific requests of his father Guru Teh Bahadur) first ever writen book “Vichittar Natak” in which he clarifies as to why he became the “disciple” and follower of Lord Shiva’s teachings. I had this book in Lahore but lost it there when migrating to Amritsar during partition time. Some portions of this book were available in the Museum of Guru Gobind Singh in Patna’s main Gurudwara when I last visited it during 1983 but have been told that this too has been removed therefrom. This book clarifies as to why 10th Guru followed the teachings of Shiva and did not preach “Ahimsa” like others.

Sir, in case you have an idea from where can I get this book, please do let me know so that i can procure it staightway.

With highest regards,

Colonel Y V Tuli (Retd)

By: Dr Inderpal Sandhu

Dr Inderpal Sandhu — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:10:39 +0000

My dear Surjit ji,

Thanks for your email. Enjoyed reading Jaggi Oberai’s piece.

You will find a picture of the girl, mentioned in his writeup, at the end of the following email.

It will be befitting to add the picture of the pretty girl to the article.

Inderpal

From: Mohammad Farooq
Date: January 20, 2013 9:31:30 PM EST
Subject: We finally get to see the picture of the girl Raped in N. Delhi

What a pretty girl with a very sad ending.

Mohammad Farooq

THOSE 6 RAPISTS MUST BE HANGED !

INDIA SHOULD CHANGE ITS INDIAN PENAL CODE, SECTION TO DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE !

NO OTHER LESSER PUNISHMENT !

It is indeed with a heavy heart that I send this mail to you. What a waste
of what could have been a wonderful life.

Her only fault was she got on the wrong bus!!!

> She was a student
> She was 23
> Her fault some people say because she boarded the wrong bus And oh yeah SHE
> WAS A GIRL … Six men raped her one by one and then used an iron rod to
> tear her vagina Small intestine and large intestine came out They left her
> to die on the road Naked Wounded Exposed Devastated What’s more is that no
> one even turned to look at her No one even bothered to throw a shawl on the
> ill-clad ill-fated girl She can never live a normal married life again She
> Went into coma five times since 16th December She was unconscious Critical
> and hasn’t been able to stop crying But don’t worry She wasn’t your sister
> She wasn’t your daughter But she could be. The brutality has to stop right
> here guys These people deserve capital punishment for their heinous
> Perverted act She died Saturday 28th December 2012 Rest in Peace and I pray
> that her killers get the WORST punishment possible This doesn’t only happen
> in India..
> But in every country around the world..
> Is this how we treat our women?
> It Makes me ashamed to even live on this planet today
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> “Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks to another day of loving.”
> – Kahlil Gibran

(Sorry, this site does not support pictures. I shall put it up separately, when it is declassified)

By: Ghansham Ahluwalia

Ghansham Ahluwalia — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:00:42 +0000

Dear GENL. SURJIT SINGH

I FULLY AGREE WITH YOU AND HOPEFULLY THIS TIME OUR JUDICIARY WILL PRONOUCE A BEFITTING SENTENCE TO THOSE WHO WERE RESPONSSIBLE FOR SUCH A HEDIOUS ACT.

IT SHOULD NOT REST HERE,THE PROBLEM NEEDS TO BE TACKLED SO AS TO ROOT OUT SUCH ACTS FROM THE MINDS OF OUR YOUTH THROUGH PROPER EDUCATION

Ghansham Singh

By: Aridaman Jit Singh

Aridaman Jit Singh — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:31:02 +0000

It is interesting perspective but are the people/institutions responsible for current state of affairs ready to give solutions. Can we think of solutions from those who are responsible for current state of affairs.

By: Golok Bihari

Golok Bihari — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:38:10 +0000

Thank you very much.

Golok

By: D S SARAO

D S SARAO — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:13:42 +0000

Very aptly put , will God forgive such men– ”Then they will go out and look at the corpses of those who have rebelled against me. The worms that eat them will not die. The fire that burns them will not go out. All humanity will be disgusted by them.”

By: r k mehta

r k mehta — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:54:13 +0000

Thanks for sharing a beautiful moving composition.