"Barkha : Sabrina, will u be able to sleep tonight?"
Sabrina: (smiles) I can show my parents and sister we won. Its going to be a long peaceful sleep."
Listening to this at the end on NDTV's special report programme, I realised when something merely is not a headline. Behind every headline, there is a struggle. A human. A life. A soul. There is something about hunger of justice. Listening to those, I actually started believing in the phrase JUSTICE AT LAST. This was a headline that I saw everywhere but I always thought JUSTICE DELAYED IS DENIED. Hats off to those who truly fight for what they believe. I know souls rest in peace today. Today, the smile in Jessica's picture showing on my television screen for the first time seems real.
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7 comments:
How true. :)
But it's also most often overlooked.
Also, very well written.
Mr. AC thanks. Always game for some good words!
Erm... Mr. AC??
LOL.
Yes, it is heartening to see justice being done. But there are other (and larger) issues. With all due care not to hurt anyone's sentiment, Jessica Lall was serving alcohol at an illegal bar. She got murdered. The culprit must be punished as he has been. I completely agree with you about delay in justice. But this was one hyped up case concerning the 'high society' of Delhi. What concerns me more is the fate of families of thousands of poor, voiceless victims in this country. Somehow all this hype about some murders in Delhi seems to juvenile to me. And then Jessica's family members celebrating by opening a bottle of champagne?The judgement hardly called for any celebration. It should have been a day of peaceful remembrance.
Well, if it is heartening to see justice done, lets just leave it at that, shall we?
No one is pointing fingers at the poor, or denying their "voiceless fate". This has nothing to do with that. We are celebrating a landamrk judgemnt, irrespective of Jessica's position in society. And I find it hard to believe that just because it was a "high society murder", the value of justice seems diminished to you. I mean, "Somehow all this hype about some murders in Delhi seems to juvenile to me."?? Seriously, just because for once we seem to give a damn, we have become juvenile in your oh-so-mature eyes?
The post addressed a specific issue. No one or nothing in the post sought to undermine the cause of the beautifully alliterative "voiceless victims". Then why undermine an issue that is indeed positive and heartening? And next time a relevant comment would be helpful.
I partially agree with Mr.harsha vardhan.It is truely great to see that justice has prevailed due the preserverance of common man or the "aam janta".Its grt that people are beginning 2 realise how much power they have and that politicians and their families are not above law.But here i would like 2 question the medias role.Agreed they contributed 2 the jessica lall case,mattoo case,nitish katara case but why the hell isn't there any news on the kherlanji case?Not one but four people were murdered and in a very ghastly manner.Why no reports,news on that?Why no protests,candle marches,smsin ur opinion on dat?Cos bhotmange happens to be poor and uneducated.Hes not a well read man who can talk in english about the horror he faced,how he saw his 2 sons being killed and his wife n daughter being raped in front of his eyes.U see at the end of it all the media cares about is if the story will sell!Our country has denied him education,prosperity and now it denies him justice!
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