By us, I don’t mean you and I. But you know who I mean. You and I remain mute spectators to the disgraceful tamasha playing out at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. It’s the 17th day, today. With no end in sight. And the champion women wrestlers holding out in the open and in the rain are not crying out of shame or humiliation for the degradation and dishonor of being sexually exploited. They are past that pain. They are crying for justice out of despair and frustration because nobody is willing to bell this politically volatile cat. Certainly not the people who welcomed them back home from international competitions and were happy and proud to pose for pictures with them and their medals when they were being nationally felicitated. Again, you know which people I mean. They have chosen to remain neutral and stay out of the picture this time. And allowed the protest to attract global exposure to our insensitivity towards a demand that in another country has a former President put on trial.
Their indifference has only prompted people on the sidelines that are inimical to their governance to hijack the protest and turn it into a political circus. What might have ended with a sympathetic and urgent redressal of the complaints has turned into a national shame.
I don’t know why when these allegations were made the accused was not arrested and
investigated and made to face the victims in a judicial forum. And why he was allowed to brazenly flaunt his status and political shield and force them to take to the streets. An
athlete’s run in competition is short-lived. Time is running out for them. Do we care that
they may never be able to represent the country again? No. There will always be others. Do we worry that the Gen Next might also be similarly exploited sexually by the same kind of wolf? No. Otherwise, we would have taken hard and fast action this time and made an example of the accused. That’s also why the women wrestlers are crying.
About Mark Manuel
The above thoughts/content has been proudly copied from the wall of Sir Mark Manuel. Being interviewing almost every role model of this country and going stronger each day. Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer, and columnist.
With over three decades of journalism in leading publications. This includes the Free Press Journal, Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Mid-Day, and Afternoon. He is famous for his brilliant pen interviews. He himself is a TEDx speaker.
Further
His interviews have been featured in several leading media houses. They include the Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, BBC, and Network 18. Almost every famous person has been interviewed by him in the country from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali. His first book is just out. It’s titled Moryaa Re! It is a crime thriller that is perhaps the country’s first police procedural. He began his career covering crime. And in a tribute to his experience and knowledge of this beat.
Several distinguished officers of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch collaborated with him to make this book possible. Amitabh Bachchan wrote the forward in a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work.
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