From the news coming in it appears increasingly as though the Talwars had killed their own daughter for the sake of family ‘honour’. Their domestic help Hemraj was also killed on suspicion that he had compromised the same family ‘honour’.
If they were outraged by discovering Hemraj with their daughter in a compromising situation it most likely incensed them. It was done in hot diabolic passion. Or even more diabolic, they waited and found it confirmed that she did have a liaison with the domestic help. They planned the murder meticulously so that no evidence would be found. The disappearance of Hemraj would arouse suspicion. But the discovery of his dead body the following day made it even more suspicious.
The accusation of Hemraj’s widow Khumbkala that Rajesh and Nuppur killed her husband can help in the final unraveling of the truth. However, her penury and very low and humble situation in life makes it more cogent that it was after all an ‘honour’ killing. How could the Talwars swallow down that their daughter would lower herself to such aberration as to sleep with their servant?
But it casts aspersion on the Talwars. They were in the habit of going to late night parties. Drinks and free mixing of people could not be said to have prevented from exchanging of couples. The people of Talwar’s educated social class with affluence were also the ones who had a penchant for John Updike’s avant garde fiction.
By leaving their impressionable daughter alone in the house while going to late night parties defies any sense of decorum one could have. Therefore, ‘honour’ is a double edged sword it cuts those who struggle to save it in the names of family as well as those who whittle it down because of personal intimacy.
Class and status can make kiths and kins bond together so much so that it is a self adopted prerogative to enter into conspiracy and crime.
Uncles gang up with fathers to wipe out the stigma. Their male chauvinism abetted by family lineage and class consideration goes into the head and snuffs out the consideration that the victim is hapless, helpless and most vulnerable one. Each photo of Arushi bears witness to this truth as the down cast gaze of Nuppur and the twinkling of spectacles of Rajesh hide the tell tale truth of the grim face and the eyes.
What comes out of the murky deeds is that the Talwars had high connection, that Rajesh was short tempered and chased and beat Hemraj even for trivial matters. That he was influential and the post murder scenario bears it out. Perhaps that is why they have outwitted the investigation agencies so far. Dinesh, brother of Rajesh, was influential, assured of the family ‘honour’ at stake. Do you think that Khumkala and Hemraj would have ever even thought of such deeds? It is the station in life that makes or mars the high born.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Sunil Joshi and the dragon that killed him
Seventh of September 2006 saw a resurgence of Hindutva movement around reviving the issue of the controversial national song of Vande Matrum. It was deliberately crafted around the worked up anniversary of Bankamchand Chaterjee’s novel Anand Muth. It fits well in the core strategy of Rashtrya Swayamsevak Sangh. The song eminently excludes Muslims as true citizens of the country as they can never sing the song since it violates their fundamental belief of worshipping Allah and no one else and rejecting idolatry.
As a town with sizable Muslim population, Malegaon saw this as a convenient way of whipping up communal passion against them. Thus the meeting at the famous temple at Mosampul in Malegaon included Shiv Sena leaders Dada Bhuse, Sanjay Dusane, Rama Mistry, Pramod Shukla, Anand Bhika Pawar, Narendra Maharaj, Raja Ram Jadhav, Kailash Teesge, Tarabai Shirsat, Chayabai Shewade. Bhuse and Pawar pointedly said that the national song was against the British and its reactionary fervor was still not dead as others had taken the place of the British in modern times. (Malegaonvi shiv sena turfe wande matrum, Lotkmut 8-9-2006)The basic approach of RSS, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena and VHP and their later day avatar of Jai Vande Matram, Abhinav Bharat, was to target Muslims by means of terrorism. By then terrorism had acquired the weltanschauung of anti Muslim connotation.
It was primarily this worldview that led to the attacks on Muslims on September 8, 2006. Sunil Joshi played a crucial role in it. It would be preposterous to say that he was an associate of SIMI and he used Muslims to bomb Muslims. However, the innuendo has got currency that well motivated and devoted members of Students Islamic Movement of India let him penetrate their movement. In the first place the government at Delhi could never produce a single instance of SIMI involvement in bomb blasts. It prevailed on the Supreme Court to continue banning SIMI after every two years. Sunil Joshi was a hardcore communalist and would not divulge anything against the right wing extremists of Hindutva. To say that Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur organized the second terrorist attack in Malegaon on September 29, 2008 to avenge SIMI’s alleged killing of Sunil Joshi is simply subterfuge.
The only link assumed in the second attack is that the Sadhvi’s motorcycle was parked under the SIMI office at Bhiku chowk. She wanted to give a warning to SIMI that she was capable of taking them on according to the pet ideology of the Hindu right of bomb for bomb. The well designed plot did not have the SIMI office at all as a target. Those who brought the motorcycle of Joshi (she had sold it to him) to the chowk did not want to park it there. They tried their best to park it at their designated centre at the Nukud corner where the crowd of Muslim women buying bangles and tawdry ornaments for Id was thickest. That would have caused a huge casualty in thousands. But the lady police which had cordoned off the approach from Bhiku chowk to Nukad corner had steadfastly refused to let the motorcycle riders enter the corner. It is this approach lane to the Nukad corner that is aptly named after Martyr Hemant Karkare.
Both the terrorist attacks of 2006 and 2008 were mounted by inner core group of Bajrang Dal which has the temerity of changing names to avoid detection and bad publicity.
Similarly, saying that Joshi’s “overall behaviour was something not expected by a woman (read Pragya)" and that is why she got him killed is dodging and diversion.
Then the question ultimately asked is who really got him bumped off. And why. It could be that Pragya let herself play in the hands of someone far superior. It could be a well placed man like Indresh Kumar or equally doughty Parveen Togadia. They have the enormous sums at their disposal. Of course, Harshad Solanki took instructions from her on the day he and his cohorts killed Joshi. The pugmarks are still there but the dragon is someone still elusive.
The dragon could be an organization or agency or its individuals working as splintered entities. This comes handy for the purpose of avoiding detection or later manipulation. The assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, had got circumcised in JJ Hospital of Mumbai. He had never left RSS and according to his accomplice and brother and father of Himani Savarkar, Gopal, his whole family was nurtured on the ideology of RSS.
In those days there was no group like Bajrang Dal to take on more extensive destructive work. Bajrang Dal is the armed wing of RSS. It is this group which has the expertise of making bombs, using advanced weapons of mass murder and training to carry out difficult tasks. It has suicide squads and splintered groups designed to carry out violent attacks and deflect attention from the parent body as well as the mother of all groups, RSS. Durga Vaheni is the female counterpart of Bajrang Dal and Pragya rightfully belonged to it.
If description of Mithun Chakerwarty matches Lt Col Purohit, it was he who had trained and supplied RDX from his flat in Pune. He gave it to not just the Bajrang Dal activists of Nanded but also those who attacked Malegaon Muslims in 2006 and 2008, be they Abhinav Bharat or Jai Vande Matrum. Attacking Samjhauta express was even more daring. It shows all India recruitment of terrorists.
The definite and sure involvement of the army is very much there. Shrikant Prasad Purohit was in the intelligence wing of army working in the so called counter terrorism section. On October 15, 2008 even before his name appeared anywhere for 2008 attack in Malegaon the lieutenant colonel had sent a letter to his superior. In it he wrote not to report but to confide to a sympathizer and obtain advice from him. The lieutenant colonel wrote to Major Bhagirath Dey "The blasts which took place in Gujarat and Malegaon are on the same day and same time using the same technique. I had learnt that it is Mr Indresh Kumar of the RSS, who is instrumental in carrying out these actions. It is likely that senior RSS officials like Indresh Kumar are playing in the hands of ISI, knowingly or unknowingly." (Malegaon blast case: Purohit's letter indicts Indresh, Sadhvi Pragya. India Today March 3, 2011).
This disclosure reads like a report of an intelligence officer to his superior. But the army’s silence over more than two years would amount to either Purohit trying to save his skin or mutually worked out strategy of bailing out a fellow officer from a seemingly disastrous situation. This would lend to different explanations. That the army is itself neck deep in it or RSS is.
The headquarters of RSS at Nagpur was the Camelot of different assignment in different parts of the country. The visor, the armour and the swords and spears were replaced by bombs and bomb makers. According to Swami Asimanand, Indresh Kumar had told him that bomb making was not the work of the swami, it was for Sunil Joshi. He had given 50000 rupees to Joshi for the work. ('RSS leader Indresh provided money for making bombs' Zee New January 8, 2011)True to its nature the modern day Camelot was in touch with its knights in shining armour. The reports were coming in from someone (“Pophale”?) on duty in the police control room of Malegaon on September 8, 2006.
As a town with sizable Muslim population, Malegaon saw this as a convenient way of whipping up communal passion against them. Thus the meeting at the famous temple at Mosampul in Malegaon included Shiv Sena leaders Dada Bhuse, Sanjay Dusane, Rama Mistry, Pramod Shukla, Anand Bhika Pawar, Narendra Maharaj, Raja Ram Jadhav, Kailash Teesge, Tarabai Shirsat, Chayabai Shewade. Bhuse and Pawar pointedly said that the national song was against the British and its reactionary fervor was still not dead as others had taken the place of the British in modern times. (Malegaonvi shiv sena turfe wande matrum, Lotkmut 8-9-2006)The basic approach of RSS, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena and VHP and their later day avatar of Jai Vande Matram, Abhinav Bharat, was to target Muslims by means of terrorism. By then terrorism had acquired the weltanschauung of anti Muslim connotation.
It was primarily this worldview that led to the attacks on Muslims on September 8, 2006. Sunil Joshi played a crucial role in it. It would be preposterous to say that he was an associate of SIMI and he used Muslims to bomb Muslims. However, the innuendo has got currency that well motivated and devoted members of Students Islamic Movement of India let him penetrate their movement. In the first place the government at Delhi could never produce a single instance of SIMI involvement in bomb blasts. It prevailed on the Supreme Court to continue banning SIMI after every two years. Sunil Joshi was a hardcore communalist and would not divulge anything against the right wing extremists of Hindutva. To say that Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur organized the second terrorist attack in Malegaon on September 29, 2008 to avenge SIMI’s alleged killing of Sunil Joshi is simply subterfuge.
The only link assumed in the second attack is that the Sadhvi’s motorcycle was parked under the SIMI office at Bhiku chowk. She wanted to give a warning to SIMI that she was capable of taking them on according to the pet ideology of the Hindu right of bomb for bomb. The well designed plot did not have the SIMI office at all as a target. Those who brought the motorcycle of Joshi (she had sold it to him) to the chowk did not want to park it there. They tried their best to park it at their designated centre at the Nukud corner where the crowd of Muslim women buying bangles and tawdry ornaments for Id was thickest. That would have caused a huge casualty in thousands. But the lady police which had cordoned off the approach from Bhiku chowk to Nukad corner had steadfastly refused to let the motorcycle riders enter the corner. It is this approach lane to the Nukad corner that is aptly named after Martyr Hemant Karkare.
Both the terrorist attacks of 2006 and 2008 were mounted by inner core group of Bajrang Dal which has the temerity of changing names to avoid detection and bad publicity.
Similarly, saying that Joshi’s “overall behaviour was something not expected by a woman (read Pragya)" and that is why she got him killed is dodging and diversion.
Then the question ultimately asked is who really got him bumped off. And why. It could be that Pragya let herself play in the hands of someone far superior. It could be a well placed man like Indresh Kumar or equally doughty Parveen Togadia. They have the enormous sums at their disposal. Of course, Harshad Solanki took instructions from her on the day he and his cohorts killed Joshi. The pugmarks are still there but the dragon is someone still elusive.
The dragon could be an organization or agency or its individuals working as splintered entities. This comes handy for the purpose of avoiding detection or later manipulation. The assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, had got circumcised in JJ Hospital of Mumbai. He had never left RSS and according to his accomplice and brother and father of Himani Savarkar, Gopal, his whole family was nurtured on the ideology of RSS.
In those days there was no group like Bajrang Dal to take on more extensive destructive work. Bajrang Dal is the armed wing of RSS. It is this group which has the expertise of making bombs, using advanced weapons of mass murder and training to carry out difficult tasks. It has suicide squads and splintered groups designed to carry out violent attacks and deflect attention from the parent body as well as the mother of all groups, RSS. Durga Vaheni is the female counterpart of Bajrang Dal and Pragya rightfully belonged to it.
If description of Mithun Chakerwarty matches Lt Col Purohit, it was he who had trained and supplied RDX from his flat in Pune. He gave it to not just the Bajrang Dal activists of Nanded but also those who attacked Malegaon Muslims in 2006 and 2008, be they Abhinav Bharat or Jai Vande Matrum. Attacking Samjhauta express was even more daring. It shows all India recruitment of terrorists.
The definite and sure involvement of the army is very much there. Shrikant Prasad Purohit was in the intelligence wing of army working in the so called counter terrorism section. On October 15, 2008 even before his name appeared anywhere for 2008 attack in Malegaon the lieutenant colonel had sent a letter to his superior. In it he wrote not to report but to confide to a sympathizer and obtain advice from him. The lieutenant colonel wrote to Major Bhagirath Dey "The blasts which took place in Gujarat and Malegaon are on the same day and same time using the same technique. I had learnt that it is Mr Indresh Kumar of the RSS, who is instrumental in carrying out these actions. It is likely that senior RSS officials like Indresh Kumar are playing in the hands of ISI, knowingly or unknowingly." (Malegaon blast case: Purohit's letter indicts Indresh, Sadhvi Pragya. India Today March 3, 2011).
This disclosure reads like a report of an intelligence officer to his superior. But the army’s silence over more than two years would amount to either Purohit trying to save his skin or mutually worked out strategy of bailing out a fellow officer from a seemingly disastrous situation. This would lend to different explanations. That the army is itself neck deep in it or RSS is.
The headquarters of RSS at Nagpur was the Camelot of different assignment in different parts of the country. The visor, the armour and the swords and spears were replaced by bombs and bomb makers. According to Swami Asimanand, Indresh Kumar had told him that bomb making was not the work of the swami, it was for Sunil Joshi. He had given 50000 rupees to Joshi for the work. ('RSS leader Indresh provided money for making bombs' Zee New January 8, 2011)True to its nature the modern day Camelot was in touch with its knights in shining armour. The reports were coming in from someone (“Pophale”?) on duty in the police control room of Malegaon on September 8, 2006.
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