Aman Kachru and his unfortunate parents, friends and family were not the first and sadly, may not be the last to have suffered at the hands of sadistic behaviour of their companions, colleagues or supposedly protectors (College authorities, Police, Administrations, Politicians, and Media).
The four main accused, namely Abhinav, Ajay and Naveen Verma and Mukul Sharma, were remanded to police custody for interrogation till March 16. It took a whole lot of public outcry for the police, to convert the case earlier registered as of ‘’culpable homicide not amounting to murder’’ to one of ‘murder’ under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.
However, no case has yet been registered against the college authorities despite failure of the college to take action against unruly elements and undisciplined students despite past history, when first year students of this college had abandoned their hostels and took shelter in a nearby police station only a few years ago!
As eyewash, the state Government has accepted the resignation of the principal and to prevent more back lash during the next months parliament election month, perturbed chief minister declared at Shimla that he would not participate in Holi this year following the tragic death of Aman!!!
All day yesterday, media representatives too from various news channels kept reporting with disgusting lack of sensitivity, the crying, moaning and even the spot interviews of the family and friends of the unfortunate lad. None which includes, college authorities, police, administrations, politicians, and media came forward to reassure that there will not be recurrence of an incident as heinous as this ever, to the Kachru’s and other’s whose sons and daughters are now being ragged or waiting to be ragged, as I write these passages.
Shameless authorities (infact all) have done nothing despite the Supreme Court of the land has ruled some years ago that any form of ragging is to be dealt seriously as a criminal act by the responsible authorities. But as usual rules are made, strictures passed and fires keeps on burning here and there, no one cares until it starts to burn their own homes.
Many amongst the masses have been reacting angrily and suggesting all sorts of punishment to the killers, college and police authorities. They are neither wrong nor their outburst is out place considering their anguish and their past experiences of criminal apathy that now pervades almost all sections of society. These are the voices of helpless citizens who are agonizingly frustrated.
I believe that we Indians are the best firefighters in the world because it takes only a ragging fire for us to wake up and the moment it cools down, we forget everything!
Rules after rules, laws after laws and incidents after incidents have failed to make us wise enough to think ahead and devise or design systems at micro or macro levels. The result, we are seeing in the form of everyone complaining (I too may be sounding the same) but doing nothing.
Teachers and doctors are the true carers and givers (like a mother), law makers and law enforcers are the two are responsible for maintaining an orderly society (like a father) and politicians are supposedly the guiding force from the society and for the society, who can envision the road to take for the good and happiness of all (like a philosopher). Mother never expects anything from a child but can we say the same for a teacher or doctor? Sadly, the so called motherly teachers and doctors have become professionals and behave like one! Should a father create disorder in a home? Sadly again, we can not say the lawyers, judges and police acts anyway as fatherly! And forget the politicians, without naming anyone in particular “netaji” (politician) or a party, can any of us recall one which is unselfish and as true and honest?
Therefore, it is not surprising, if the whole society (family) is experiencing the disorder with no real, lasting or workable solution in sight. I don’t want to sound or appear pessimistic because I am not the one, but the treatment (solution to the problem) is as difficult as the disease (breakdown and disorder in the society) itself. It is impractical and perhaps foolish of me to expect all of us will become saintly overnight! Although some self proclaimed "Godman" are out there doing very good business in the garb of teaching the art of living, physical and breathing exercises etc. In their so called public sessions, I see innumerable misinformed innocent people or veiled corrupt officials, politicians and businessmen around them taking a centre stage! There is no doubt most (who attend these sessions) are suffering (emotionally, spiritually or physically) and are looking for quick fixes for disappointments, frustrations and illnesses in their lives. However, none that I know and you may also know may have a real or lasting cure of their mental or physical ills! On lighter note, one thing is beside discussion that all these "Godman" have acquired a lot of political clout and have become billionaire in this process.
Coming back to the selections procedure that we follow in any vocation. We have been placing too much emphasis on the computing power of the brain rather than the guiding power of the soul of an individual we select to be a teacher and doctor, lawyer, judge and policeman.
Worst is the selection procedure of a politician, who is first selected by a political party, based on how much muscle and money power he has and then get elected, for how much division of votes he can manipulate in his constituency. If we are really looking for a viable solution then we have to adopt a selection procedure of all encompassing the power of not only brain and money alone but also aptitude and personality of the candidate’s suitability for any job. I believe corporate selection procedures follow some of these tests in selecting their personnel; however I doubt if they continue to do any follow ups on their selected candidates subsequently. Thus we see even in corporate sector many deteriorate over a period making them not suitable for the job they do. Because the subsequent assessments in their hierarchical system is only performance appraisal and not personality and aptitude maintenance! I therefore feel that appraisal of performance must also be linked to the individual’s emotional and spiritual personality maintenance and development within the job. I am sure this will help.
In the case of a young man Aman’s death, we can see vindication to what I have said above. Four boys who were training to be life givers in the futures have demonstrated that not only they are unsuitable for the job they were training for but also they have criminal bent of extreme nature with no compassion let alone sound judgment, a prerequisite to be a doctor.
I pray to the soul departed and souls left in agony. May God bless them all with peace and stability.
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The solution is not making laws but certainty of punishment without delay for such atrocities. I am personally against capital punishment. But I need to think over if these are the crimes that deserve nothing but a death sentence. I am compelled to judge that these perpetrators must be killed mercilesly.
Ragging means the doing of any act which causes, or is likely to cause any physical, psychological or physiological harm of apprehension or shame or
embarrassment to a student, and includes
(a) teasing or abusing of playing Practical joke on, or causing hurt to any student. or
(b) asking any student to do any act, or perform any thing, which he/she would not,in the ordinary course, be willing to do or perform.
With the increasing privatization of higher education in India, academic institutions in India have been experiencing increasing ragging-related excesses.
Despite the Raghavan Committee's recommendations and the Supreme Court's recent observations, most of the universities and colleges in the State have not taken any
serious action to curb the menace of ragging on their campuses.
There is a Facebook group "LET US SHOUT AGAINST RAGGING: PROTEST AGAINST THE TRAGIC DEATH OF AMAN" against ragging. If you strongly feel against this tragic incident,please jointhe group to make a voice against this.
Good morning,
hopefully fine?me too,just arrived the clinic.I think regarding some of your write up,like this Aman Kachru,you shoud make a simple introduction as to what the issue is all about especially for those who does not live in India and as ar esult has not been following the issue.
As regard your views about the politician,i quite agree with you,your description fit perfectly well with the Nigerian politicians which is not to say that politicians are the same all over the world.Politician are by product of the society,maybe nobody is immune to these heartlessnes paraded by most politicians.Regard.
your message is a great eye opner for the adminstrators/politicians/law makers of India. Our country should have very stringent laws to chek these kind of antiscoial activities and the administrators should have the will to implement the same. This kind of ghastly act attempted on Aman Kachru is highly deplorable.
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