THE BAFFLING CASTE SYSTEM STIL CLOGS OUR LIVES ...A TRAGEDY OF HONOR KILLINGS:(:(:(

In the end its all sympathy from the public,a bigger unbridled media speculation and hype,and a loss of their own people for the vandalism of caste forms in our country.I opine that it is a case of unfolding coloured, yet debatable modernism with shadows of darker viciousness and traits of sinking humanity and love in present era.

RIZWANUR REHMAN,sounds familiar rite?a victim of honor killing.media scrupulously handled the entire scene,but where is all the news now?years together they investigate and in the end dusty files are still on rampage to courts,even in the recent Nirupama case,my horizons don't find any lesser vindictive attitude if these inhuman slayers are put in par with Afzal guru or Ajmal kasab.To be young and in love has proved fatal for many young girls and boys in parts of north India as an intolerant and bigoted society refuses to accept any violation of its rigid code of decorum, especially when it comes to women. how long is this going to rig our minds deep well until we face it?

Efforts should be made to sensitise people on the need to do away with social biases. But equally, it should be made clear that there is no escape for those who take justice into their own hands. So far, there is no specific law to deal with honour killings. The murders come under the general categories of homicide or manslaughter. When a mob has carried out such attacks, it becomes difficult to pinpoint a culprit. The collection of evidence becomes tricky and eyewitnesses are never forthcoming.

The police cannot be unaware that in many cases they are coming back to certain death at the hands of their relatives and fellow villagers. Yet, pre-emptive action to protect them is never taken. Undoubtedly, the virus of caste and class that affects those carrying out such crimes affects the police in the area too. But that can be no excuse to sanction murder. Active policing and serious penal sanctions is the only antidote to this most dishonourable practice.so,keep watching the colourful flash news on your display screen,for it to fade away for the swampy and irresponsible media that gets on to next story.nor the cry and agony of the lost ones is going to fade for them to unravel the mystery mystically and still walk brave on the roads head held high.alarmed minds hopefully make sure such incidents don't happen anymore,if at all any such in our country.

A BANG UP NOVEL!:midnight's children by SALMAN RUSHIDE

Have you ever felt the need to know what exactly fantasy fiction is? If yes, this is an excellent book by a master story teller. This book is strictly to those people who accept the writer’s imagination, and are able to define with it; else any one seriously examining this book is going to find it full of Indian english jargon.The second important thing to read this book, is you should have the nerve and patience to read through Salman Rushdie’s prose. Sometimes, there are sentences (without fullstop) carrying over 1 full page. Imagine one sentence from top to bottom of the page… It’s difficult to continue with that kind of writing but if you do get with these entitled enigma and these minor things, then behold, for before you,lies one of the greatest books written in history!

The story is as usual written in first person and begins with a remark on our independence. In fact in real sense, it is an autobiography of the fictional character. He begins with his birth, which by the stroke of luck, was at midnight on the day India gained freedom. Similarly like him hundreds of other children are born too and they all have one thing in common, the power of telepathy! All the people born on the stroke of midnight on Independence Day, 1947, have these powers!.The story begins in Bombay, moves to Pakistan, then to Bangladesh, to Bengal, to so many places, before eventually ending at Bombay again. The character explains his journeys and what he experiences with similar people born on the same day (midnight’s children). The political and historic backdrop which Salman Rusdhie has used, works very well with the story. So well, that one might not notice that Gandhi is killed on a wrong day instead of January 30th 1948. Don’t worry, the book is full of chronological disorders, but that was the way the book was written in the first place.The events co-incide and influence his life in more ways than one. Rushdie also takes a dig at Indira Gandhi, as the Widow, who is in fact also the main villain of the story! The Widow is out to kill all the gifted children, ‘cause she fears them. Of course, the gifted children as they are, do manage to escape.

The author then returns to Bombay to carry on with his life in a pickle factoryRushdie’s main charm lies in the way he has mixed all the political events of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh effectively in the story; more so for the fact, almost all the events are at wrong times in history and yet its difficult to notice it!! Language has always been Rushdie’s forte. I cannot think of any other writer who can convey a 4-pageful of facts in 4 lines. The humour and sarcasm too are very well written and placed in the bookMidnight’s Children is a story that makes excellent reading. It’s classic Rushdie. That’s what makes it excellent. But it’s that excellency – that Rushdie ability to create-a-perfect-story – is what keeps it from perfection.an intact and well coarsed style of writing has given him the best of unexpected twists,stealing the aortic blood in the readers mind.And in my opinion it truly deserved the BOOKER of BOOKERS.:):)