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Well the Tejpal wave is over, now it is the BJP and Congress prodding the AAP to walk the plank chained, even though the two bunnies could go it together 🙂

His attempt to recuse himself was damn funny though 😀

Exactly. And that’s precisely why I disagree with the author. He has completely missed the point. To me as a journalist, it is less about conformity and more about betrayal.

Very well presented. This sums it up for me ! Thanks Nehag.

This brand of ‘journalism of outrage’ or tehelka-esque journalism, that Mr. Kane mentioned, can well be argued as good or bad or better. For me, how this story has been covered has at the very least, brought forward an issue worth becoming aware of, that is, sexual harassment in the workplace. Perhaps a lot of women who have been going through varying levels of such abuse in their own lives will become slightly less fearful of their perpetrators, and for me, that’s something worth doing!

A lot of people come back to Nirbhaya’s case. Unfortunately it has become like the “maximum level” on our Indian barometer of ‘abused women’. Anyhow, was there not a verdict passed by the media and by all of us, during this case much before the courts verdict this September? Was that more acceptable to a lot of you simply because the men in question were not part of your society? We need to stop comparing cases of abuse and much worse choosing between which suits us and doesn’t come all too close to our own lives. While Schadenfreude is truly a fancy word, I’m pretty certain that Tejpal’s crime (for that is what it is because he and the woman in question have both acknowledged it as so) will not make me “feel better about my own sorry life”.

If we must pick a word, I’d go with “trivialize”. So a bunch of Tejpal’s so called friends didn’t stand up for him, and I should care about that because? Why must I wonder what kind of relationship Tejpal had with his friends and foes? That’s office politics- Tejpal a man who was enviable amongst his brand of people for the power he had, finally falls from glory, and a mob of bitter people choose to be his opposition, and….? yes? We shouldn’t hurt Tejpal’s feelings and make him feel singled out?

His crime, was an abuse of power. Much like all cases of sexual abuse. THAT should be the focus rather than going on about how Tejpal is so much more if we ignore the elephant in the room. Of-course Tejpal isn’t the only one, but that’s not to say that we must sympathize for he is the first to be brought out in the open. By all means, all should wait for the verdict, but as a democracy you, me and anyone else can in a never-ending sort of way, go on with our own opinion.

It irks me that you actually think that people’s outrage is conformity, and while that doesn’t literally translate to you condoning the crime, the fact that your focus is on the bitter intentions of people because Tejpal is so cool like that, is as if your in support of the fellow. You don’t need to “dumb-down” anything because what you are saying is that the people who are expressing disgust over the Tejpal issue are doing this because it’s the safer thing to do. Honestly, if people are supporting the right cause out of the fear of being left out, eventually their embarrassment may have them question their own intentions during their own daily lives. Isn’t that a step in the right direction?

A kind of verdict has certainly already been passed through the media and through all of us, but, looking at it from a bit of a distance, isn’t all this frenzy a good thing, when women in our society are genuinely made to fit into patriarchal structures and systems?

Thanks Neeta..

Thanks Sharmila