[Reader-list] Crime and No Punishment: Malegaon Blast Accused Get a Respite

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Rakesh
 
You have gone off on a tangent from the the point I was trying to highlight. Quite obviously I failed.
 
My point was not about having a bias or about discussing biases. Nor was it about you or anyone else.
 
My point was about the discussion in this thread begining to veer towards a direction where it might end up discussing religions and religious scriptures and the precepts drawn from how they are propagated and how they are followed. 
 
Since 'uss hamaam mein sabb nangay hain' people then have to resort to cover-ups.   
 
Kshmendra

--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Crime and No Punishment: Malegaon Blast Accused Get a Respite
To: "Kshmendra Kaul" <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 5:17 PM



Kshamendra jee
 
The question is not of not having bias. As a human being, it is certainly normal to have a bias. Shuddha jee is biased towards democracy, Pawan jee is biased towards justice to Pandits and punishment of Yasin Malik, the BJP is biased towards Hindutva way of life, and the Left is biased towards anti-Americanism. (And I am particularly biased towards right to food, and certainly Hindutva politics because of the ideology it espouses) 
 
What is important is whether such a bias is justifiable, as Sen says, in the promotion of freedoms and rights to people, which enhance their capabilities and help them to lead their lives as they value. This is where the Hindutva way of life must be condemned because it doesn't allow certain people to lead their lives as they want (and here I am taking out secularists and looking at the problem from the angle of minorities themselves). And this is against human rights, as much as are the activities of the Taliban and the terrorists who live in our own society, enjoy the very same rights as others do, and yet don't allow other to enjoy those rights. 
 
And to find out whether such a bias is justifiable or not, public discussion is necessary. This is what allows all of us to decide for our own selves what is justifiable and what is not. I condemn BJP and some of the harsh measures they like to implement in various forms (like anti-terror laws) specifically because they serve the objective of the terrorists themselves, which is to restrict the rights of citizens and make them feel harassed and deprived. That is not what we should give in to
 
Moreover, biases can also change with public discussion. My own bias for pro-BJP was changed once I got to discuss about its policies with other people. Before that, I thought one should be always nationalistic (something like Vedavati jee is). Till I managed to discuss about the issues of course. 
 
So what I wish to say is that, if someone can prove that BJP's actions which I am suspicious of, are actually enhancing rights of citizens and their freedoms, please go ahead and we may think about it certainly. 
 
Regards
 
Rakesh
 
--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Crime and No Punishment: Malegaon Blast Accused Get a Respite
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 2:25 PM







very soon
from 
investigative biases
to
prosecutorial biases
to
judicial biases
to
biases of organisations linked with religions
to
biases of personalities of such organisations
 
this discussion will move to criticism of religions and then the scriptures
 
there will be plenty for everyone to quote from