My mother says that when things take a turn for the worse,
laughter is the best medicine and hence I am going to make Mr. Tejpal the butt
of this blog to make my sisters smile.
And also rub it in I am going to refer to this person as Mr.
Tejpal, the annotation preceding the name being as discordant as the act that
he committed. So as events turn out, Mr.
Tejpal was in Goa for a ‘Thinkfest’. Aha what better a place to make a drunken
fool of yourself, alas a young lady was at the receiving end of those antics or
shall I say ‘drunken banter’. So a few,
loose slurred words, free conversational snippets thrown at the lady as a
result of inebriated state; heck we are in Goa for God’s sakes so what’s a few
one too many and what’s a few words here and there so what if they are sexual
in nature, come on we are Goa, the young lady should learn to take in the right
‘spirit’, the right spirit of course being indulging Mr. Tejpal his ‘banter
antics….” Young lady you have a lot to
learn here.
That lesson being delivered to the young lady, shall we now
turn our attention to the esteemed Mr. Tejpal who pioneered sensational
journalism in pursuit of justice and bringing the high and mighty on their
knees (err…not for those reasons. Then
Mr. Tejpal still wore the righteous ‘Fab India’ Kurta Pyjama literally and
figuratively and had a pen stuck in his pocket). Now he looks like Ass I am Bapu. And follows
his spirit too! The managing editor of
Tehelka (which Mr. T founded and edits and chief) has said that the victim was
attacked on two occasions by Mr. Brilliant and these incidents were followed
intimidation the sort that run on these line- you know what you need to do to keep
your job’ Sheeeh, I almost spat out in
anger and disgust.
But wait, Mr. not so young and no longer brilliant has been
swept by remorse and has apparently shot off a letter to the lady asking her
apology and that there was a ‘bad lapse of judgment’ Well what do we have here? A bad lapse of judgment
indicates that he decided to molest lady but that doing it in this fashion was
a ‘bad lapse of judgment’. Because this
is what a lapse in judgment means. It means hiring the wrong people, it means
making deals with people you are going to regret, it means taking up the wrong
job, it means making out in the elevator knowing fully well there are ccTV
cameras. It means trusting the wrong
people. Now all this are instance of lapse in judgment. Since when has molesting, raping, heaping
sexual innuendos become a part of ‘bad judgment’? You are ready, dick in hand,
drink in head, with full intent to make wrongful advances of the non-mutual
kind and go ahead later only to realize what you stand to lose….now now, boy,
that is not bad judgment that is bad moral fabric, rotten, thin on the verge of
tearing. That you perceive it is bad judgment only means that you thought it
should have been done at some other time maybe? Or with another person?
I am so disappointed with these excuses. Being inebriated is the oldest excuse in the
book. Well if you were drunk Tarun, then why didn’t you jump in the pool, or
the sea with your clothes or without,
dance on the table a la Shabana Azmi *( but she was not drunk and did not
molest anybody). Why didn’t you start a
laugh riot or make an advance on a
young man instead of a young woman? Why did you not indulge in a bit of rumpy
pumpy with your male colleague?
All people in power (men and women) are drunk on power
and also shrewd. You did the right thing (for yourself) by shooting off a
letter as a form of unconditional apology and even indulged in a little
righteous self- flagellation by recusing yourself as the editor for the next 6
months.
What’s the hurry Mr. Tejpal? Don’t want the world to know
that what a naughty boy you have been?
That you wanted chase some skirt and take the chase to its rightful
conclusion (I don’t know how that was possible in a drunk state though). Now that we know, really, there is no need to hurry. Let your name and mug be flashed in
newspapers across the country, let the heinous word ‘rape’ be associated with
your name, let us subject you to complete humiliation in your chaste
kurtas. I hear you have a wife and kids
(daughter among them). What do they
feel? Do they look at you in disgust, refuse
to let you come near them, refuse to touch them? A touch that was once fatherly, paternal,
encouraging?
What’s the hurry for doing ‘penance’ for the act that ‘lacerates’
you? Now that the public has knowledge,
let there be ‘chee tu’ and a complete
fall from hallowed grace that you enjoyed.
Enjoy the ignominy and mortification because you showed ‘lapse in judgment’.
Sister, my heart goes out to you. Be strong and take the
effing bastard down!
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