Justice For Twisha Sharma

Extremely sad to learn about Twisha Sharma. 

Many such cases do not see the light of the day.

Pray that there is justice for Twisha Sharma soon.

It is said- “Kanoon ke haath lambe hote hain”.

Law has long arms.

It is supposed to catch up with the culprits and criminals.

After media follow-up and pressure, public outrage, and suo motu cognizance by many including the Supreme Court, this Twisha Sharma case is at the juncture where it is now.

If no voices were raised, this would have been buried under the carpet as just another suicide case.

Worse, the character assassination was presented and narrative was set in such a matter-of-fact authoritative way about a dead girl who cannot defend herself!

The Smart Assistant

A business tycoon was found dead in his office-room.

The CCTV had been tampered.

“Do you notice anything unusual here?” the police asked his personal assistant when she arrived at the crime scene.

One look at his room and she pointed at the packaged water-bottle.

Photo- Marie Gail Stratford

Empowered

“Where did they go?” wondered the detectives when they reached the ruins where the four missing young men had reportedly gone with an elegant lady.

Photo Prompt- Ruins – © 2015, Barbara W. Beacham

It was enigmatic that they just found a lipstick and some empty packets there, but no trace of the young men or the lady.

Earlier, the young men had felt empowered when they picked that well-endowed easy target whom they planned to entice with drugs at the ruins.

Picture Prompt- Magpie Tales

It Was A Valentine's Day Eve...

It was a Valentine's eve and he was driving in an isolated road. He found it odd to see an abandoned car parked there with doors open. A distant cry triggered him to stop his car to check if things were alright. He peeked into the car's back door and found  fresh blood spots at the back seats. That's when he witnessed a masked man approaching the abandoned car...

He could see a lady's body slumped lifelessly on the car's front seat. Probably it was her loud cry that had alarmed him. He couldn't see her face as it was dark.

"Is this all happening for real? Seems like a Bollywood movie!" he thought alarmed as he tried to hide behind the abandoned car. 

The masked man had reached the car's front door and was checking if the lady was really dead. Looking convinced, the man left on his bike. Luckily, that masked man never suspected the other hidden visitor nor did he spot his car. Else, perhaps he would suffer the same fate as the lady...

He breathed a sigh of relief. He pulled out his phone to inform the police, but found there was no network-signal in that area. He used the torch-light of his phone to check out the victim's face. He was shocked to find that it was her...

Abandon The Solitude

He was happy with his beautiful wife,
and enjoyed a carefree & blissful life.

Like a butterfly on a flower, I was present on every date,
fluttering and witnessing everything lovely and intimate.

Photo Prompt- Magpie Tales- Mag 255

Justice For Her

They were wedded & looked a lovely pair.

Their marital life had problems in its share...

She had a spat with her hubby in the flight.

Instead of home, she checked into a hotel after fight.

Hubby checked in to the same hotel the next day.

She pointed fingers at him & his ways.

She took to the social media where she had many a fan.

She accused him of relations with another woman.

Pic-Prompt; Used with permission from Magpie Tales

Sunanda Pushkar - Some Qs & As

Sunanda Pushkar was a gutsy lady. She lived on her own terms. Her life-story shows that she was no stranger to ups and downs, having survived many tragedies in the past. Each time life served her a shock, she was ready like a shock-absorber and emerged stronger. 

I admired her all the more when I saw her life-story recently. Like most people, even I knew about her from the IPL news headlines, her marriage to the author & minister… and would never have known so much about her but for the Social Media episode followed by her unfortunate death last week.

Last Friday, I was totally shocked when I saw a tweet “RIP Sunanda Pushkar”. I was busy with my First Twitter Quiz As Curator & came to learn of the breaking-news late, that too from Twitter where the drama of accusations and counter-allegations had all begun some hours ago.

It was, and still is, hard to digest… Why would such a person with a zest for life, end her own life herself? 

But, speculations are rife… Autopsy report shows 27 tablets of Alprax have caused her death. They even looked for the absent ‘suicide note’. 

She certainly doesn’t deserve the unfair allegations/judgment or getting branded the way she presently is. As my Blogger-friend, Preethi commented, “She will be tossing and turning in her grave seeing all these comments.”

But, why was her life cut short so abruptly?  I feel she had access to confidential info... What was that secret that triggered her murder?

I always knew the autopsy reports would indicate drug-overdose/poisoning. However, I can never subscribe to the idea that she committed suicide because she was severely ‘unwell/depressed/suffering/jealous’. This is a murder-mystery where the whodunit is the moot question… Many agree that we’ll never get to know the answer…

Sunanda was not the average Indian woman. She was self-made and successful and a wealth-creator of crores of fortune. How many Indian women are that modern and go for a third-marriage? It takes guts to do what we wish to do. 

It takes courage to voice what we exactly feel in life & in Social Media. Social Media is a part of life now. In this fake world, everyone paints an ‘All Is Well’ picture, shoving everything under the carpet & putting skeletons in the cupboard, though the reality is starkly different. 

Sunanda Pushkar had the courage to ‘wash dirty linen in public’. Why would a wife speak about her partner in public? That’s when she has tried everything and feels that this is the last resort… No wife would exactly celebrate if her husband exchanged personal messages with another woman… As she exposed her husband and had an open spat, Sunanda was accused that she has “no respect for her marriage.”

This is not an image that the public wants to see. Indian women are expected to be docile and Patiwrata and shield their husband even if the latter happens to be a wife-beater, philanderer or has a mistress or even a second-wife, though that’s illegal! If the husband does indulge in extra-marital relations even if they happen to be of the ‘intellectual’ kind, it is the poor wife’s fault! People justify that the wife is not ‘good enough’ or is to be blamed for whatever the husband does, which is so unfair…

But, if the wife indulges in an ‘affair’, it’s sacrilege! Even if she is totally pure, still her character is suspected. In the Ramayana, Maryada Purshottam Lord Shri Ram had asked his wife, Devi Sita to prove her chastity by the Agni Pariksha. When Gods behave so, what can we say for the lesser mortals on Earth in the KalYug?!

But, it must be noted that Sunanda had sided up with her husband and trashed the other woman in the story, putting all the blame on the ‘Woh’ in the ‘Pati, Patni & Woh’ Twitter drama. Sunanda accused the ‘Woh’ for all her woes & for wrecking her marriage while opining that the other woman ‘stalked’ her husband and “Men are stupid anyways.”

But, Sunanda even countered her husband’s claim when he said that his Twitter account had been hacked. She stuck to the truth & owned up that she had leaked those BBM messages. She stressed that she never lies.

As per the statement released, Sunanda was very 'ill'. If yes, why was she shifted to the hotel instead of the hospital?

Why was she 'ill' in the first place?

I feel the BBM text-messages were as real as her invitations to the journalists. It is a pity that none of them heeded to her request to meet her at her Leela Hotel-room… 

In this News-Video, Rahul Kanwal speaks about Sunanda Pushkar.

Little Did She Know nor did anyone suspect that she’ll be no more the next day to narrate her story… 

Even if the Media/Police/public is all ears to hear her now, she cannot come to defend herself as has been silenced forever…

Who bruised & killed her? 

Why did Sunanda have to pay with her life? 

Being forthright, earnest and honest kills?

Will the truth triumph?

Will the guilty be brought to book for cutting short a beautiful life?

Will there be justice for Sunanda Pushkar?

Many questions remain unanswered…

This Post is not 'paid' or written under threat... All these are my own independent ideas & personal views from what I have seen and read in the past week...