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Comments for Vrinda Grover and others about the Tejpal case

This is with regard to Vrinda Grover's facebook post as well as assorted defenders of Tejpal's poor, helpless victim, which I cannot comment on individually to engage in debate, so I am choosing to respond here. To clarify my stand with regard to this case, I do not know Tarun Tejpal personally, ...

Vidyut
5 years ago

tehelka-case

Two important questions about the chargesheet against Tarun Tejpal

The 12 volume chargesheet against Tarun Tejpal seems to be a case of piling up enough trees to obfuscate the woods. I have not read the chargesheet and am going by media reports, which is why it took me so much time to ask - I had to be certain. I would be happy to be proved wrong, but these ques...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Politically incorrect declaration by an extremely conditional feminist

I have a voice and it has weight. However great or little it is. It is my responsibility to use it in a manner that is congruent with my goals. I have an interest in women's empowerment. I have an interest in women getting justice. In justice being accessible to more and more women. A video went ...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Woman kills neighbour who tried to rape her 5-year-old daughter

A woman in Jharkhand has killed her neighbour for trying to rape her five year old daughter. The woman was out of her home for work when the neighbour misbehaved with her daughter. When she returned, her daughter told her. In a fit of rage, she bludgeoned the man to death. While it isn't the pret...

Vidyut
6 years ago

tarun tejpal police arrested

The strange case of rapist Tarun Tejpal

It is over two months that Tarun Tejpal has been in jail for raping a woman who did not want to file a police complaint. His chargesheet keeps getting delayed, and so does bail. Since I have taken a lot of interest in how this is unfolding, I decided to follow up and I still think that this case ...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Anger with elite misusers of protections to women

Thoughtless protections and rabid lawmaking by our government have brought us to this point where the laws to protect women are a joke. We are just blindly tweaking. A court accepting a rape victim's statement has now become everybody and his cousin and media having to accept victim's statement a...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Hindsight: Lessons from the Tehelka scandal

It is clear that among the things done wrongly in the Tehelka scandal, some are obvious (like DO NOT RAPE), others have been discussed (Like DO NOT COVER UP A RAPE) and still more resulted from media failure in maintaining an objective view. These are largely unique to this case. Well, the rape i...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Percentage of time devoted to rural news on TV

Who really concealed the Tehelka rape case?

This has been bothering me for a while now. It is an extension of one of the points in the questions I have raised about the Tehelka rape case. The girl's letter to Shoma mentions that she shared her ordeal immediately with 3 people. The three people who know what has happened - all Tehelka emplo...

Vidyut
6 years ago

Some questions about the Tarun Tepal rape scandal #Tehelka

When the email about Tejpal's recusing himself from his job for six months leaked, I took it at face value and was angry with Tarun Tejpal and Shoma Chaudhary. Shoma's refusal to form a sexual harassment committee whipped it into fury. There was no way that a sexual harassment committee was not r...

Vidyut
6 years ago