The Death Of an Beautiful Idiot? A few words on the brave and bold Quindel Baloch Basu Ka Bakwas

Basu  Ka Bakwas

When I first read the news that Quindel Baloch was no more my first response was a dismissive shake of my shoulder .Who would or why would anybody dispose of the idiot blond persona like our own Poonam Panday,Rakhi Sawant etc.A upcoming starlet doing what needs to be done to get a foothold in the circus of the absurd  from Pakistan. Tantalizing, teasing with bold revealing avatars but not going all commando, leaving us all wanting more. Making bold asserastions like going naked if the Pakistan team wins a la Poonam and then breaking down hysterical in a tank top from the country of the hizab.That video was the most shared for a few minutes then the minutes up where’s Alia Bhatt. She was what we all wanted a break from our done to death and too repetitive to be interesting tantrums of a desi cute girl. Something fresh from our neighbor other than threats, hate and terror. Just when we couldn’t get enough of dear Baloch reality breaks my skepticism born of a hope that humans everywhere are the same including starlets. Sexy,cute  Quindel lies dead like a  broken doll ,strangled by   wait for it her brother  and the reason hold on this is important, I want to underline this point with a big bold red line for honor.

Apparently it was dishonorable  for a young women to strut her body and mind openly in public .This affront can only be remedied by giving  her adams apple a nice squeeze.Was that not the entire point of her being who she was a starlet among the infinite others that make our day a little less mundane. There was an infinite support wave on social media and the usual dirty girl deserving her bit garbage. What caught my attention was a justification that went, could we imagine that our sisters strutting their wares on public what we would we  have done. What age are we in ,aren’t there actresses in India ,do they not have brother fathers and boyfriends. Our sisters are employed where they want and are independent with boyfriends ,cant imagine strangling them for their choices.

Then there is the act itself where is the honour in wringing the neck of a women in cold blood. Was there honour in trumpling random people under a truck,gunning people in a resturent etc.What good will it do to the reputation of Pakistan its inhabitants and their fate? What sort of depravity justifies an act of a man which considers women as a object than a person.

I went through her few last twits and videos ironic the last Video had the line “Tere thumka pe lag zane ban (your gyrating waist is going to be banned) baby please don’t do it again”. I can understand the canonization of Burhan Wani but the killing of a loud mouth who was lampooning   both the Maulana and Modi beggars belief .Not a very smart thing to do in Pakistan apparently as we found out. Our neighbor is not what we want it to be ,but what it actually is a very dangerous place for anyone in close proximity. Sadly a beautiful siren falls silent and Pakistan dies another death.

Jackass on primetime

The lack of serious debate in Indian media

Basu Ka Bakwas

First for the uninitiated Jackass is an show on Mtv which really pushed the envelope on reality TV. The show involved participants doing acts which by any standard can be considered outright dangerous, painful and demeaning. Then again it was well received; viewed and inspired a unending series of spin offs and is continuing to this day.

Sounds familiar lets go a bit further. This is the age of information explosion Utube,Vice News ,Face book and an unending streams of information anything you want you have at the blink of a nano second. Hence too much compition for traditional brick and morter News channels sensation is the name of the new game.Hence debates are more of a street corner fight where the loudest and not necessarily the most logical downgrades everything into a cat fight.

After the last general elections every body else are short of agenda,credible leaders and listning ears.Hence comes the Jackass if they cannot listen to arguments they can always react to abuse. The more impending elections the more shrill the drama and lo and behold it generates enough fear psychosis among the target audience the vote banks and you live to loot another day.

 Last time it was Dadri realy I am yet to stretch my imagination enough to connect a grisly murder in a non bjp ruled state having regular law and order issues to prime minister Modi.What was Akhilesh Yadav doing was he realy killed for beef there are contradictory reports. How many muslims got murdered in UP was it ever investigated that whether Modi or rising Intolerence was responsible. If Akhilesh is so power less in his own state shouldn’t he request emergency to be imposed.This things didn’t got discussed instead the beef debate ,returning of who is he recipient etc.Then there was enough drama to convince a section that Lalu is still worth it let time have the last opinion on that.People aught to learn from their mistakes but in a democracy you have the privilege not to.

Now it has started again do something incredibly offensive in country where the average people have little more than beliefs to sustain themselves and are quick to take offense.

Get bombarded virtually in the social media where everybody is judge jury and executioner and physically elsewhere. Get  on national Tv  who expectedly wont or cant find audiences for debates on real issues of degrading of  law and order,health or education are most complaint play the victim card .I think both have to mature a Jackass show runs on Jackass audiences.  

I am reminded of the former cabinet minister who now has doubts on the conviction and consequent hanging of Afzal Guru.Realy? why did you not get at least the President to commute the death sentence to life.

I had hoped that when former national party giants loose the goodwill ,introspect raise better issues than a suit and a boot. Then no such luck in reality TV land where  we wont discuss Malda but we will discuss JNU.Producing such illustrious debtors or at least hyper lime lighting them that everything else is on the back ground. So fantastic that having a debate with them is akin to explain not to  chew everything in reach  to an infant their reaction stay glum silent, force decibaly their repotire of limited idea and vocabulary when all else fails kick,roll on the ground and rupture eardrums. While cute to watch my kid do so when adults on whom national resources are invested do the same sadly hard to call it cute.

Elections are coming and in states where the parties have failed abysmally and are propped up by rabble rousing mullahs with dreams of puritan utopia.Should we as a nation relegate serious news hour to Mtv Jackass grade entertainment?only time will tell.

The Basu: Theirs not to reason why,

The Basu: Theirs not to reason why,

Theirs not to reason why,

Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
    Someone had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred

“The charge of the light brigade “

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Our truant prince is back and in the best of time election a few days back in Bengal and Punjab  ,Malda quietly tucked away behind silent media ,TMC blockade and public amnesia,Modi getting his credibility  transfigured by yours peacefull neighbor.Then to top it all is the Gajendra Singh moment the sucide of the dalit. Dadri got Bihar Rohith might get Bengal considering there is a fresh alliance on the horizon with guess who ? the CPI(M).

Politics is to be played over bodies proving once and for all that no bridge is too high or price too big for getting to power.Cyncisim is the  order of the day  however one feels sorry for the sucide bomber for exactly what he will be reduced to.Like with Gajendra an stunt gone wrong or in the case of Rohith a case of misguided zeal taken too far he will be debated on tv ,lionized in headlines and stretched to connect hindu Zionism plot holes.All so that secular  credentials live to fight another day.

Hard not to sneer but then these are fellow Indians sacrificed on the altar of politics. That’s even before the cause of his suicide is out of the open reported and distorted to fit the stereotypes.The truth my friends we will now never know.He is already the martyr a minority of politicians nedded and true or not that’s all he will ever be.

However at the end of the day Rohith will be dead and nothing will fill his absence for his friends and family.India is turning a new path for better or worse age old macauly –marx education system are slowly being questioned on merits of idolizing lost ideas at the cost of at cost of Indian culture  ,so are governments  with social revolution thought and nothing tangible else. Change is the only constant and we are seeing the effects.

Hence politics of rehotric and chauvinism are slowly dying their natural death .However the soon  to be orphans are propping it up on the lives of scapegoats.Worse as a country we are swallowed into the tragedy of using death as a drama for headlines.Should some one not condem it. Many are rusticated for much lesser crime than spreading hatred like”har ghar se Yakub niklega “ and  most don’t take the extreme step.Groomed in the fertilizer of so called oppression and watered by the chauvinism of correcting historic wrongs  he like others had to escalate a case of juvenile college politics to the higher stage at the price of his own life.Should he been allowed the luxury of thought   that things are way different and times have changed a long time back.Sucide need not be salivation any more.That idea is no longer relevant or appriciated.Sadly nothing to get the eyeballs other than the corpse of a a research fellow of a particular community.

 I would say too that this is not exactly a suicide more of a murder and “pro bono” who benefits.

Shouldn’t the leftist leaders taken their class battle somewhere else other than the campus of an university.Shouldent the terrorism promoters find someone else to raise their begger all sense slogans .Guess not.

"Liberty is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses." As per the French revolutionary Louis-Antoine St. Just,.Should our liberties and justices be churned from  death.Like the French reign of terror the spectacles have to be gut wrenching and worth dying for to be relevant .

How much corpses till Rahul and his elk  are back in their scam funded palaces that’s one countdown we could have done without  on national media.Then again sucide bombers sensationalizing lost causes for fifteen minutes of tv headline fame that’s primetime or showtime for India nowadays.