Yes, I do know the term is "sacrificial lamb". There is a lovely description of this "divine"(!) spectacle in Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Yet what our blog is today going to discuss hardly deserves the sanctity traditionally associated with the sacrificial lamb. Anyways, personally, I am absolutely against any animal sacrifice.
Yet the horror we are going to discuss needs the term. Hence the title. Actually, I do know that these poor animals are very sensitive. Just behind our backyard, in the chawl, stayed a family who kept a goat. I used to feed the kid banana, and all other such extremely edible, leaves from our garden. He used to recognise my voice from some fifteen feet away. On the day before Eid, he knew instinctively what was going to happen to him.
He was fed some soporific. Till he could keep his eyes open, he kept on staring at me, and chewing the banana leaves as cud. I was ready to buy him off from the owner, and give him total freedom in a forest. My Muslim colleague felt that such a move would cause a communal riot. So I had to keep quiet, though I almost cried my eyes out.
Next year, that family got a nanny goat who had three kids, and she was herself a little lame. She would complain to me, creating a huge ruckus if any one of her kids was taken away from her sight. I had to console her not to worry, and that all was well. Believe me, she would whimper, but calm down. In brief, my sympathies are with any/every goat, gender/age being no bar.
Yet I am going to use that expression, given the theme of our blog today. Yes, let us discuss the sordid saga of Kharat. No, I have not watched any of the videos. I possibly cannot even imagine watching any such trash.
Yet every newspaper, each YouTube has the gory deeds in sordid details. Why, our own C.M., otherwise a genuinely sensible man, mentioned Kharat's horrific activities in graphic details, it seems, in the Vidhan Sabha, from whence it jumped even on to college campuses where students' language is anyways awful, full of ugly expletives, and so on. Remember the theme of our blog yesterday?
Well, to come back to that horror called Kharat, based on what is reported, I feel that currently he is used as the sacrificial goat so that everybody else involved can appear squeaky clean.
Let us begin with women. Even a virgin has an intuitive inkling when a man is "thinking" in an ugly way about her. In Kharat's case, the so-called victims are all much married women with children. Tough to believe their "sixth sense" did not warn them. How come none of them reported to their families about some ugly drink?
I refuse to believe that they could not tell their families/husbands. These very wives and daughters-in-law would fight their throats hoarse/dry over minor most issues! True, there might have been hypnotism. Yet why would they return to such an ugly place the nth time? Is it the case that they, too, wanted all the benefits, and hence had a silent, subtle approval of/agreement with the entire process?
Look at the VIP's. Sure just a pic cannot incriminate anyone, especially in the AI era today which makes any "photoshop" blush, given its 're-creation-al' abilities! Yet how could very many ministers, given the reach and the power they have, not know that weirdo? After such knowledge, what faith!?!
Hence the niggling doubt that ALL involved were perfectly aware of what they were participating in. They most probably wanted to reap the benefits of such horror rituals. Now that all is exposed, to prove themselves clean, they are pretending innocence!
Hence that awful godman(!!!) appears to be a sacrificial goat, conveniently carrying all the blame! Given the staggering financial deals, tough it is to believe that the involved were not aware of all the murky muck.
That social eye sore, Kharat, is like the Walya figure whom Narada meets in the forest! His wife has reportedly run away, all the mean and mighty have deserted him, all his former devotees darken his reputation. All behave as if all of them, at least in their late twenties, were innocence personified whom the wicked wretch worked in!
No, absolutely NO sympathies for the crook. Yet this is just to wonder at the hypocrisy and the washing off hands of all the involved. Hence the title of our blog!
Pratima@ 'A saint till caught' seems to be the mantra of such goings-on. Is it the work of superstition? Tough to believe! Generally, the rural folks are street smart when it comes to the ways of the world! They have quite some time on their hand to gossip about the goings-on, imaginary and/or real. I do have hence the suspicion that ALL the involved knew what was up, willingly joined in, and now that all that trash has spilled over out in public, they are pretending to be victims! Hence the title of the blog!
Quote of the day: 'Better not to play a victim to the circumstances you yourself created!' Based on an Instragram post quoted on the Google.
Word of the day: fake Fake refers to something not genuine, intended to deceive by imitating something real, or the act of simulating/forging something. It covers counterfeit objects (e.g., fake art), fraudulent actions (e.g., faking a signature), and bogus imposters like Kharat and his sham followers.
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