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Everybody knows which is the rape capital of India; a survey nails it again

The brutal gang-rape of a girl in Delhi in December 2012 again justified Delhi's title ignominious title as ‘the rape capital of India.’ The growing number of crimes against women has proved the city’s inability to provide safety to this vulnerable section of society.

According to a recent TripAdvisor survey, "Delhi is voted to be the most unsafe city while Mumbai is ranked as the safest city." Bangalore and Ahmedabad are rated as second most safe cities of India. Around 94 per cent foreign female respondents expressed their fear of visiting India alone, but not when they travel to other international destinations. This fear can be gauged by browsing the records of National Crime Records Bureau. According to NCRB, 24,206 incidents of rape and molestation were recorded in India in 2012, which is a rise of 9 per cent over the last year. Delhi alone recorded over 4,000 rape cases in 2011. More than half of the reported cases had victims between the age group of 18 and 30. A 2009 government crime report said that about 24 percent of total rape cases and above 40 per cent of cases of kidnapping and abduction of women took place in Delhi. In another survey jointly conducted by a women's rights group Jagori and the UN, it waas revealed that two of every three women in Delhi have been sexually harassed at least twice and at the maximum five times in the last one year. Shockingly, 40 per cent of harassment and molestation incidents took place in broad daylight. What is worse, 45 per cent women surveyed felt no cooperation from the police if they approached. Unfortunately, 70 per cent of men interviewed said that they would not intervene and rather be mute spectators.

Delhi Police has earned the reputation of being untrustworthy by local civilians. They have failed to set the environment of 'zero tolerance’ against rape. The conviction rates too are in a complete mess with below average forensic capabilities and very hollow anti-rape laws, despite the recent changes.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2013.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Much ado about nothing

By trivialising and politicising the War Crime Trial, the Awami League regime blew the historic opportunity to punish the 1971 War Criminals through an internationally accepted procedure, says Saurabh Kumar Shahi

After the sentencing of a senior Jamaat e Islami (JI) leader to life in prison last week for crimes against humanity during the 1971 war, Bangladesh is witnessing probably the biggest political turmoil since the 80s and 90s. Abdul Quader Molla, one of the top rung leaders of the JI, is the first political figure to be sentenced by the International Crimes Tribunal, following the verdict against a runaway televangelist who was awarded death penalty in absentia.

The verdict was followed by protests by the mass of urban liberal Bangladeshis who gathered at the Shahbagh More locality demanding more stringent punishment for the war criminals. The latter only intensified their protest after one of the bloggers and organisers of the protest was brutally killed outside his home. On the other hand, sensing the government's mood of altogether banning them, strengthened by the adoption of the required amendment by the parliament, the JI and its student union has stated a nationwide protest that will make or break its future.

The issue of war crimes is a complex one and it was but natural that the trials would evoke dramatically opposite reactions. However, the way the process has been politicised has taken the lustre out of it.

It can be historically substantiated that JI and its Razakars helped the Pakistani army suppress the revolt in 1971, leading to horrendous crimes. It can also be proved without a reasonable doubt that many of its leaders were aligning against the popular national mood. However, the regime in power as well as other supporters of the trial have singularly failed to parade enough eye witnesses to testify against them. Also, the tribunal will have to ascertain whether these Razakars and JI leaders committed crimes against humanity by organising genocides of the unarmed population or merely targeting armed Bengali freedom fighters.  

Sheikh Hasina's Awami League came to power last time promising a tribunal that would try the war criminals of 1971. However, following her accent, she kept dithering before it became impossible for her, because of persistent pressure from civil rights groups, to further delay the tribunal. Hasina understands that if the tribunal completes its duty and gets international recognition, it will effectively rob her of her most dependable election plank. The fact that her party came to power several times following independence and yet failed to try the war criminals, speaks volume about her commitment.
Naturally, her government flouted several norms while constituting the tribunal, attracting damning criticism from world bodies. The United Nations through its Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, expressed dismay at the trial and maintained: “Capital punishment may be imposed only following proceedings that give all possible safeguards to ensure a fair trial and due process, at least equal to those stipulated in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Bangladesh is a State party.”

Says, Mohammad Nakibur Rahman, a Bangladesh expert based with Tulane University, “Indeed The Economist recently uncovered collusion between the government-prosecution side of the trial and the judiciary. In addition, the unrelenting media campaign has meant that Shahbag protesters have made up their minds regarding the guilt of those in the dock, regardless of the evidence of a doctored trial.”

Others including the US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, Stephen J Rapp, and Human Rights Watch expressed concerned over  “glaring violations of fair trial standards”.  The criticism has not only emboldened the accused, all of whom are members of either JI or the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP); but has also given them an excuse to say that they were victims of a political vendetta.

Even longtime supporters of the cause, for example journalist David Bergman, have criticised the entire process. “The government has unjustifiably prevented their international lawyers from coming to Bangladesh and assisting them in the court room. Also, even though the substantive matters of guilt and innocence are currently before for the tribunal, some of the most influential printed media continue to talk about the men as though they were guilty and their convictions a foregone conclusion. Moreover, on the other side of the coin, the possibilities of journalists here in Bangladesh being able to write critical commentary about the tribunal are decreasing. The attacks on Al Jazeera and myself are tantamount to that,” he maintained.

Experts also believe that Hasina's gambit might not find traction in the coming elections. Banning JI, although desirable, will only send the signal to the poor rural masses – where JI has its hold – that only family run parties like AL and BNP have a place in the democracy. Also, even if the party is banned, its members can always constitute a new party or merge with BNP.

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An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Book Review : On Warne

Of googlies and flippers

His wasn’t a mere cricket career. It was a full-fledged saga, a non-stop media event, as exasperating as it was exhilarating. Shane Keith Warne has been the subject of many books already – at least 15 at last count. His spectacular achievements as a leg-spinner and spate of misdemeanours as a trouble-prone celebrity are well documented. Yet the two dramatic decades that he spent peddling his incredible wares on the world stage were far too heavily laden with both triumphs and controversies to be fully deconstructed in a single tome.

Veteran journalist Gideon Haigh gives it another shot and makes a fair fist of it. Looking at the life and times of the greatest spinner, if not bowler, of all times through a set of different prisms, On Warne comes up with a well-rounded portrait of a natural born champ who made the headlines around the cricketing world with his exploits both on the field and off it.

Based on interviews with Warne and his mentors and teammates conducted over the years and his own recollections of the bowler in action, Haigh provides perhaps the most illuminating account yet of a man bedevilled by contradictions and still completely taken up by the magic of his craft.

The web that Warne spun around batsmen sprang from simple methods. But the results they achieved were anything but. As he has claimed, cricket found him, and not the other way around. “He was taken in by the game,” Haigh writes, “as he floated through it because of a unique set of circumstances; and that embrace was an outcome not of success but of compound failure, in sport in general, and cricket in particular.”
     
From the making of the legend to the many follies of a life lived under constant scrutiny, replete with brushes with women, diet pills, career-threatening injuries, run-ins with Australian cricket bosses and even a bookmaker, the book tracks the entire Shane Warne story without pulling any punches. The result is a dossier that is as riveting as the master leggie’s magnificent accomplishments.

Warne’s career witnessed many highs and lows, but the unalloyed joy that he brought to the complex art of leg spin bowling remains unparalleled. He was a feared opponent, and not merely for the bag of tricks that he had up his sleeves, but also for the sheer swagger, born from a sense of superiority, that he brought to the contest.

“The essence of spin bowling is to tease and to goad, to incite batsmen to misjudge, overstep, overreach. Warne took it just a little further,” the author writes in the section ‘The Art of Warne’. “He presented the opponent with a narrative. I am better than you, he said; everybody knows this, but circumstances decree we go through the motions of proving the obvious.”

But there was nothing that was obvious in what Sri Lankan batsman Aravinda de Silva called Warne’s “honeytrap”. Haigh refers to Peter Roebuck once likening “young Australians playing English spin in the 1980s to schoolchildren accustomed to calculations suddenly being bombarded with mental arithmetic”. The author stretches that: “English batsmen trying to puzzle Warne out in the 1990s looked like children tackling calculus using their fingers.”

Haigh identifies four distinct stages in Warne’s evolution as a leg-spinner. In the time of Warne 1.0, the bowler “did not so much seem to get batsmen out as defeat them entirely”. He thrived on the novelty factor. This, Haigh writes, “was the ‘leg spin’ about which our elders told us these many years, and damn if it wasn’t just as perplexing as they’d always said”.

While there can be no end to fascinating analysis of the sheer impact of Warne’s bowling on befuddled batsmen, perhaps the most readable part of this book pertains to his relationship with four other ‘pivotal personalities of his era’ McGrath, MacGill,  Waugh and Buchanan”.

Haigh devotes several pages to Warne’s fruitful partnership with McGrath. “For a decade, they were something like an incantation. Other countries had great elisions: Ambrozanwalsh, Donaldanpollock, Wasimanwaqar. But Warnanmagrah were the great conversation stopper. You looked up and down Australia and its opponent on any given day, and there often seemed not much to choose between them on paper. Then you came to Warnanmagrah. They played for Australia, and they were matchless.”

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'More cities should play in the league'

How much is HIL going to benefit Indian hockey in the long run?
It is one of the best things to have happened for Indian hockey. Never before have so many Indian players got the opportunity to play in so many matches for so long. So it is not only benefiting Indian hockey, it is also helping the players. I have seen all the matches. Almost all the matches were of high intensity and high voltage. So I feel it will boost the morale of the players, especially the youngsters.

Can you name youngsters who are doing well in HIL?
Though he is already playing for India, I am really impressed with the performance of Akash Deep. Among the older players, Gurbaj Singh and SV Sunil are playing well. I think there is a good mixture of young and older players in this league.

How do you assess the response of the fans?
The fans are coming to watch the matches. They are appreciating the close contests as well. I think this is just a beginning. In the future there will be huge change in the standard of this league. And that will provide a boost to the potential of the players as well.

Will the improvement impact India's showing in international tournaments?
As I have already said, we can see the change happening because Indian players have never played for such a long stretch with and against top foreign players like Jamie Dawyer, Moritz Fuertse, etc.
Can you tell us what the speciality of Delhi team is. They have done really well in the league?
For me the USP of the Delhi Waveriders is they gel together very well. Almost all the players, whether they are from India or abroad, are equally good. They are all virtually of the same standard. There shouldn't be a huge gap in the experience of two players. For example, in the Punjab team, a few of the players are not as experienced as Jamie Dawyer is, so how can you expect them to keep pace and perform well?

Would you like to see any changes being introduced in future editions of HIL?
I would like to see more teams based in different cities playing in the league. This would allow more hockey fans to see the matches in their own cities and that will generate more opportunity for the players as well.

Would you like to see WSH players being roped in for HIL?
Yes, there were so many good players in World Series Hockey. There were so many big names who played in WSH. They should be given an opportunity to play in this league as well. Every player nurtures the desire to perform well in his chosen sport and if there are quality players who turned out in WSH, why should they be barred from playing in HIL?

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and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Movie review: Midnight's Children

A tryst with destiny 

Pruning a 600 page book into a 130 page script is a challenging task in itself. Salman Rushdie took upon himself the task of betrothing his darling to the big screen and the results are all “acts of love.”

Deepa Mehta guides the film delicately through a path which initially moves majestically and later descends into a whirlwind of colours, crackers, characters and composites, showing India and her chosen children in a light which retains Rushdie’s elegant prose.

Beginning on the idyllic Dal lake in Kashmir, Saleem Sinai narrates how India and the lives of those like him, who were born on the stroke of midnight, on the eve of India’s independence were entangled and challenged. At the end of the film Saleem’s voice (narrated by Salman Rushdie himself) concedes that even though the promise was grander than the reality, they both survived and whatever they did were all acts of love.

What really draws your attention though is the sheer breadth of everything happening on the screen. Hopping from pre-independent India to post-independence Pakistan to the newly formed Bangladesh and back to India, twisting and turning through marriages, labour pains, childbirths, disownments, adoptions, magic, gritty reality, snakes, baskets, spices, sarees, colonial buildings, slums, politics, power and love; all tied by Rushdie’s steady narration, you will come out of the theatre feeling refreshed and bittersweet.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2013.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles

2012 : DNA National B-School Survey 2012
Ranked 1st in International Exposure (ahead of all the IIMs)
Ranked 6th Overall
Zee Business Best B-School Survey 2012
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
IIPM IN FINANCIAL TIMES, UK. FEATURE OF THE WEEK
IIPM strong hold on Placement : 10000 Students Placed in last 5 year

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