Hang Memon must

July 25, 2015 23:56

In a recent op-ed Shobhaa De has commented upon how unlike Kasab, Memon a direct product of the very city he helped blow to smithereens.

Here's an exerpt:

All those of us who live in this deliriously amazing metropolis called Mumbai, owe it a big one.

Today some citizens are ignoring that huge debt, by exonerating a man who played a pretty big role in destroying that very city -- not just key areas of Bombay/Mumbai -- but the soul of what used to be a truly vibrant, open and generous slice of India where everybody miraculously managed to grab a piece of the sky that covered it. March 12, 1993, was that ghoulish day when our beloved Mumbai was blown apart by a series of bomb blasts that claimed 257 innocent lives, and left 713 injured.

Sadly, 22 years ago, on that terrible day, Mumbai changed forever. Mumbai never did recover. Mumbai may never recover.

When a convict is told he is to hang on such-and-such day and time, when his family members, along with the doomed man, begin the ghastly countdown, when detailed reports giving minute details, start doing the rounds across media platforms, it is inevitable that a surge of public sympathy follows. After all, we are human. We connect to grief no matter to whom that grief belongs. Or even why. In this defining case, we also know complete justice has been done, even if that has taken the courts 22 years and an incredible amount of work to get to this final point of closure.

Despite all that, the first instinctive response is to place oneself in the shoes of the man who faces the gallows -- it is a scary, eerie experience. Next, you think of what his wife and daughter are going through -- equally troubling. And then you start to feel awful about yourself! Strange, isnt it? Temporarily, you forget the enormity of the crime committed against a city, a nation, humanity itself. And you personalise the situation.

For more read HERE.

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