Reading thro' the letters to editor in today's newspapers regarding the
passing of the death sentence on Ajmal Kasab, I tend to agree with Anand
Madgavkar [Herald/Goan Observer] that such things are not celebrated but
solemnly accepted as justice done towards the crime committed. There is
nothing to celebrate about. In fact it is a sad day that things like the
crime that Kasab committed and the 'hang unto death' judgment passed has
come to pass in this modern, civilized society. But even sterner judgments
are required in order to curb the fanatic understanding that if one gives
his/her own life in taking away hundreds of other's for a cause totally
absurd and unknown, one is likely to be rewarded in many ways in heaven by
the Almighty God.
My brother has come down to Goa today from Mumbai for a couple of days to
see our mother who is bed-ridden at 88. And we got to talking about the main
news in the papers today about Ajmal Kasab getting the hanging rap. And what
surprised me was my brother saying that he is totally not satisfied with the
hanging unto death sentence. "It is too mild and a very easy way out for
Kasab", he said.
I disagreed with him asking him if he would prefer having Kasab lined up
against the dead wall and pumped with a hundred bullets, like they did it
to the President of Rumania Nikolae Causescu through a firing squad.
"No", he said. "That too is a sort of easy way out". "If I were Justice M
L Tahaliyani, I would have handed out a sentence that was the most cruel -
HANGED - DRAWN AND QUARTERED."
In all these years of reading novels and books, I am no novice to that
phrase. But I have never had the opportunity to find out what it actually
meant. So I said to my brother. "Isn't it the same thing" l asked my
brother.
"I had expected that you would know" he said. "It means, as the body is
plunged and comes to the end of the rope, there is the executioner waiting
with a knife who slits the chest open in one motion even as the body is in
spasm, plucks out the beating heart with his bare hands, places it on the
chopping block and cuts it into 4 quarters in a swift 'dak ..dak' motion".
Come to think of it, that all these years I had known the phrase but didn't
know what it meant.
"Sure" I said. "I can't imagine anything more cruel than this".
Does not Kasab deserve it??? Perhaps the Supreme Court will know better.
And,
Perhaps our dear Remo must abandon the Arabian Sea mass drowning for our
GOA politicians and solicit for a 'Kalejah fry' rave party instead.
:-))
Cheers
floriano
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