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I believe this is a correct decision by the govt. However I wont celebrate it. The cause is much more grave and there are thousands of such battles to be won before one can celebrate.

What do you mean, go soft? You know what. Its easy when something's happened in somebody else's home. You can the use words like dogs and monsters. But when things hit you close, at your home, only then you will understand.

But there was no justice. And as long as there's none, people will come out and support cases like this because to them it symbolizes a partial victory. He did what he had to do. When the state lets you down, somebody has to stand up and deliver a message, whatever's the cost.

You dont understand, do you? People have long memories. Especially those who have seen periodic cycles of violence. 84 will be brought up every time a case like Rajoana's comes up. As there was no justice in the original riots cases, something like Beant's killing, the cause of which can be...

Here yourself again. What you are saying is pure idealistic talk. In the real world it doesn't happen. In the real world, you first besiege the police to lodge an FIR against themselves for their excesses. See how preposterous that sounds? This when the media and the govt has already declared...

But the fact is that the state or its reps are never punished. Or if they ever are, there's a heavy imbalance. Like 1000s killed in riots and 9 cops penalized. Do you expect anybody to accept that as justice? And the judiciary is seen as an extension of the state isn't it? The state has to...

You have moved on. I haven't. My family hasn't. My friends haven't. You know why? There's no closure. And that's because there's no justice. And most NRI Sikhs are recent immigrants. They know what happened in the 80s. See its all about balance. The Sikhs heavily suffered in the riots, so...

Bang Galore, Beant's family has come out and said they do not hold any grudges against him. His own grandson (once involved in the alleged rape of a foreign national) recently won as an MLA and toes the party line. I am simply saying you cannot apply the same yardstick here. When you couldn't...

Perhaps because it didn't happen with your family member ! The system was mocked the day the state decided to take up extra judicial methods. Kashmir, NE, Naxals do deserve a political rather than a military solution.

Context is the key word here. You do not prosecute anybody for police excesses or the 84 riots, then somebody is bound to take the law into their own hands. Nows the chance to make up for it in some way by releasing him.

Well all things said and done, the Rajoana case shows that there are still festering wounds on the Sikh psychic, directly or indirectly caused by the events of the last 30 years. It again points to fault-lines in our democracy. Sometimes the state forgets its own principles and its tough to...

I understand where you are coming from, but please can we avoid exaggerations like these here?

Fair point. I don't really have an answer for that. As a Sikh and somebody who has seen the worse of both the militants and the state machinery in Punjab, I think Beant Singh had it coming.

Extracts from Rajoana's letter to his foster sister shed light on his thoughts and his reasons for not asking for mercy. I think his sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment. Since he has already spent 17 years behind bars, this would mean he would be out free very soon. This will...

A simple copy paste mistake. The junior level guy framing requirement must have blindly copied off the recruitment draft for men.

Not really. That's what you say the topic is. I think its about pre-independence India claiming its heritage back. So Pakistan is included. Plus you guys have the best documented cases of institutionalized cases of homosexuality. So what do the Pashtun areas think about this? Cant Pakistan...

Do you think we can expand this to the whole sub-continent? After all, some Pakistanis would have had far diverse gay experiences as evident in bachabazi in the Pashtun area?

And you are surprised? I saw the guy who started the thread and his summary on top of his post and knew this had flame-bait written all over it. Pity he's a member and stooping to such low levels. But he will receive it all back in kind.

I think this relates to the whole of sub-continent. And some areas like your KP practice it quite openly. What do they call it? Bachabaazi?

Who said we are aping the white man? Your post, along with the first one reeks of veiled sarcasm. You are fooling no one.