Dr. Jagdish Pathak@Odette: Honour Killings In India: Is It Not A Plain Murder...

http://jagdishpathak.blogspot.com/2010/07/honour-killings-in-india-is-it-not.html?spref=bl: "Every alternate day, I am shocked to read such headlined item in the Indian newspapers of repute that another 'honour killing' took place at..."

Honour Killings In India: Is It Not A Plain Murder ?

Every alternate day, I am shocked to read such headlined item in the Indian newspapers of repute that another 'honour killing' took place at such and such town. Indian media has grown over the years but using such phrases like 'honour killing' do not fit the incidents reported by them. There is no such thing called 'honour killing' and one should not start thinking that such killings are different from plain murders. These are just murders and nothing else. Media in its zeal to coin a new term has given us a false understanding on these kind of murders by family people.

Indians only knew that our soldiers on the border kill enemy combatants for keeping honour of motherland and for which Indian panel code section 302 is not applicable. We knew that it is the killing for honour of our country. Surely, we never knew in our wildest dreams that a brother, father, uncle, mother and other close blood relations would also kill very own blood in the name of keeping false honour. We also did not know that media which has better sense of looking through the lines would start calling these plain murders as 'honour killings'.

Indian society though claims to have undergone change is infact failing to accept the truth that education helps in removing old dogmas, biases and prejudices amongst its members. It is different that a politician whose survival is based upon maintaining such irrationalities would prefer status quo. Indian legal system has truely accepted such killings as plain murders but unfortunately, our political leaders are still unchanged, intentionally or unintentionally. My hats off to all those legal and judicial members of Indian establishment who have refused to succumb to such petty people pressure but you never know!!



My request to the Indian media people is to call these killings as pure murders without using such coinages like 'honour killing' etc.



I hope someone is listening to me.

Mining Company Ownership Rights to The Tribals of India

The GoM of Indian government are at last thinking about providing economic rights to the agitating tribals of central India. My congratulations to all those involved in decisionmaking. Tribals can be empowered in one very interesting and successful manner which has been practical in Goa since Portugese days. It is called communidades. The entire land of individual communidades in Goa is distributed amongst the gaokars. This right passes in proportion to the next generation and the income generated by the communidad is distributed amongst the gaokars proportionately. These rights were non-transferable to anyone non-gaokar (now, ofcourse builder lobby has found a way to buy these rights.).



Govt of India can provide the proportion of equity decided in the form of communidades to entire population of tribals in concerned states. These communidades may be geographically earmarked so that tribals living in that area become member of that communidade and get benefits from the rights. Every mining company will have to distribute profits to these communidades and these communidades will in turn issue part of proceeds in cash to its members and rest would be used for various social developmental works to be managed by these communidades and its membership.



I am sure such mode of help would go a long way in helping agitating tribals and solve many of theirs problems. Here rights of communidades are not saleable by tribals to any non-tribal or anyone. These rights are non identifiable in the property or assets of the communidades.

The proposed bill may be crafted in such a way that ultimately these tribals only get benefits and no one else.