tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post8466201107810046066..comments2023-10-30T17:07:19.996+05:30Comments on Don't trust the Indian Media!: Homoerotic TribalismKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06885651813993966354noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-17722268540094839692009-04-27T18:42:00.000+05:302009-04-27T18:42:00.000+05:30Arnab Goswami is an emotional manipulator and a r...Arnab Goswami is an emotional manipulator and a rabble-rouser of the highest order. But grant it to the man... it's only since he started doing it, his channel turned around and galloped ahead of others (from all the talk of him being on the verge of getting sacked only a couple of years ago). <br /><br />Just think rationally - what all "eventualities" do we expect a school to be prepared for, today. Asthma attacks, epilepsy, heat strokes and all other types of medical emergencies; then terrorist situations, short circuits, US-style shootouts etc. etc. If it's going to be so complex, shouldn't the Home Ministry create a comprehensive health & safety template, and the govt. enact a law to make it mandatory. <br /><br />But talking of this case, this family does seem to be baying for blood without either accepting their own responsibility, or recognising that regardless of what the school would've done in this case, it would have been crucified! They really need to learn a thing or two from Dr. Kachru.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11504796399541212341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-65090014469631849112009-04-27T17:47:00.000+05:302009-04-27T17:47:00.000+05:30http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/news/fullstory.a...http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/news/fullstory.asp?section_id=8&news_id=34584&tag=29813Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-10508593528421834692009-04-27T10:52:00.000+05:302009-04-27T10:52:00.000+05:30Also lets face it. if the school had sent her to t...Also lets face it. if the school had sent her to the hospital in anambulance and still the girl had died this same media would have called it negligence on the part of the school and made out a case that why didnt they wait for the parents car and driver. <br />for media it is heads i wil tail you lose.<br />And to hear that twat Arnab saying' I shudder to think what other schools have ...' is nauseating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-47629222954300583222009-04-25T10:45:00.000+05:302009-04-25T10:45:00.000+05:30Homosexuality as a form of ragging seems to be a r...Homosexuality as a form of ragging seems to be a recent phenomenon, probably also got to do with the easier acceptance of being gay? Going back 30 odd years, with 1st hand knowledge of sainik schools, NDA and Training Ships, all highly 100% male establishments and where ragging was and evolved art-form also called "tradition", I can state that:-<br /><br />a) The homos kept to themselves, and didn't try to plug the heteros.<br /><br />b) If a hetero senior came to know that a homo senior was trying to plug a hetero junior, then the hetero seniors got together and fixed the homo senior.<br /><br />c) Walking around nude was no big deal and not considered ragging. How did you get back to your dorm/cabin/locker if somebody else had flicked your towel, anyways? And the showers had no doors.<br /><br />d) Brutality existed - I still have the fag/bidi burn marks to prove it. But these were on my arms - not on my butt or pelvis.<br /><br />e) Other rituals which could be called erotic existed - circle jack was one. But hey, we were teenagers then.<br /><br />What happens now, from what I hear, is pure lack of proper guidance from teachers/instructors who were not just doing a job but were also people who earned their respect in every way. <br /><br />One way out could be to re-introduce the concept of dormitories again?GBOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-32452603384278324172009-04-24T19:12:00.000+05:302009-04-24T19:12:00.000+05:30I agree that Class XII students like to protest an...I agree that Class XII students like to protest anything at the drop of a hat I remember myself 12 years ago. We even went on strike!Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06885651813993966354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-29084552057436170932009-04-24T18:43:00.000+05:302009-04-24T18:43:00.000+05:30You are spot on in pointing a finger at Aakriti's ...You are spot on in pointing a finger at Aakriti's parents. <br /><br />To begin with, like most parents of students at Modern, they are well educated and with very adequate financial means.<br /><br />Then, Aakriti had a proven dependance on nebulisers. Any set of parents in such a situation should have been ready with a very well defined arrangements for medical emergencies for Aakriti, and then ensured that the school authorities be ready to carry out there role in this. In fact given their daughter's dependance on nebulisers, the parents should have gone to the extent of participating in at one 'mock-evacuation' of their child,each year. <br /><br />Third, the school has faced a great deal of protest from its students. Without any insensitivity to their sentiments, it is also true that any self-respecting CLass XII lot in any school have a mixed relationship with their school authorities, especially the principals, and there are always outstanding issues between the two sides. It will always be that way. So outburst of feelings from the students cannot be used by Aakriti's parents to further their own case. <br /><br />Of course, this is not to absolve Modern School Vasant Vihar of its own responsibility. Knowing the medical state of Aakriti it should have crystallised an 'emergency evacuation' plan of its own. Indeed these should be in plan for any eventuality such as a terrorist attack.<br /><br />But there is no case for any moral high ground for Aakriti's parents in any case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com