By: Yumnam Chaoba Singh
Recently a booklet under the name and style “Security Tips For North-East Students/visitors in Delhi” penned by Robin Hibu, IPS, Deputy Commissioner, West Delhi police was publicized with vitriolic impression therein whamming and prodding to the students of North-East who are/were undergoing training or studies in various vocational and general trades/streams inclusive of casual/habitual commuters at Delhi in regard to the use of dress bracketting revealing dress, the manner of having dished-up foods and preparation and cooking of regimen and cuisine items which we may term it “food habits”.
In this context, it is opined that revealing dress is no more a fresh ones as we have been evidenced since the last many decades. No doubt, revealing dress, beauty contest, body fitness fever became acceptable to the women of Indian soil since 1980s approximately. This kind of changing trend in dressing are/were seen on the screen, mega cities dotted in the urbanized areas as a fashion influenced by the western civilization. In addition to school/college uniforms, most of the students from the length and breadth of the country who camp at Delhi appears to have used/attired varieties of clothes of which mention may be made of traditional dress, chic-design, glitz, grunge, trendy casuals (short-wears, jean jackets, trousers) etc. are being used according to time and place and comfortability of the clothes. Then, what kind of dress apart from these garments, did the IPS officer like to impose on the students of NE? Regarding eatables, food can be divided into three categories - vegetarian, flesh and mixed. Vegetarian diet are besides grains, pulses, edible roots, tubers and leaves, includes fruits, both fresh and dry whereas flesh foods generally include fowl and fish and mixed foods are mixture of these three categories according to combinatory methods (edibility). Then what sort of habits in the consumption of foods, did the IPS officer want to prescribe or adopt for the NE students other than these eatables? There might be hundred wrongs regarding consumption of wine or intoxicants in the bar or discotheque as we have seen from the live-stories of the periodicals - “Crime and Detectives”. and other booklets edited from time to time. Did the IPS officer not keep a blind eye on the feral dress, foods, alcoholic drinks of other students to whom he pampered with molly-coddle while walloping on the misdemeanour of a student of NE with a sense of rancour and alienation?
Even though the booklet was not seen apparently and gone through, I could intuitively have a conjecture the nub of the publication from the columns of State/National Dailies and also from the past experiences as the daylight can be seen through the very small holes. As conceived his writings inordinately profligates and hypnotizes, the social fabrics, congeniality, doughtiness and innocency of the north-easterners, especially to the students community and the commonplace people in general. His chopping charlatanism and inured assortment and repulsion in clothings of NE students in cynical manner arouses squeamishness by and large, one by one, are drawn into the vortex that badly disparaged human dignity and honour which is against the established norms of human epistemology, epochal historicity and crystalized culture of NE region. Yes, “To err is human; to forgive is divine”. We are all liable to err but north-easterners also know that we are obliged to revise our judgment. The IPS officer being an illusional body not a divine ones, he cannot forgive someone especially NE, when he/she was found on the wrong-footing knowingly or unknowingly. It means that no one can trangress from the ambit of the proverb when some one is entrapped in the wrong. The IPS officer has the right to punish and reprimand the students as per laws of the land but publication of the booklet is very injurious to the glaring image of NE region. If he could displace the word “forgive” in place of “err” vice-versa, he is above all unquestionably. In the epic” Mahabharata even Lord Krishna used cryptic words to Kunti for which he was cursed. However, I am not pleading that one will have to commit mistakes but I flatly feel pity the racial antagonistic attitude of the IPS officer to NE.
The IPS officer’s discriminatory remarks is nothing but erupting racial disjuncture because he lacks the quality of a spirited camaraderie. He might step into toehold of trouble-shooter rather than aspersions on NE.
Again, it appears that the IPS officer to have forgotten the anthological rendition of famous writter, William Hazlitt wherein a father of a well-to-do family admonished to his pampered son “Never despise anyone or anything that he cannot help”. Instead of writing comprehensive and authoritative books for the uncoming generations, the IPS officer depicts caricatural booklet (lump-sum advice) which carries nihility in a developing country like India and also an insult to the whole nation implicitly. If he was a man of high spirit with filial love and he had no partiality, he had to use therapeutic massage to the NE students with delicate bandying while unpublished. Hazlitt continued that one should not despise anyone at all, for contempt implies a triumph over and pleasure in the ill of another. It means that he is glad and congratulates himself on the failings and misfortunes of his fellow-beings. The sense of inferiority in others without this indirect appeal to our self-love is a painful feeling and not an exulting one. William Hazlitt only mean that indiscriminate, unqualified satire can do little good and those who indulge in the most revolting speculations on human nature, do not always set the fairest examples or strive to prevent its lower degradation. The old maxim so goes “Desire to please and you will infallibly please”. Hazlitt again said his son “In your father’s house you might do as you pleased but you will find competitors at every turn. You are not a King’s son to destroy or dictate to millions; you can only expect to share their fate or settle your differences amicably with them”.
Once again, the very IPS officer might be one of the Delhiites or from elsewhere but with ulterior motives, he published the booklet with his new fangled notion in the hope that the pristine of Delhi might be corrugated only by the revealing dress, food habits and alcoholic misdemeanor of NE Students while brushing the faults of other students under the carpet through favoritism and nepotism which is not a sign of civility taking into consideration of the provocative booklet. North-easterners Know Delhi is an absorbing place of each and every Indians but due to financial crease, a few test its flavour in harmony to one’s needs and purposes. Generally a capital is meant for all communities as it is not under the control of a particular race or tribe. Therefore, Delhi, the capital of India, is the locket and epitome spruced up from the sweat and blood of every citizens of the nation. No one, except anti-social elements, miscreants, anti-nationals can desecrate the glaring image and sanctity of Delhi. Only fault finding on the dress, food habits of NE Students without checking all social evils resulted from the dwellers (immoralists) at Delhi and arrangement of security Tips. for NE Students is a farcial love. Every race, tribe, castes has its own cultural heritage, cultural identity and there also exists cultural commonalities among each other. One knows cultural opulence of NE in arts, culture, music, literature, games and sports comparatively with its counter-parts. There will be none who does not like to copy or imitate the foppish and gaudy dress and merriment of an elegant and civilized society. As culture is what we are, one race has to honour the culture of another race without any discrimination to attain a common culture or unidirectional goal i.e, the domain of civilization. When the citizens of whole country are really cultured, the racial discrimination may disappear from our mind.
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Source: www.kanglaonline.com
Recently a booklet under the name and style “Security Tips For North-East Students/visitors in Delhi” penned by Robin Hibu, IPS, Deputy Commissioner, West Delhi police was publicized with vitriolic impression therein whamming and prodding to the students of North-East who are/were undergoing training or studies in various vocational and general trades/streams inclusive of casual/habitual commuters at Delhi in regard to the use of dress bracketting revealing dress, the manner of having dished-up foods and preparation and cooking of regimen and cuisine items which we may term it “food habits”.
In this context, it is opined that revealing dress is no more a fresh ones as we have been evidenced since the last many decades. No doubt, revealing dress, beauty contest, body fitness fever became acceptable to the women of Indian soil since 1980s approximately. This kind of changing trend in dressing are/were seen on the screen, mega cities dotted in the urbanized areas as a fashion influenced by the western civilization. In addition to school/college uniforms, most of the students from the length and breadth of the country who camp at Delhi appears to have used/attired varieties of clothes of which mention may be made of traditional dress, chic-design, glitz, grunge, trendy casuals (short-wears, jean jackets, trousers) etc. are being used according to time and place and comfortability of the clothes. Then, what kind of dress apart from these garments, did the IPS officer like to impose on the students of NE? Regarding eatables, food can be divided into three categories - vegetarian, flesh and mixed. Vegetarian diet are besides grains, pulses, edible roots, tubers and leaves, includes fruits, both fresh and dry whereas flesh foods generally include fowl and fish and mixed foods are mixture of these three categories according to combinatory methods (edibility). Then what sort of habits in the consumption of foods, did the IPS officer want to prescribe or adopt for the NE students other than these eatables? There might be hundred wrongs regarding consumption of wine or intoxicants in the bar or discotheque as we have seen from the live-stories of the periodicals - “Crime and Detectives”. and other booklets edited from time to time. Did the IPS officer not keep a blind eye on the feral dress, foods, alcoholic drinks of other students to whom he pampered with molly-coddle while walloping on the misdemeanour of a student of NE with a sense of rancour and alienation?
Even though the booklet was not seen apparently and gone through, I could intuitively have a conjecture the nub of the publication from the columns of State/National Dailies and also from the past experiences as the daylight can be seen through the very small holes. As conceived his writings inordinately profligates and hypnotizes, the social fabrics, congeniality, doughtiness and innocency of the north-easterners, especially to the students community and the commonplace people in general. His chopping charlatanism and inured assortment and repulsion in clothings of NE students in cynical manner arouses squeamishness by and large, one by one, are drawn into the vortex that badly disparaged human dignity and honour which is against the established norms of human epistemology, epochal historicity and crystalized culture of NE region. Yes, “To err is human; to forgive is divine”. We are all liable to err but north-easterners also know that we are obliged to revise our judgment. The IPS officer being an illusional body not a divine ones, he cannot forgive someone especially NE, when he/she was found on the wrong-footing knowingly or unknowingly. It means that no one can trangress from the ambit of the proverb when some one is entrapped in the wrong. The IPS officer has the right to punish and reprimand the students as per laws of the land but publication of the booklet is very injurious to the glaring image of NE region. If he could displace the word “forgive” in place of “err” vice-versa, he is above all unquestionably. In the epic” Mahabharata even Lord Krishna used cryptic words to Kunti for which he was cursed. However, I am not pleading that one will have to commit mistakes but I flatly feel pity the racial antagonistic attitude of the IPS officer to NE.
The IPS officer’s discriminatory remarks is nothing but erupting racial disjuncture because he lacks the quality of a spirited camaraderie. He might step into toehold of trouble-shooter rather than aspersions on NE.
Again, it appears that the IPS officer to have forgotten the anthological rendition of famous writter, William Hazlitt wherein a father of a well-to-do family admonished to his pampered son “Never despise anyone or anything that he cannot help”. Instead of writing comprehensive and authoritative books for the uncoming generations, the IPS officer depicts caricatural booklet (lump-sum advice) which carries nihility in a developing country like India and also an insult to the whole nation implicitly. If he was a man of high spirit with filial love and he had no partiality, he had to use therapeutic massage to the NE students with delicate bandying while unpublished. Hazlitt continued that one should not despise anyone at all, for contempt implies a triumph over and pleasure in the ill of another. It means that he is glad and congratulates himself on the failings and misfortunes of his fellow-beings. The sense of inferiority in others without this indirect appeal to our self-love is a painful feeling and not an exulting one. William Hazlitt only mean that indiscriminate, unqualified satire can do little good and those who indulge in the most revolting speculations on human nature, do not always set the fairest examples or strive to prevent its lower degradation. The old maxim so goes “Desire to please and you will infallibly please”. Hazlitt again said his son “In your father’s house you might do as you pleased but you will find competitors at every turn. You are not a King’s son to destroy or dictate to millions; you can only expect to share their fate or settle your differences amicably with them”.
Once again, the very IPS officer might be one of the Delhiites or from elsewhere but with ulterior motives, he published the booklet with his new fangled notion in the hope that the pristine of Delhi might be corrugated only by the revealing dress, food habits and alcoholic misdemeanor of NE Students while brushing the faults of other students under the carpet through favoritism and nepotism which is not a sign of civility taking into consideration of the provocative booklet. North-easterners Know Delhi is an absorbing place of each and every Indians but due to financial crease, a few test its flavour in harmony to one’s needs and purposes. Generally a capital is meant for all communities as it is not under the control of a particular race or tribe. Therefore, Delhi, the capital of India, is the locket and epitome spruced up from the sweat and blood of every citizens of the nation. No one, except anti-social elements, miscreants, anti-nationals can desecrate the glaring image and sanctity of Delhi. Only fault finding on the dress, food habits of NE Students without checking all social evils resulted from the dwellers (immoralists) at Delhi and arrangement of security Tips. for NE Students is a farcial love. Every race, tribe, castes has its own cultural heritage, cultural identity and there also exists cultural commonalities among each other. One knows cultural opulence of NE in arts, culture, music, literature, games and sports comparatively with its counter-parts. There will be none who does not like to copy or imitate the foppish and gaudy dress and merriment of an elegant and civilized society. As culture is what we are, one race has to honour the culture of another race without any discrimination to attain a common culture or unidirectional goal i.e, the domain of civilization. When the citizens of whole country are really cultured, the racial discrimination may disappear from our mind.
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Source: www.kanglaonline.com
