Women's reservation - psychological benefits

Reservations may not be required in an ideal situation, just like hospitals might not be required in an ideal situation where everyone is healthy. But we have to take into account reality and the more hospitals the better would society be. Similarly, reservation is not a concept that has come out of vacuum. There is something like history and histories largely have predictable trajectories. However, it is man's experience that the trajectory of history, whether medical or social, can be changed. Our history says that certain sections of society were oppressed in certain ways. Reservation was suggested as a way of leveling the playing field. 60 years of experimentation in caste-based social reservations may not have produced ideal results and may have often produced counter-productive results. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that a psychological break-through was achieved and once-oppressed communities have now the confidence to stake their claim in the sunlight of equality. Facts and figures can almost prove or disprove anything. But the psychological benefits, often intangible but real nevertheless, are difficult to quantity. Women's reservation is an idea whose time has come or even come late in the Indian context. Let us have it. Let us support its passage in Parliament and Assemblies and see it as law. Only, we must also ensure that the law would provide for any irregularities and ambiguities to be corrected in the due course of the Bill’s existence in the statute books.

Swami Nithyananda redeems himself.

If the first video of Swami Nithyananda purportedly having sex was shocking, the second video now showing on the net is even more shocking - I think it is a masterly evidence, released by the Swamiji himself, of his claim that the first video was morphed. This is exactly what the second video proves. There is no sex at all here. Massaging yes, but no sex. And massaging only of Swamiji’s face, shoulders, back and chest. The only question now is whether the Swamiji should have allowed a woman to even touch him, that too in his bedroom. This apart, the woman doing the massaging came through as a trained, disciplined and efficient professional nurse. Maybe she is a disciple - but then she could well have been a sister or mother or daughter, certainly not a sexual paramour.

Who released the second video? Certainly not the folks who released the first video. Why would anyone who wanted the Swamiji’s name tarnished release a video which does not incriminate the Swamiji in any way? Therefore it is obvious that it was released under the instructions of the Swamiji himself. This also reveals that Swamiji had a CCTV installed in his bedroom as a security measure and it was from these genuine tapes that the scoundrel of a driver got professionals to morph and "expose" the Swamiji. Now I understand why the Swamiji is silent about sex in the video - he feels it is absolutely below his dignity to talk about surreptitious sex. With the release of the second tape, he has let all critiques and the public in general do the talking to clear his name.

Now what is left is for the Swamiji is to bring hefty criminal charges against all those who sought to vilify him. He owes it to the Hindu society - for the real purpose of the vilifiers was to vilify Hinduism itself.

Comment on blog "Mind of a mystic" by Dr. R. Murali Krishna

I felt the video was a fake one because if the intention was to produce a sting, the lights would not have been switched off before the supposed act. So the idea was to show as little of swamiji's body as possible so that the look-alike is not compromised. The other thing is there was no audio to go with the video, which is unlikely for a sting operation. Therefore the whole exercise was not through a hidden CCTV but with a directed camera and look-alikes. There are many other apparent flaws to conclude that the video is fake, which I have elaborated in my blog at "www.kaikulath.blogspot.com".

However, swamiji’s first video statement post the airing of the suspect CD did come as a disappointment. Why is swamiji unable to simply say that he has never had sex with anyone? Why is he asking for time to collect evidence against the falsity of the charges? Swamiji’s unambiguous statement that he has never had sex would leave the onus to prove otherwise to others. If sex is not alien to swamji’s life, then he should have in his teachings glorified it. In the absence of swamiji’s glorification of sex in his teachings, it was understood that swamiji neither had anything to do with sex nor wanted, at least his direct disciples, to have anything to do with it. Therefore the swamiji getting caught, if true, in the midst of sex is a sure call for him to abdicate his role as a traditional Hindu Sanyasi. For Swami Nithyananda at least, given the image he was cultivating, sexual and spiritual life cannot cohabitate.

And why was swamiji speaking from a camouflaged location? It seemed unbecoming of a fearless swamiji. I, as millions of others, am waiting for swamiji to speak again to the public at large from an open forum and clear all misgivings once and for all. What makes spiritual persons worship-worthy is that they live what they teach, unlike say a scholar, whose life need not necessarily be that transparent.

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Swami Nithyananda's statement

Swami Nithyananda has issued a statement subsequent to the airing of the scandalous CD. My comment:

The swami's statement is a disappointment, coming as it does after so many days. What evidence is he waiting for to establish the falsity of the charges against him? And why is he speaking from an undisclosed location, even camouflaging his background in the video statement - almost like what the terrorists do? All he has to do is to simply say that he has not had sex with anyone. If he is not able to state this directly and unambiguously, he will always be suspected of trying to escape the charges on technical grounds. I hope the detailed explanation he has promised will salvage his image.

Swami Nithyananda Paramahamsa and the fake sex video

The video showing Swami in compromising acts is not genuine because:

1. At one point the Swamiji (look alike) sports moustache.

2. From some angles the look-alike does not look like Swami.

3. If it was a sting operation to expose the Swami, and the actress was part of the plot, why was the light switched off at the crucial moment? The whole purpose of the sting operation would have been to expose the Swamiji in the act of sexual intercourse. Why was this act not videographed? Because videographing the sexual act would have exposed Swami’s full body and it would have become clear that it was not the Swami? It seems that the plan was to show as little of the Swami’s body as possible so that the look-alike was not exposed.

4. If the sting operation was carried out without the knowledge of the actress, the movement of the actress sliding up the Swamiji to get water and swami's reaction looks contrived. This indicates that both the Swami and the actress roles were played by look-alikes.

5. Two different girls were involved on two different days, which appears to have been previous night and following morning. A fixed CCTV video would have shown the two girls simultaneously. This proves the videography was carried out with look-alikes who were suitably directed – not by a fixed CCTV from a hidden place.

6. It appears that the Swami got up the second day in the morning, because his yawn is a give away. Then why was the light switched off after some point even in the morning? This also proves that the characters involved are all look-alikes.

7. Why is the Swami looking so intently at the TV even when the actress was massaging his legs and more? Apparently he was waiting for his cue from the director to begin playing the part. If it was the Swami, the reaction to the actress massaging him would have looked natural.

8. If technology to produce a clear video was used, why was the conversation not caught? Because the look-alikes could not imitate the true voices?