Stinking Creek

Believe it or not, there is a town called “Duck”. There is a town called “Toad Suck”. There is a town called “Why”. There is a town called “Santa Claus”. And there are many more. And there is a town called “Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein” and there is also “Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu” which happens to be the longest name for a town in the world. And then, there is a town called “Malice” (a famous song) which doesn’t exist on any map but it’s a tiny street township in Poland. But the biggest town of fraud, malice, sex maniacs, extortionists is in the world of our Fiberals – media, Bollywood, Lutyens, politics. And I call them the Stinking Creek. Creek – because they are the narrowest stretch of immoral humans.

Lately, dozens of sex perverts have been tumbling out of their cupboards. Those who claimed to be champions of women’s Rights, freedoms, choices and feminism are turning out to be the biggest exploiters of women. It all started with one woman talking about experiences with AIB (a comic group called AllIndiaBakchodi) which has now turned into an avalanche. These sex perverts peddled the most vulgar comedy it seems. I don’t have a problem with vulgar comedy, there are audiences for everything in the world. People choose what they want to watch. But seems it didn’t stop there, the founders of the AIB and some members started “sexploiting” innocent young girls and women. This is straight out of an American prostitution-mafia in a relatively softer manner. The AIB founders have since quit and issued a statement too:

 

This AIB is just the tip of the iceberg. I have not only been associated in some form in the past with the news media but I have observed the behaviour of the topmost managers at various times. From editors to senior journalists, there are many who are predators. If Bollywood has a “Casting Couch”, the media has one too. And don’t exclude the advertising industry from the media because the term “media” originally referred to the advertising industry and then came to encompass all other associated industries. Every major media house is filled with sex perverts. The latest one to bite the dust is Prashant Jha of Hindustan Times:

Prashant Jha is reported to have sexually harassed a reporter called Avantika Mehta. In September, Tanushree Dutta, a former Bollywood average actress came up with allegations against film personalities Vivek Agnihotri and Nana Patekar. Surprisingly, her last movie was in 2010 and the incidents she claimed seem to have happened around 2008 during the shooting of some movie. Apparently, she came all the way to India from the US, where she now stays, to make these disclosures. Naturally, everyone has to wonder why now. After such a long time, it would neither be easy to believe her nor would it be possible to prosecute anyone for it. She went on a media-yatra blabbering on all TV channels about how she was harassed. Her main target was Agnihotri who has recently achieved some prominence with his “Urban Naxal” stories. After much goading and ridicule, Dutta finally filed a FIR against Patekar. From his side, Patekar too seems to have sent some legal notice for defamation to her.

When the incidents that Tanushree claims to have happened, she did nothing. Why? Because she was in business and did not want to risk it. It is only about a decade later and out of business, that “honour” seems to have sprung a leak and popped up in her face. Many of the women in media (that includes news media, Bollywood and advertising industry) gladly suffer nonsense from some men when they are busy seeking money, glamour and popularity. When the shine goes off, it seems they are left with a guilt of what they should not have done. Take a look at this pervert Siddharth Bhatia. He is another of those vile beasts that lecture people on how and why male perverts should be treated as good as rapists. He tweeted his sermon on October 6 and one day later, it turns out he is one of those “Dark underbelly” beasts too:

When the Tarun Tejpal incident happened, most of his media friends were slyly defending him and trashing his victim. In the case of that Nobel prize winner, RK Pachauri, too the media did their best to cover up his crimes. It was a brave woman that could take on the might of RK Pachauri. These perverts and flesh-eaters abound in every media house and in every Lutyens outfit. And many in the media are bed-mates of politicians in return for a juicy story or gossip or leaks or favours for loans, houses, vehicles and so on.

Some years back, Sunetra Chaudhary of NDTV narrated an incident of sexual harassment with a politician. She even wrote a whole article in DNA about this “Pervy Politician”. It ended there. Neither she nor NDTV wanted to expose the politician and make him pay a price. But what exactly is the PRICE? The price is a troubled NDTV struggling to survive and wants to survive no matter what – even if your employee’s honour is treated like one of an “available escort”. You see, the lipstick, glamour and all the shine of a public life lures many a girl and woman into these dark alleys and they don’t mind being gently “sexploited” if it gets them more money and fame. Conscience seems to strike only when they encounter failure and don’t reach the dizzying heights they aimed for. In every party that the media houses throw, there is always someone who is gently fondling or molesting some woman in a shady corner or in a corridor. Getting drunk or getting high on drugs is not unusual at these parties.

This is the “Liberal life” as they claim – “My life, My rules” and what not. And then there are those daring women like Deepika Padukone who scream (when reported about excessively revealing cleavage) “I have breasts and a cleavage; do you have a problem”? Well it would be sort of unusual if a woman did not have breasts and a cleavage. When this kind of assertion comes from a celebrity, many young girls take it as sign that showing their breasts and cleavage in public is a sign of liberation and assertion of their freedoms.

What happens is, most of these youngsters don’t make it to the top like Deepika but they get exploited by sex perverts in the media or entertainment businesses. Deepika Padukone can get away even if she bares her breasts. The media would applaud it as great courage. But when newbies and young girls enamoured by such acts try it, they fall victim to the predators. Such men see a little bit of cleavage or revealing clothing as a signboard saying “I am available, if you have the guts”. So, they get macho and try to exploit such women.

Take the case of actor Sanjay Dutt. It seems his recent biopic revealed that he had bedded over 300 women. That would probably have been before he was sent to jail. Considering he was around age 45 or so at that time and from around age 17 to 45 is 28 years, that makes an average of over 10 new women he had sex with every single year. There is a psychological lure even with women to seek the poison from men who seemed daring and extremely liberal on this. If I sound too far-fetched, you should look up on how women sought attention from MK Gandhi.

 

For a long time, the sexual escapades and experiments of Gandhi were brushed under the carpet. Most of it remained hush-hush. Why? It has become a culture right from Gandhi down to the next guy in media – The one in supreme authority can have all the women he wants for all the experiments and adventures he wants. I see absolutely nothing spiritual about MKG’s experiments of “Brahmacharya”. Why is it that MKG can get away by using women as “Guinea pigs” for his sexual experiments? Why doesn’t the media or politicians call it like it is? For the same reason Tejpal claimed “Penance” as the solution to his sexcapade.

Take a good look at all the media men from Prashant Jha to Siddharth Bhatia to Tarun Tejpal or any other editor. If you dig deep enough, you may end up finding almost all of them are natural perverts. Shekhar Gupta, the wheeler-dealer of Lutyens and the current Head of that useless organisation called Editors Guild has absolutely nothing to say about all these incidents involving his peers. Nothing! Instead, he wants to ridicule Sabari Malai Ayappa temple with menstruating-women tweets. There is not one single major media house that does not have many sex perverts. There is not one major media house that does not exploit women. In many cases the women too have been willing accomplices or partners. The whole thing stinks. The reason being, journalism requires the least amount of talent and skill. And anyone with a little bit of flair and good looks is preferred and becomes a victim. And all of them stink to high hell.

And yes, there is indeed a town called Stinking Creek. It got its name owing to the naturally bad odour from the stream around it from sulphur springs. I find it quite appropriate for our media that stinks to high hell which has become nature to it.