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Wondering what all the hype over the Higgs boson is about? Look no further. Massive begins in 1966 from the perspective of Peter Higgs, the man who gave his name to the theoretical particle that reputedly gives all others their mass, as he drives to the conference where he will present his breakthrough idea.
But before finishing that story, Sample swings further back in time to explore our earliest conceptions of mass. Several more narrative circles take readers through the history of the theoretical framework, built over the last century, that describes the world of particles. By the time the story catches up with Higgs again, Sample has taken us on a whirlwind tour of the discoveries that first revealed the subatomic world.
This is far from a strictly scientific story. A hundred anecdotes bring the towering figures of particle physics and their key discoveries to life, exploring the thoroughly human side of the endeavour to understand nature at its most fundamental level.
The book also takes us on the trail of ever larger and more expensive particle smashers, from table-top experiments on up to the 27-kilometre tunnel excavated for the Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP), which now houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
But all the arcs return to the Higgs boson, the "last piece" in the solution to a key physics puzzle and a notoriously difficult one to spot. Sample describes physicists' uncertainties over whether particle signals are real and elucidates the careful distinction between finding a particle and merely finding evidence for its existence.
The story displays all the differences of opinion amongst physicists, including the high-profile ones, such as Stephen Hawking's $100 bet that the Higgs boson won't be found at all. Sample also acknowledges the vagaries of scientific fame, interviewing Peter Higgs's colleagues who had proposed a mass-giving field - some of them having published their work before Higgs.
In the sad tale of the doomed Superconducting Supercollider, Sample highlights the vulnerability of particle physics to public support. The ambitious design for the particle accelerator that would have been nearly three times as powerful as the LHC is designed to be, suffered a withdrawal of political support and funding, and its tunnels now lie abandoned under the Texan desert. Exploring another angle of public interest in these machines, Sample devotes a chapter to the end-of-the-world fears and scare-mongering that inevitably seem to come with increasingly energetic particle colliders.
Like any good book, the excitement in Massive builds, culminating with the frenzied Higgs hunt at the end of LEP's run and more recently at the Tevatron at Fermilab in the US - both racing against time to bag the revered particle. But of course this is a story with a disappointing end. The Higgs boson is still at large, and unless something unexpected turns up at the Tevatron over the next year and a half, we'll have to wait on the LHC to prove the famously reclusive Peter Higgs right or wrong.
Book Information
Massive: The hunt for the God particle
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Chrysler Opens Dealer Orders for Natural Gas Ram Pickup
Chrysler Group LLC, the automaker controlled by Fiat SpA (F), is making its natural gas-powered Ram pickup available for sale to retail buyers, according to the head of the company's dealership network.
Chrysler began allowing all dealers to order the Ram 2500 Heavy Duty CNG pickup in September, Peter Grady, vice president of network development and fleet, said in an interview. Chrysler, which initially made the truck available only to fleet buyers, joins Honda Motor Co. (7267) as the only automakers selling compressed natural gas vehicles to U.S. retail consumers.
"The dealers have been asking for it, they've been clamoring, particularly in the natural gas states and in some of these places where you're starting to get infrastructure," Grady said in an interview at his office in Auburn Hills, Michigan, where Chrysler is based. States where the fuel and infrastructure are most available include California, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania, he said.
Sergio Marchionne, chief executive officer of Chrysler and Turin, Italy-based Fiat, has argued that natural gas engines are cheaper and more viable than plug-in hybrid and electric cars. The battery-electric Fiat 500, scheduled to start production later this year, will generate losses of about $14,000 per unit sold, Marchionne said last week in London.
"The electric technology just isn't advanced, it's not there, and there's so much innovation that's required to make it viable," Grady said. "We've got to be there in some fashion, whether it's hybrids or whatever, but right now, compressed natural gas is here."
Fiat's Standing
Fiat is the market leader for compressed natural gas vehicles in Europe, with about 90 percent market share in Italy. Sales of vehicles fueled by natural gas and propane surged 90 percent to 114,226 vehicles through August, accounting for 11.6 percent of the market. That's up from a 4.9 percent share a year earlier.
Under U.S. fuel-economy standards released Aug. 28, natural gas-powered vehicles were made eligible for credits aimed at reducing emissions. Chrysler testified to the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee in July and advocated for parity between natural gas-powered cars and trucks and other alternative-fuel vehicles.
Chrysler's Ram 2500 Heavy Duty CNG pickup features both compressed gas storage tanks and a conventional gasoline fuel tank, the company said in a March 6 statement. The truck, which starts at $47,500 including a $995 destination charge, is designed to go 255 miles (410 kilometers) on compressed natural gas before switching to the 8-gallon (30-liter) reserve tank, extending the range to 367 miles.
Industry Buyers
"Our strategy on our investment in this product was really predicated on the natural gas industry," Grady said. "We came up with the truck because that's the one that they said they would like to do. They've embraced the truck."
Chrysler now is seeing interest beyond buyers in the natural gas industry, he said. Additional potential fleet and commercial buyers include waste and transit companies as well as airport shuttles.
The automaker also is getting demand from states looking to add the pickup to their fleets. Chrysler said in an Oct. 5 statement that 13 of its Ram truck dealers reached contracts with 19 states to supply their fleets with the truck.
Honda is the only automaker selling cars with compressed natural gas engines to retail customers in the U.S., with its $26,305 Civic Natural Gas sedan. The Tokyo-based automaker last week said it would offer $3,000 debit cards for customers to use toward purchasing the fuel in a promotion with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE), the largest owner of U.S. natural gas stations.
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1/29/2007 1:14am, #51Originally Posted by Iscariot
1/29/2007 1:16am, #52Originally Posted by MEGA JESUS-SAN
Antoninus, look.
Across the river.
There is something you must see.
There, boy, is Rome!
The might, the majesty...
the terror of Rome.
There is the power that bestrides the known world like a colossus.
No man can withstand Rome.
No nation can withstand her.
How much less...
a boy!
There's only one way to deal with Rome, Antoninus.
You must serve her.
You must abase yourself before her.
You must grovel at her feet.
You must...
Love her.
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
Joey . . . have you ever been in a, a Turkish prison?
Fear the weasels
Fear the gay pirate
Me caught Spinning at work
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1/29/2007 2:26am, #53
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Wow! Now all of sudden MJS is taking archery, Ballet and TKD at the same time? How much more t3h gh3y can one get? Are you sure you are not a 16 y/o giggling Wapanese school girl, MJS?
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It might be possible...
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SAN ANTONIO – Beginning Monday, a section of Ira Lee Road on the city's northeast side will be closed for construction for about a year.
The construction is part of a $3.5 million dollar Bexar County flood control project to reduce flooding at the Salado Creek Crossing.
The county will close the section between Loop 410 and Laurens Lane to install a bridge.
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Supporting China's growth means straight talk with another powerful friend, writes Hugh White.
WE OFTEN speak of our alliance with the US as based on shared values, and indeed it is. But there are important differences in what the two countries think of values, and especially the link between values and power.
Those differences are central to our thinking about the future of Asia.
John Howard, visiting Washington last month, starkly displayed these differences when he and President George Bush spoke on the touchstone issue of China. Standing next to Howard, Bush described US relations with Beijing as "complex" and "complicated". "We've got issues when it comes to values," he said, and asked Howard to "work together to reinforce the need for China to accept certain values as universal".
Howard turned him down, flat. He told Bush: "We have a good relationship with China. It's not just based on economic opportunity. We are unashamed in developing our relations with China. I'll do everything I can in the interests of Australia to ensure it develops further." The day before he said his approach was "to build on the things that we have in common, and not become obsessed with the things that make us different".
That harsh word "obsessed" points to the depth of the differences. For Howard, values and power can be treated separately. He acknowledges that China and Australia have different values, but does not agree with Bush that China's values undermine its claims to regional power. He accepts those claims as legitimate. Indeed, he thinks that China's ascent to some kind of economic and political leadership in Asia is in Australia's interest. That is why he is going to the East Asian Summit.
For Bush, and for most Americans, the opposite is true. They are keen to benefit from China's growing economy. But they do not accept China's claim for a share of power in Asia, because they believe only countries that share America's values can legitimately exercise such power. Power and values are so deeply intertwined in American thinking they cannot be separated. "Obsessed" might not be too strong a word.
Now that the differences are clear, the question is whether the two allies are going to agree tacitly to differ, or are going to do something about it. The temptation is strong to just let things lie because, as Howard says, a US-China conflict is not inevitable. But hoping for the best is not good policy. If we want to maximise our chances that 20 years from now we
can enjoy strong relations with both the US and China, there are three key questions which Australia needs
to consider.
First, we need to decide just how far we are willing to go in accepting Chinese leadership in Asia. Clearly we are happy to see China's influence grow. But presumably we would not want China to become a dominant regional hegemonic power. Where in between does the limit lie?
Second, we need to decide what role we want the US to play in the new balance of power in Asia. Clearly we want the US to stay engaged, to balance China and prevent it dominating the region. But the implication of Canberra's support for Chinese regional leadership is that the US will need to concede some power and influence to China, because competition for strategic influence is a zero-sum game. So how much power and influence do we want the US to concede to China? What kind of residual role do we want the US to play? And what are the chances of it being happy to accept that role?
Third, how do other regional powers fit in? In particular, what role does Japan have in Asia's new power structure? Sixty years after the end of the Pacific war, it is clear that Japan cannot and should not be denied forever a normal role in the strategic affairs of Asia, especially if China's power grows. If the US role is reduced, are we happy to see Japan's role increased?
Of course, all these questions interconnect. Australia, by its support for China's growing regional influence, is promoting a profound transformation in the strategic architecture of Asia, with immense implications for
Australia's security, including our alliance with the US. Australia needs to consider what the outcomes of that process might be, and which of those outcomes would be best for us.
For what it's worth, my hunch is that Australia's interests would be best served if the US allowed China a somewhat bigger regional role, in return for China allowing Japan a larger say in regional affairs. That would make a very different region from the one we live in now, with many new challenges for Australia. We seem a long way from it now, but things are moving very quickly. We need to get our act together.
The first essential step is to start a very frank discussion with Washington, in which the big questions of power and values are put squarely on the table.
Hugh White is a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute and professor of strategic studies at Australian National University.
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hi every one
I downloaded Awstate from your site and when I'm tryin to open it from my computer by using http browser (http://my localhst ip/report) it tells me :
You don't have permission to access /report/ on this server.
any help please
Been using awstats for a while, I think it's the best web statistic currently available for free!
Re: security problems
> I'd been using awstats for a while, and
> it seemed nice enough. However, there
> seems to be a pretty serious security
> hole:
> http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/0f5a2b4d-694b-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html
> http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_changelog.txt
> The changelog and the FreeBSD port seem
> to indicate that the bug is in 6.2, and
> is fixed in 6.3. However, freshmeat,
> sourceforge, and the BSD ports system
> (after a fresh cvsup) don't seem to show
> any signs that 6.3 actually exists.
> Some clarification from the developer
> would be very helpful. I'm looking for a
> different program now.
True, the first security hole in AWStats life was found in december but was fixed two days after.
You can download stable 6.3 from AWStats web site to fix it.
security problems
I'd been using awstats for a while, and it seemed nice enough. However, there seems to be a pretty serious security hole:
The changelog and the FreeBSD port seem to indicate that the bug is in 6.2, and is fixed in 6.3. However, freshmeat, sourceforge, and the BSD ports system (after a fresh cvsup) don't seem to show any signs that 6.3 actually exists.
Some clarification from the developer would be very helpful. I'm looking for a different program now.
Re: Awstats is a mess
> I downloaded Awstats this afternoon and
> some hours later all I can tell is:
> Never touch it!
> This program is a real mess, maybe the
> programmer should spend some time in
> re-working on it.
> It deletes logfiles if ran as root,
> can't read those files and so on. Here's
> what I experienced:
> 1) It didn't give me any hits. =
> Debugged and deleted lines looking for
> wrong code which was obviously correct.
> 2) it stopped telling me my log-format
> was wrong (apache latest version btw.) =
> Verified log-format, 100% correct.
> The site has an FAQ-Section, under
> construction. This program really looks
> pretty good and neat, why hasn't it been
> debugged before released? I'll switch to
> anther program now, there are thousands
> of others and this one has gone into my
> 'not-for-use'-trashcan :(
you must be non-techie...
or newbie or just blind
and well... stupid (sorry, just conclusion),
awstats is very good program, with nice documentation
works flawless and is not very hard to configure
did you read tfm?
Re: Great Program
This program looks great, but the website doesn't seem to give instructions on installation for us non-techies. There seems to be a few options to download. What do I download, and where to install?
I own my website, but not the server it is on. It is on a Unix server with, I believe Apache software. I have logs to read and CGI access. Do I install it in the CGI folder?
Thanks for patience and assistance.
Re: Great Program
> Great program, but the FreshMeat entry is dated.
So why don't you update it? :)
Great Program
Great program, but the FreshMeat entry is dated. Check their site for 6.3
I set up the latest release, 6.0 (build 1.699) because I love to live on the edge. For 4 virtual hosts, I had to do a little tweaking of the Apache config (the configure.pl only knows how to put the additional lines outside the virtualhosts containers), but it was worth it; now each site knows its own config -- E.G. http://family.xxx.yyy.net/awstats/awstats.pl (without anything extra) knows to use the correct config file, as do my other virtual sites. Actually, It may know the proper way without the extra entries in the httpd.conf, I'll have to try. Still, the whole process took under an hour, and that involved un-gzipping old log files to run in on the initial runs for each site, and setting up cron jobs. All I have to do now is put a pre-exec line in my logrotate config files, as I was reminded while reading the docs (thanks! I surely would have forgotten), and I'm all set.
Awesome statistics, everything I've ever wanted to know about my websites.
Most rocking web analyzer ever!
No need for other analyzers anymore, even ftp is supported!
Great work!
An open, cross-platform journaling program.
A scientific plotting package.


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Jan 3, 2005
which type of drug is typically more toxic and difficult to remain on long term - antivirals or antiretrovirals?
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Herndon, Ruth Wallis. Unwelcome Americans; Living on the Margin in Early New
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Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:36 PM
Subject: RE: [APG Public List] Research into Illegitimate Births in Europe

> Interesting indeed. Are there similar references works to cover the
> subject
> in the U.S. that you would recommend?
>
> Thanks,
> Michol Colgan
> APG member
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melanie Holtz [mailto:email@example.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:57 AM
> To: Transitional Genealogists; firstname.lastname@example.com
> Subject: RE: [APG Public List] Research into Illegitimate Births in Europe
>
>
> Christy said:
>
> "I attended a lecture last night at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy.
> It
> was given by Warren Bittner and was a fantastic discussion of researching
> illegitimacy in Europe. I would highly recommend Warren's presentation to
> anyone with illegitimate ancestors. The presentation is based on a decade
> (I
> believe he said) of research for his Master's thesis. Some of the findings
> were very surprising. Anyway, it was eye opening for me and I wanted to
> share my impressions in case anyone else gets the opportunity to attend
> this
> presentation in the future."
>
>
> I've done some research on this subject myself although, I'm sure, not to
> the extent of Mr. Bittner. My research has also focused on Italy. For
> those interested, I can suggest two books, one on infant abandonment and
> one
> on midwifery. These subjects are intertwined.
>
> "Sacrified for Honor: Italian infant abandonment and the Politics of
> Reproductive Control" by David I. Kertzer [He's also written several
> articles on this subject]
>
> "The Art of Midwivery: Early Modern Midwives in Europe" by Nadia Maria
> Filippini
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Melanie D. Holtz, CG
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about me
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Pruthvi Banwasi
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Teasing Evils
Chapter Three
Truths about Eve Teasing
This book will achieve
the success it desires if:
A woman, more often than not, is stunned
when she is confronted by an eve teaser. A lot of myths that surround eve
teasing have diluted the drive in women to face the issue with assured
certainty about their feelings and reactions. A good number of these myths
are broken down here with a hope that this would go a long way in
empowering woman to better understand the situation that they are faced
with and in drilling sense into men that eve teasing is not a macho thing
to do but on the other extreme is the act of a coward that is better
Many a women are in a state of shock and
are unsure as to what to feel. It is not surprising that due to this
ambiguity they even end up accusing themselves as the wrong doers and
suffer pangs of guilt.
Such a reaction prohibits them from
dissecting such incidents with close friends and family members and
bettering their understanding of how to react, by which they are trapped
This book will, in the least,
acclimatize women to the ways of an eve teaser and renew their strength to
face him without having to blame themselves for his actions.
How does a victim who has eve teased
react to it? How can we ensure that the victim reacts to eve-teasers in
the right way? Is there an optimum way for a woman to react to an
eve-teaser? How does she tackle eve teasing? Can we direct the way a woman
reacts to an instance of eve teasing? Can we ensure that her reaction not
only makes the eve-teaser realize that his act is wrong but further
dissuades him from unleashing a string of abuses against other women
later? All this, without causing herself any harm?
This section deals with the myths that
prevent the propagation of right thought and right action by women in our
society when confronted by an instance of eve teasing. These myths also
play a pivotal part in breaking down the resolve of others to tackle eve
teasing with conviction.
In this section an attempt is made to
break down these myths and take a reality check to better evaluate eve
teasing with a holistic perspective. Twenty two truths regarding eve
teasing are explained here.
These truths are read in co-relation to
the myths that shroud eve teasing and they seek to enable the reader to
compare his or her existing stand on aspects relating to eve teasing with
the analysis presented here.
The truth is that an
eve-teaser should be made to bear the brunt of his
The victims reaction to an eve-teaser
will determine if he will be made to realize his folly and thus deterred
from resorting to such cheap tactics again or only provide active
encouragement to the eve teaser by showing him that the victim's inaction
and the utter lack of resistance to his act is what he can expect in
future from other women too.
Silence is the best way out! Any reaction encourages the
: Only
silence or a mild retort encourages eve-teasers. By ensuring that
eve-teasers are faced with the very possibility of being made to suffer
the consequences of their actions, every time they eve tease, can we send
a severe signal to them and their ilk.
Reality :
can make an eve-teaser sweat by raising a hue and cry immediately. Public
reaction and condemnation scares the wits out of the
Any instance of eve teasing has two
aspects to it, the first being the deplorable act of eve teasing and the
second and more decisive factor in terms of the reaction to it by the
woman or women concerned. It is seen that many women react instinctively
when accosted by an eve-teaser. This instinct may provoke her to rebuke
the eve-teaser's acts or persuade her to silently get away from the
When girls report instances of eve
teasing at home, they are asked to avoid any further conflict with
eve-teasers and are reminded that every act of theirs would only go to
encourage eve-teasers; thus they are advised to be safe than sorry.
The above norm is followed by most
victims of eve teasing and has contributed to a great extent in
encouraging eve-teasers to cover further ground and crystallize even rank
amateurs to become hardcore deviants who will indulge in all possible
offences against women, thanks to the inaction and lack of resistance they
There are some girls who do not react to
eve teasing when faced by it, as they are shocked for a moment and caught
unawares by an eve-teaser. Even though they have the courage to stand up
for their dignity right then, they fail to do so as they are unsure as to
how to react.
CAUTION: Notwithstanding what is written
above it is important to note that there might be quite a good number of
situations that warrant the silent approach and avoid further
The above statement is made with the
hope that such a silence will be broken occasionally at first and then
slowly but surely become the order of the day when every eve teaser is
aware that an act of eve teasing will be a sure way of invoking the wrath
of society, starting with the very woman whom he has eve teased.
The truth is that most
girls do not report instances of eve teasing at home.
The best thing for a girl to resort to
while battling instances of eve teasing is to report the same to a
responsible elder at home, be it one of her parents or her elder siblings.
: Girls will bring instances of eve teasing to the notice
of the parents as and when they face it, thus every instance of eve
teasing is reported to her parents.
: For this to change, parents have to stop blaming the girl
who is eve teased
Reality :
Victims of eve teasing are too scared to make a mention
of such abuse to their family members, specially their parents, as they
know that they would be at the receiving end by facing some kind of
Parents are to be constantly on their
guard when it comes to protecting the girl child. They have to be on the
lookout for any sign, however insignificant it may be, that will lead them
to a dark incident that a girl child has experienced and is unsure as to
how to react.
They have to keep reassuring the girl
child that she can talk to them in case of even the slightest discomfort
that she might be facing. They have to provide the necessary strength and
support that their daughter seeks, especially so in the age of adolescence
when she is not even able to identify an instance of eve teasing and label
it so.
They also have to thrust upon themselves
the task of ensuring that the girl child has a healthy relationship with
them and that she is so very comfortable that she would approach them
first to seek advice on any issue – however minor it be. The girl child
should be made to realize that the parents are not fighting with her but
are fighting for her everyday, trying to genuinely look at the interests
of the girl at all costs.
It is true that most of the girls today
would rather face the worst consequence than bring such issues to the
notice of the parents as they would dissect this instance of
eve teasing in a manner that is bound to cause detriment to her. The
parents make statements like: "Who asked you to be there at that time of
the night?" or "I told you earlier that what you were wearing was not
appropriate!" and finally "Before I blame someone else, you should check
how you have contributed to it and brought this upon yourself!"
This sort of reaction will make the girl
decide that if she ever walks up to her parents with a genuine instance of
eve teasing she will first be accused of contributing to the act and it
will finally culminate in a statement on the lines of '"That's it!
Henceforth you shall not be out after 8 p.m." or some such stringent step
taken against the victim.
In all this the more important task of
tackling such eve-teasers is forgotten and the girl reaches a dead end
where she can no longer risk revealing such acts of eve teasing to her
As stated earlier the best thing for a
girl to resort to while battling instances of eve teasing is to report the
same to a responsible elder at home, be it one of her parents or her elder
CAUTION: The eve-teaser is hoping that you will
suffer his misconduct in silence. He only attacks those girls who show
signs of unwillingness to open up to others about such harrowing
experiences. The surest way of tackling an eve-teaser or putting him on
his guard is to inform your parents. If this is not possible then at
least inform someone in your close family circle or friends who will be
able to instill fear in the eve teaser. Getting someone to intimidate
eve-teasers and scare them by showing that you have enough people who are
not going take such a thing lightly is a sure way of driving away the will
in any eve teaser to harass you. Not reporting being eve teased to your
parents or someone you trust is the surest way of landing into more
trouble with eve teasers.
There was this interesting case of a
girl who was accosted by an eve teaser on the road every day at the very
same spot. Initially the eve teaser was content just jeering at her from a
distance, standing near a shop. Slowly, noticing that she was helpless
against his advances, he was emboldened to the extent of walking with her
for a few paces with all preparations to touch her anywhere.
This girl was unable to inform her
family against such recurring instances of eve teasing and she had a tough
time figuring out what to do. In the mean time she avoided going to school
on the pretext that she was ill. After a lot of though she decided to
become bold and worked out a plan to solve this crisis without having to
inform her family or bringing harm to herself. She took her father to
school with her the next day on the pretext that he has to personally
inform her class teacher about her illness and also ensure that her class
teacher would not deduct marks for her project submission that was to
happen that day and get some extra time to submit her project.
While they were both walking to school
this girl was hoping that the eve teaser would be around that day too.
Fortunately for her he was there as it was a Monday and he was hopeful
that she would be there that day at least (after an absence of two to
three days).
This girl who was walking with her
father, on seeing him from a distance, immediately asked her father to
check the shirt that this man was wearing and suggested to her father that
he too wear buy a similar shirt. Her father was unable to clearly see the
shirt as the eve teaser was at a distance and he strained his eyes to see
the man who was being pointed out by his daughter.
To make it clear to her father she
started gesturing repeatedly to the eve teaser and kept talking to him.
The eve teaser, on observing the girl walk with an elderly person and also
noting that she was pointing her hand towards him and talking, got the
impression that she had told her father and he had come there to take him
to task.
He scooted away before the girl's father
could get a clearer look at his shirt and that was the last time that she
was harassed by him, even though she saw him inadvertently once in a way,
at times walking by, busy with his work and at times even sulking to avoid
The truth is that we
should not wait for the next time to take stern
This is one sentence that has encouraged
many petty offenders to graduate to bigger offences and finally enter his
name in the record of criminals.
The eve-teaser will sweat when he is reprimanded thus.
: Why should
we tolerate a depraved act even once?
: An
eve-teaser has acted against the norms of decency in the first instance,
for which he has to be punished in a manner that will deter him and others
too from pulling such a debut stunt.
The judiciary has always been lenient to
first time offenders, especially so if they are not adults (under the age
of 18). This is backed by sound logic*. This is not to be the case with
eve-teasers who are no doubt making their criminal debut with an offense
that they consider as minor. They have to be made to realize that
outraging the dignity of any woman, even that isolated one time, holds
serious repercussions.
Society does not condone a murderer
appreciating the fact that it was his first kill, similarly every time an
itch to eve tease is born, that instinct has to be killed at once, lest
this eve-teaser murder two things together with one act. Firstly murdering
the dignity of any woman, in however small a manner and equally important,
murdering the decency in him that will slowly allow him to disrespect
women in greater degrees.
On spotting an eve-teaser I walk up to
them and request them to desist from indulging in such a degrading act, to
which they react in three ways, One way that is very much in vogue
(specially with first time offenders) is that they immediately grasp the
gravity of the situation and apologize quickly, wanting to scoot unscathed
from the place as soon as possible. I reprimand them lightly and request
them to not bring disrepute to their families by such acts and let them
The second way they react is that they
put up a show of indifference or mouth obscenities at me and question my
right to get involved in the situation. When I resist this assault with
authority and confidence and inform them that the same situation will be
reported to the police as what they attempted will not be tolerated in
civilized society, they realize that matters can get worse for them and
they scoot.
The third reaction which warrants the
intervention by police and their families is their showing total disregard
for societal norms and mouthing obscenities and assaulting those
questioning them in a hardened manner. Here the only way to drive sense
into them about the depravity of their act of eve teasing is by ensuring
that their families come to know of their act.
Many of these first time eve teasers are
testing waters and are cautiously trying out their skills at such an act
and are shocked by the fact that they are questioned by others who witness
their act, something that they never expected. This is when they slither
out of this situation with profound apologies and ensure that they are
never again caught in such an awkward position.
*I recall my teachers at
National Law School discuss the judgment given by Justice V. R. Krishna
Iyer when asked if a juvenile delinquent was to be awarded with jail or
bail for an offence. He ruled in this case that the court has to disallow
the delinquent's (who was a first time offender) association with hardened
criminals for reason of his fontal criminal deviance and it was their
duty, as right thinking members of a sane society to be very cautious and
ensure that the first time offender realizes that his act is an aberration
from normalcy, all this without exposing him to the world of criminals.
For if his aberration
from normalcy was to be punished with his being exposed to the avoidable
company of rogues who are contained in jail for worse offences, their
influence might cause much irreparable damage to the psyche of this
juvenile. In awarding such a punishment to the first time juvenile
delinquent the court would have failed miserably in its duties towards
safeguarding the future of this society.
Yet it is my firm belief that a first
time eve teaser is not to be let go scot free unless he is made to realize
the grave nature of his offence and is also made to thoroughly understand
the consequences that would be evoked as a natural corollary to his
uncouth act.
This does not, however, mean that he has
to be dragged to a police station or he has to be insulted in the presence
of a group of people. It is my belief that if he is spoken to in a calm
yet firm manner and sternly reprimanded for his act without the use of
threatening gestures, profanity or high pitched assertions he will still
fully comprehend the calamity that has been averted by the thoughtful
words of the person holding him responsible for such an act and will
apologize and run away from the spot, realizing that he has been shown the
easy way out. He will also revere the transfixed notion that he should
never, ever, again, even think of indulging in an act of eve teasing and
this by itself will go a long way in ensuring that he will desist from
committing graver atrocities against women in future.
CAUTION: The damage to a victim and the
triumph of the eve-teaser happens in the first instance of eve teasing.
The first time you are
harassed your wound festers if your reaction to eve teasing is that of
shame instead of castigating the offender.
The truth is that the
eve-teaser is a common man.
What is the mental image that is
conjured by most when they visualize an eve-teaser? A thug who is shabbily
dressed, with enough brawn to carry out his every threat… This picture is
a far cry from the real image of an eve teaser, which is that of a coward
who is trying his luck at attacking helpless woman.
: Eve-teasers
are hardened rowdies who worsen the situation if provoked.
: Do not let what
you see in movies dictate your logic.
Reality :
A majority of
the eve-teasers are commoners like you and me and belong to respectable
families who do not disregard the dignity to be accorded to any woman
(at least in public?).
Enough and more clichéd portrayals of
rowdy looking eve-teasers who are waiting to retrieve their lethal chains
and rusty knives awaiting the chance to square things with those who
challenge them have been portrayed in movies.
These depictions find a comfortable
parallel to the other 'realistic' portrayals of intensely dramatic
courtroom scenes and highly charged emotional out-bursts in temples, in
the sense that they are all far from reality.
Eve-teasers are more easily identified
as the next person who you might see in the streets and not bother to size
up again, for he is as inconspicuous as any other common man.
Yes, he is a typical example of a common
man. Be it the middle-aged fellow who might be quietly standing at the bus
stop, the young lad who might bring to your mind the picture of an
ordinary college kid or the elderly person who might be busy pulling out
his vehicle in a parking lot.
Eve teasers are rotten apples who remain
hidden among the tribizillion people in society. They are the kinds who
choose to ignore minimum norms of decency and still expect to be treated
on par in society.
CAUTION: The reason so many psychopaths
get away with a string of atrocities is that they always go unnoticed in a
crowd. In a similar way, eve-teasers too are the prototype of a common man
and they blend in so well that you are shocked by the violating act of a
person whom you least expected to make an indecent pass at you.
The truth is that the
police are pro-active and take immediate action.
When it comes to eve teasing the police
don the garb of true social engineers and act sternly against every
instance of eve teasing. They are right in ensuring that every complaint
of eve teasing is attended to in all seriousness and they lash out at all
eve teasers immediately.
: The police
are least bothered about eve-teasers as they have more important things to
: The police are
waiting for an instance of eve teasing to be reported to them or to be
noticed by them to take stern action against such eve teasers.
Reality :
The police
are handicapped to a great extent in checking out every instance of eve
teasing, but once an instance is reported they take the sternest possible
action to deter such eve-teasers for a lifetime.
Many instances of eve teasing are left
unreported to the police. The common man has reached a point where he is
unwilling to be victimized further by the police by reporting any loss
that has occurred to him, be it tangible or intangible.
The thoughts that prevents one from
taking a case of eve teasing to the cops is that they have many more
important things to address and that the victim might be better off by
avoiding police intervention.
The truth is a welcome deviation as most
of the cases of eve teasing reported to the police are dealt with in all
seriousness by them. Offenders are apprehended wherever possible and
further action, viz., regular police beats at places where instances of
eve teasing are noticed by the police are put up.
Most policemen acknowledge that the
nature of eve teasing as an offence itself is different from the many
offenses that are reported to them; here the wrongful loss that cannot be
quantified in objective terms caused to the psyche of the girl does
provide a cause of action, but one that has to be decided after careful
Unlike other offences reported where the
complainant himself might be at fault and holding back facts that put him
in a bad light, the police are in no two minds as to the intent behind the
complainant's act.
It is impossible for the police to be
able to take notice of every act of eve teasing that happens in the
streets (
CAUTION: The police have a well-oiled mechanism
that works to your favor when it comes to eve teasing. For every call or
complaint that reports eve teasing, the concerned police officer first
rushes policemen to the spot and these teams do their best to apprehend
eve-teasers who are harassing women there. After this a frequent patrol to
the place in question is launched and any anti-social elements loitering
there or anyone creating public nuisance face stern warning. Then mufti
police (plainclothesmen) too frequent the spot for a week or two to
systematically weed out any harassment by eve-teasers.
The truth is that when
accosted an eve-teaser is a coward.
Here it is important to understand the
mental make-up of a typical eve-teaser. As a rule that has not shown me
any exception in 500 plus cases that I have tackled, every eve-teaser who
is caught in public while committing this outrageous act by even a single
public-spirited individual will behave like a coward. Either he blatantly
lies by denying his indulgence in this offensive act or he masks his act
by asserting that his intention was never to outrage the dignity of any
woman present.
: Those who
indulge in eve teasing have all the guts in the world to do something
wrong so openly.
: An eve-teaser is
like a sly fox who waits for the right time to burst out on defenseless
Reality :
are worse than cowards (definably so in the beginning stages) and their
palpitations can wreck the curve of any stethoscope when confronted.
The eve teaser will not openly admit
that he indulged in such a depraved act. It is pertinent to note here that
an eve-teaser when apprehended will admit to having committed any crime in
this world rather than admitting that he has teased a woman, for fear of
earning eternal disrespect from society, his friends, and worst of all,
his own family.
While committing the act of eve teasing
there is an attitude of proving male supremacy in the eve-teaser but once
apprehended, even a first time eve teaser is ashamed that his family will
come to know that he has been apprehended for eve teasing. The hardened
eve-teaser is all the more scared when his family is brought into the
picture as he would not have painted a far different picture in front of
them. His cowardly nature will disallow him from openly admitting his
vices and standing by them.
Movies show eve teasers stalking woman
who stand up against them and goes to the extent of depicting scenes where
acid is thrown on them or eve teasers being depicted as hoodlums with
little or no regard for the authorities and other safeguarding elements of
society. These may be exceptions but their existence does not disprove the
rule that is hidden but is nonetheless very much in existing.
The very fact that he is not directly
approaching woman and gaining an acknowledgement of his emotions from them
shows that an eve-teaser is a coward. It is only natural for a male to vie
for the attention of woman at a certain age. This need makes him gain the
friendship of women and have them to play an important part in his
everyday interaction and even in the framing of his thoughts.
There are instances where such healthy
interactions between men and women are made impossible by the innumerable
avoidable clichés that attack society. Unable to access a healthy
relationship with women and have them play an important part in his
everyday interaction and even in the framing of his thoughts makes him
resort to the cowardly act of eve teasing.
At the age of adolescence a man idolizes
certain men and woman and aspires to take the best of what they stand for.
He benefits from interacting with women in society and gains a certain
regard for them that only grows as days passes by.
Thus when a boy is curtailed from his
interactions with the opposite sex his mind develops a warped logic that
guides him to a state of confusion regarding what the proper behavioral
mode should be while talking with women. This allows him to be influenced
by peers to indulge in the so called 'macho' act of eve
All this results in his indulgence in
certain unnatural acts that make him gain interaction with women in a
manner that is not pleasing to the women involved and these acts are
classified as eve teasing. When he lacks the guts to fulfill this
natural desire to interact with women he finds such ways to open an avenue
to them.
CAUTION: Notwithstanding everything
stated above, even though I state with great emphasis that the eve-teaser
when accosted is a coward and request all to destroy the intent in an eve
teaser to continue with his deplorable act, it has to be done without
throwing caution to the winds, specially so when women are lashing out
against it single handedly.
The truth is that eve
teasing is not a mere offence.
It is not need (theft, cheating and the
such) or greed (crimes of passion) or a wrongful act without intention (as
in cases of criminal negligence viz., rash and negligent driving) that
causes the initiation of an act of eve teasing. An eve teaser, by his act,
is giving proof that he should not to be afforded respect in
: Eve teasing
will not be taken notice of as it is just another offence.
: An eve teaser
would rather admit to theft or murder than own up his lack of respect for
women in front of his family.
Reality :
Eve teasing
will evoke disrespect for the offender for a lifetime from his family,
friends and society at large. The outrage it causes to women is not
commonplaces and should not be treated so.
It has to be understood here that eve
teasing is not just another offence, but it is an act that will give a
character certificate for a lifetime to the offender, one that is not
easily forgotten by those in contact with him. The fact that an eve teaser
will not reveal his act in front of his family is more than enough to
underline the fact that eve teasing is not considered to be another mere
offence even by the offender himself.
Eve teasing is not just another offence
but a serious one that is the first step in the invalidation of the very
respect that a woman holds in society. I firmly believe that the ability
to imbibe the essence of art and uphold culture is what places man on a
notch above the rest of nature's creations. The farce of social behavior
can well end in a man when he refuses to acknowledge his duty and
obligation of respecting women.
Every man has been accorded rights,
duties, privileges and obligations. Most of us are concentrating on making
demands regarding our rights and we conveniently forget to honour our
obligations and duties. Eve teasing is not to be taken notice of as just
another offence and should be recorded shown as an aberration that the
offender has resorted to, unmindful of his duties and obligations as a
member of a civilized society.
It is argued at police stations by
friends supporting eve teasers that they have to be excused as they have
committed this offence at a stage when they were coming to terms with life
and reality, this attitude sends wrong signals to society at large and
should not be encouraged. Eve teasers should be dealt with in a stringent
manner as they are violating the sanctity that we accord to women in
The truth is that those
who see the public trash an eve teaser support the eve teaser.
The psyche of the Indian public is to
let an eve teaser go, preferably with a mild warning only. This reality
might be hard for many to bear but is none the less the truth of the
matter. On a subconscious level the Indian society identifies with the eve
teaser and somehow gains vicarious redemption when they let an eve teaser
go scot free.
: The
bystanders who witness eve teasing take the eve teaser to
: The members of
the public would rather that an eve teaser is let off with a slight
warning only.
Reality :
The members
of the public are unwilling to assist those who are actively taking an eve
teaser to task, at considerable risk to themselves.
If at all you take an eve teaser to task
and count on gaining public support to strengthen your actions, do think
again, for many members of the public openly sympathize with the eve
teasers and would rather that they are let off than see them bear the
brunt of this disgrace by getting beaten up or by being dragged to the
police station.
This is not an exception to the rule but
the complete rule stated with ample experience. There have been instances
initially when I have been flummoxed by the lack of assertiveness of the
public in even apprehending a known eve teaser. They would rather be a
part of the process that willingly forgives all the atrocities of an eve
There was an instance when I was
trashing an eve teaser who had put Holi colors on a lady in a manner that
put her to shame. On catching up with the eve teaser after a 4 kilometer
chase and after getting the eve teaser to accept his guilt, I began
trashing him.
By then the members of the public
insisted that I let him go and even though I held on for a while,
informing them that they did not know what he had done, one of the members
of the public told me in no uncertain terms, "Whatever he has done, you
have hit him enough, just let him go!"
When I did not heed their words, they
even held me back after a point of time and instigated the eve teaser to
run away from there. They let me loose only after ensuring that the eve
teaser was far away from my grasp. Though it is appalling that many come
forward to support an eve teaser, it is possible that they refuse to
acknowledge an unseen act and would rather offer their sympathies to the
eve teaser and be benevolent enough to aid him make good his escape.
CAUTION: Members of the public will not attack an
eve teaser. It is rare that they will play a strong role in aiding those
who are being eve teased. If they do aid you it would be an added
advantage but if they are unsure as to what is to be done, then do take a
very strong stand against the eve teaser and request for minimum support
of the public, to the extent that they hold the eve teaser till the police
arrive to take the matter to its natural outcome.
The truth is that for
any woman, an eve-teaser is an infant rapist.
Forget being enamoured by an eve teaser
and furthering a romantic liaison with an eve teaser, a victim of eve
teasing will not even bother to acknowledge an eve teaser as a human
being. The truth truly is that a woman abhors an eve teaser.
: The next
natural consequence of eve teasing is that the victim will be floored by
your show of manliness.
: Any lady will not
tolerate an assault on her dignity.
Reality :
A woman hurls
an eve-teaser in the lowest possible rung of people she has ever sized
I also advise men that eve teasing will
only culminate in diluting the respect that a woman, whom they have
teased, holds for them. It is wise to not go by the illogical romances
shown in movies where the girl being teased by the guy falls for him -
hook, line and sinker by the time the third stanza (of the eve teasing
song that the crude hero sings) gets to an end!
This is an unrealistic fantasy. No woman
will be attracted to a boy who has little or no respect for a woman's
dignity. A woman is only appalled when given evidence of the lack of
upbringing in an eve-teaser.
The eve teaser, on the other hand, is a
man who takes pride in blatantly displaying his total disregard for a
woman's dignity. Thus his acts of eve teasing will, in no way, aid him to
gain respect from a woman. Eve teasing is not an act that makes you a
macho man, who the ladies are queuing up to swoon for.
It is true that boys in the age of
adolescence are subjected to peer pressure and will, in all probability,
encounter instances when their peers ask them to stand up to the occasion
and behave like vandals and resort to offenses like eve teasing or
damaging public property.
Succumbing to such influences will not
constitute to be an act that shows how manly you are. It is true that you
prove to be manly when you resist such wrong thoughts and condemn actions
that may seem to be fit at the occasion and the company but is not what an
honorable man would resort to, whatever be the pressure.
CAUTION: It will prove that you are truly a man
if you fail to fall prey to such bad influences and go the length to not
only desist from being part of such a display of eve teasing but also aid
these misled youths to get back on the right track!
Any woman is being given a reasonable
ground to think that this man who is capable of eve teasing is just
showing the tip of his moral iceberg and worse things are definitely in
store for those eves who would bother to even associate with him.
The truth is that
society should encourage interpersonal relationships between the two sexes
to avoid aberrations in perception.
When society shows man the numerous
relationships that women have with him and encourages him to accord due
respect to her in all walks of life then the chances of his seeing a woman
as a mother, sister and daughter are enhanced and he is more likely to
walk up to her with dignity.
: The
solution lies in limiting or regulating interaction of men with women in
public places.
: An eve-teaser
aspires for interaction with women but is unable to access this in a
healthy manner.
Reality :
males to develop healthy relationships with women implants respect for
women in their minds.
The faster we realize the need for a
harmonious interpersonal relationship between men and women of this world
(be they in any sect, creed or in any rung of the economic ladder), the
easier it will be to remove the influence of the so called 'necessary
evils' that are seen in abundance in society.
There are times when social scientists
too have been flummoxed by the apathy in their objective analysis of
oppression and suppression of women. It is not that they do not feel for
it on a personal level but the fact is that they know it to be such a big
chuck of existing reality that they are more interested in weeding it out
than in pausing to weep over it.
They understand the need for women to be
placed on par with man on an economic, psychological and sociological
level to lessen the load of sufferings thrust on her by her male
counterparts. It is pertinent to note that some sections of the younger
generations are emerging out of the shackles prescribed by society and are
able to react to women with a care and concern that escaped many others.
This again is attributed by social
thinkers to be a direct outcome of the interpersonal bonding that happens
between a man and a woman in the many possible relationships that enforce
in him an inbuilt and involuntary thought for her betterment and safety.
Man evolves as a respectable member of
society only when he fully fathoms the need to respect women at all times.
This respect can be cultivated at an early age and will only gain strength
with the passage of time. All that has to be done is to allow for a man to
indulge in role play with women and fit the bill of a son, brother,
nephew, cousin, friend, colleague, etc.
No man is an island and it takes a woman
to bridge any gap that may have occurred during his interaction with
society. It is true that men who eve tease are known to have a history of
non-interaction with women on a primary level and they hold in them an
innocent urge to gain proximity with women in all spheres of their lives.
This instinct is wrongly channelized to acts of eve teasing when society
does not make required provisions to encourage a structured relationship
between them and women.
An eve teaser will admit
to anything in front of his family members other than having outraged the
dignity of a woman.
When faced with the degrading prospect
of having their family members find out about their atrocious act against
a girl, they will cringe and plead, for they would rather that they be
accused of murder than stand accused in front of their family as an eve
: An eve
teaser is not scared of the consequences of his act and fear is not the
key here.
: An eve teaser
respects every woman in his family and will not face any lady in his
family when accused of eve teasing.
Reality :
An eve teaser
will cringe if his misdeed is brought to notice of his family members,
especially so if he is a hardened eve teaser.
Every person who is living in this
society has to adhere to a certain set of codes. Each one is made to
imbibe that aspect of culture which commands respect for woman, whichever
be the economic strata of society he belongs to.
In the many years that has made me walk
up to thousands of eve teasers and request them to desist from their act,
I notice that a majority realize the depravity of their acts and they
immediately scoot from the very place, lest they be recognized by anyone.
Their first thought is to avoid being spotted by even a mere acquaintance,
forget being seen by a family member.
The rest who are of the hardened kinds
initially put up a brave front and question any authority that confronts
them, in some time when their guilt is made clear, they resign in a rush
and request for lenient handling by the police.
They make it clear that they would
rather pay any amount in fine or even spend a night or two in the police
station than bring their families there and make them aware of their
having indulged in eve teasing.
I am yet to come across any eve teaser,
who would really not care if his family was brought into the picture and
informed about his indulgence in eve teasing. Thus the best punishment
that will have a lifetime's effect on an eve teaser (especially so in the
light of his being a hardened eve teaser) is to bring his act to the
notice of his family.
I had to resort to this act in an
approximation of one in twenty cases of eve teasing with the aid of the
police (and the same has to be undertaken after a lot of thought as this
will effect the image that a person has in front of his whole family and
the consequences that follow will have to be borne by him for a
I have sought to reassert to myself that
this act, used as the last resort, in extreme cases have two
The truth is that there
may be an eve-teaser in your family.
Having understood that an eve teaser is
a common man who might be anyone in our midst let us move a step further
and accept that we might have an eve teaser in our very family
: I do not
have to be on the look out for any eve teaser in my family.
: Every family has
to discourage any disrespect to woman in their own stern and sure
Reality :
Every family
has real people in them who have real emotions and are susceptible to
baser instincts too.
The moving force in this world is not a
leader who impresses the masses but the common man of this mass of
humanity who takes it upon himself to give direction to his life and thus
also affects the course that many factors and people dependent on his
decision take.
Any social phenomenon may assume
incurable dimension or be solved in a jiffy by the conscious decision of
the common man. The common man is the person who breathes in every home in
this world. He is your family member, he is you.
To rid this world of any garbage all
that one has to do is to ensure that his home and his road is clean and if
not, then the solution does not lie in pondering over what the right
course of action should be but in the actual cleansing of such garbage by
physically taking the broom and taking the garbage and throwing it away in
an appropriate place.
Assuming that every person in this world
is educated to do so, the logic in doing so will awaken a reality that
will keep your home, your road, your community, your city, your country,
your continent and thus your complete world garbage free. Garbage here
includes the kind that exists in people's minds too.
Let us not look at the possibility of an
eve teaser being bred in our family as a problem but more as a preventive
opportunity to rid this world of the mental garbage that our home has and
cleanse the same. When every home conditions itself to such thought and
rids itself of eve teasers, then it is a pragmatic certainty that our
world will be free of eve teasers and any other garbage.
This simple approach assumes the
availability of a collective conscience that again is dependent on every
single person who contributes his unshakable and moral based conscience to
this community.
The truth is that aged
people can also be eve-teasers.
Age is not a factor that commands
respect always. This unfortunate truth stares at us in our face every once
in a way and strikes a chord of disharmony to the very roots of our value
base, specially so in the Indian context which has forever taught us to
pay our unquestioned respects to those who are elder to us.
: Aged people
are not potential eve teasers.
: With the passage
of time one does not always change for the better.
Reality :
Some aged
people act like the proverbial rotten apple that brings discredit to the
whole bunch.
A famous actress and singer who is
basking in international recognition once caught an elderly gentleman in
the audience who was old enough to be her granddad cast lewd glances at
her while she was performing in a show.
Her reaction was immediate and stern, in
between the performance she threw all caution to the winds and pointing a
finger at this man and signaled that he better be careful. This simple act
of hers was enough to make this man sweat it out.
The whole crowd was aware that this man
had invited her wrath by some indecent act that was not fitting the
occasion and those standing near the man were quick to express their
discomfort, this made the man slither away from the place and thank his
lucky stars that he was let of with a slight warning.
In my years of taking eve teasers to
task I have realized that it is easier to tackle hot blooded youth who
make visible their attempts at eve teasing and face the consequence for it
than the cold calculated ways in which an elderly gentlemen eve teasers
makes it next to impossible to even assertively point a finger at him as
his acts are always bordering on decency and therefore hard to
Elders always take
refuge in acts on the lines of a lewd stare, an unwarranted bump, a
seemingly casual touch, a lingering look at a vulnerable time and usually
avoid other blatant acts of eve teasing like a sly whistle, a well-timed
clap, the humming of a suggestive song, passing downright uncouth
comments, cheap gestures, showing an indecent snap or video, etc.
This makes it difficult
for most to gauge the intention of the elderly person indulging in such an
act but not impossible. As goodness of the heart cannot be hidden in the
long run, so is it impossible for anyone to conceal malicious intent all
the time.
The truth is that eve
teasing does not occur only in desolate roads.
Gone are the days when certain places
could be safely excluded from instances of eve teasing, be they premises
that promote education, hospitals or even places of worship. Now the eve
teaser strikes with apathy in all those places which had an added sanctity
to it.
: Eve teasing
only occurs on the roads.
: Instances of eve
teasing on the roads account for a good percentage of eve
Reality :
Eve teasing
happens in every possible available place.
The inability to perceive myself to be
on the same platter with men who eve tease in hospitals, schools or even
temples is not something that I am suffering from alone. A good chunk of
men refuse to be a part of that society that has people who will not
desist from giving into banal instincts even in places where it is not at
all expected.
Roads are definitely places where woman
feel more vulnerable in the face of public attention than anywhere else.
It is here that she has had innumerable encounters with all kinds of eve
teasers. It is here that she felt many humiliations and began to feel
apologetic for her very existence, yet the travelogue of travails with eve
teasers is not limited to these roads only.
Name a place where she is saved the
trouble of having to watch out for eve teasers now. Women have learnt to
be on their guard while conducting themselves in shopping malls, the many
outlets and cinema halls therein and every other conceivable place.
'Ramrajya' is equated to be a utopian
condition where the entire society basks in amity according to Indian
mythology. To describe this learned men have depicted a condition where a
beautiful woman, bedecked in ornaments, walks in the middle of the night
on a desolate road without fear.
The analogy indirectly underlines the
fact that if a woman is safe on the roads in the dead of the night with
valuables on her, then she need not nurture fear in any place that she
finds herself in.
Taking this as a barometer to assess the
present standards we fall short in comparison, for even now a woman cannot
move around without fear or assured support. Such being the case she has
to be a step ahead of her eve teaser in this obstacle race of life to be
able to escape his harassment.
The truth is that an
eve-teaser will not attack any woman he chances upon.
Eve teasers might be sly but they are
not fools, in fact they are a tad bit too clever, as is the case with many
who go against the norms of society. The eve teaser too knows that if he
accosts any woman who is confident about herself there is a possibility
that she might lash out against him or create a racket, thus placing him
in public scrutiny. To avoid this he selects his victim, mostly by gauging
her lack of confidence.
: An eve
teaser will indiscriminately pounce upon any woman he
: Eve teasers too
are weary of being caught and are on the lookout for danger
Reality :
An eve teaser
will only harass those who show him an inkling of insecurity in most of
the cases.
Women should be bold and confident or at
least appear to be so when out in public, this is bound to make any
potential eve teaser think twice before he attempts to pull a stunt. Show
him a sign of insecurity and he will be the first to pounce on you,
without a thought about the consequences, for he is well aware that any
woman who has a visible lack of confidence will not be spunky enough to
report the matter to anyone or even lash out against him.
An eve teaser knows that most of the
women who walk on the roads are unwilling to take matters too far, how
else does he account for the innumerable successful eve teasing episodes
that his friends have bragged about. An eve teaser is assured by his
friends that they have indulged in the same act many times over and the
unwritten law is that they address those women who do not display
confidence as they go by their lives as they are not capable of lashing
out at them.
The truth is that most eve teasers are
put off when they see women who are confident as they know that the risk
of being dragged to public gaze is higher.
It is hoped that after reading this book
women will be more confident (even in a non-confrontational way) when they
are accosted by eve teasers and the very show of confidence will go a long
way in putting off any attempts of eve teasers of harassing them and thus
eve teasers too will find lesser opportunities in displaying their
unwanted urges.
The truth is that
educated people can also be eve-teasers.
It is not lack of education but the
inability to apply the values bred in them by academic orientation that
leads men to indulge in eve teasing. Education has failed to a great
extent in inculcating ethics, morals and the 'ought' factor that cautions
man to consciously behave better.
: Educated
people do not indulge in eve teasing.
: Education today
merely shows one the right way but does enforce one to walk
Reality :
people are equally responsible for indulging in eve
No longer can we safely blame the
uneducated masses for a majority of the social evils and the
socio-economic offences that are threatening to throttle the very breath
of harmonious life in today's world. In reality educated people are
equally responsible for the propagation and perpetuation of social evils.
They use their education to take undue advantage of the law and further to
vociferously put across their justifications.
Any policeman will vouch for the fact
that a majority of the traffic rules are flouted not by the uneducated
people but the educated ones who throw caution to the winds and break the
law and then argue with the authorities when caught red handed. The
illiterate masses would rather not fall foul of the law and cough up
Here the educated man has three things
that work in his favor; firstly he can get to escape by stating that his
act did not amount to harmful eve teasing. According to him, he was well
within limits of decency and too much has been read into an innocent act.
He can use his education to argue for a prescription of the benefit of
doubt to his act.
Secondly he will resort to some kind of
influence or even indulge in bribing the authorities to escape the logical
punishment that would follow his dastardly act. Thirdly he will blatantly
lie and claim that he has been falsely implicated and that he was not at
all involved in any act of eve teasing.
These escape routes are also known to
the uneducated but the handicap of not being able to vociferously advocate
these might make them choose the available option of pleading guilty and
placing themselves at the mercy of those who take them to task.
The truth is that
eve-teasers do not target only those women who lead them on.
For an eve teaser every woman is a
potential victim and he does not search around and wait until a woman who
seems to welcome such advances appears on the scene. It is possible that
an eve teaser may find it convenient to focus on those women who are meek
and are walking with their gaze fixed to the ground.
: Eve teasers
target only those women who lead them on.
: Eve teasers may
take note of the confidence or the lack of it that a woman shows in
deciding if she is a safe victim, not her reaction to it.
Reality :
Eve teasers
accost any woman when they are confident that they will suffer no
detriment with total disregard to the response of the said
Eve teasers might not behave like
compulsive maniacs when they see women but they will surely not let a
chance pass by without accosting women when they are certain that they
will go scot free with such an aberration.
An eve teaser has been convinced that
his act will prove irresistible to women. This is because he goes by the
popular notion that the woman who is eve teased and provoked ends up
falling in love with the 'macho man' who has eve teased her, a
misconception that is so well woven in regional movies.
Thus he is not looking for any signs
welcoming his advances, as he plays the game according to the rules so
well laid out, it is for him to make the first move and this only means
that he can target any unsuspecting victim who might not even know about
his existence. Words or gestures are not needed to encourage the eve
teaser initiative to abuse women.
He just has to sum up a girl and label
her as one who will not be able to lash out against him and that would sum
up all the qualifications that he is looking for in a woman to make her
his immediate target.
This truth has to be understood in its
entirety by all the parents and guardians of girls who somehow sow the
suspicion that the girl played an active part in the whole incident. At
times the moment a girl reports a case of eve teasing to her family; it is
a fact that the family members accuse her of contributing to the act by a
little more then her mere presence at an unguarded place. An inkling of
such a notion is all that is needed to create a bias and make the girl
suffer for her act of reporting an incident of eve teasing that she was
made an unwilling part of.
The truth is that the
eve-teaser waits for the right time to burst out on defenseless
This is another reassertion of the fact
that the eve teaser is a coward. He will not ignore the moral depravity of
his act but is cautious enough to be up to his wily ways only when it safe
for him to do so. He will not be up to his tricks when there is a chance
that he might be taken to task.
: Eve teasers
are macho men who accost anyone in random.
: Eve teasers are
very selective about their prey. They would rather stand in silence when
women move around due to bad timing than fall prey to their own
Reality :
Eve teasers
are cowards by nature and are experts in selecting the right time to
target defenseless and meek woman who (in all probability) will not react
in an assertive manner against their misdeeds.
An eve teaser is definitely not a brave
man. For if he was anything near being brave he would have found other
civilized ways of reaching out and bonding with women. He knows fully well
that eve teasing is not the right mode to get in touch with woman, so he
waits for the right moment to burst out on them when they are
He is seeking gratification for himself
by reaching out to women in a crude manner. Here he is further cautious as
he knows that his act is not welcomed by civilized society and so he has
to be clever enough to escape attention and emerge unscathed after
harassing women.
When an eve teaser accosts helpless
women he underlines his inability to inflict harm on those stronger than
him. Cowards have to plan their way well so as to ensure that they are not
caught. Being a coward an eve teaser too acts in a similar fashion by
scheming and getting what he wants without causing any detriment to his
own self.
The truth is that eve
teasing is not a macho thing to do.
The definition of a macho man is one who
does not think twice before using his might to do the right thing, not one
who wrecks havoc on those who are gagged by circumstances and are unable
to stand up to their rights.
: You are
macho if you eve tease.
: Any woman aspires
to be accorded with respect.
Reality :
Women loathe
those who are unable to afford dignity to the very women that men are born
When was the last time you praised the
manly qualities of any man who used his available might to wreck havoc on
a woman who is expending all her energies to strive for an identity and
earn her wings. The only way to answer this query is by reminding
ourselves that we, as civilized humans, are never admired for our cruelty
towards any living being in society.
The truth is that a man wishing to
proclaim his manly qualities by eve teasing is walking far away from his
goals. To prove your manliness, unlike the popular misconception, one does
not merely have to inhale cancer sticks, speed on bikes and cars without
skill, consume alcohol or treat women with disrespect.
A show of physical strength or an
ability to indulge in mental gymnastics to achieve the outcome of gaining
more money or power is something that is within the reach of all the
weaklings of this world. Contrary to popular notions these attributes are
really no barometer to measure how 'macho' one really is.
To be a macho man one has to work much
harder. Even if the temptation and the opportunity to tease a woman comes
his way he has to prove his macho qualities by restraining himself from
taking the easy way out. The truth is that his refusal to give in to
pressure from his peers and disallowing them to treat him like a boy and
make him an eve teaser is what will make a man out of him.
The truth is that eve
teasing is also faced by small children.
It is astounding to note that eve
teasing is no longer a phenomenon faced by college kids or working women
only. It begins much earlier nowadays, an act of eve teasing may be
imprinted in the mind of a mere child who is 5-6 years old. This act is
registered in her mind and instills fear on recall.
: Eve teasing
is faced by girls in college or when they near the age of
: Many women recall
instances that can be termed as eve teasing at a very tender
Reality :
A high
percentage of women accept that they have witnessed instances that can be
classified as eve teasing from the age of 5-6 onwards.
When I asked many women as to when was
it that they noticed eve teasing first, they were all pointing to a time
in their childhood when they felt uneasy or perturbed by an act that they
were unable to place. It was only much later that they gave it a negative
Though it is a welcome relief that the
management in many Kindergarten and Montessori schools have taken it upon
themselves to educate the parents or guardians to discriminate against a
good touch and a bad touch and further sensitize them to the unspoken
signals that a child gives out by showing a degree of discomfort with
It is hearty to note that such efforts
are being made to educate parents and disallow any child from suffering
the ill-effects of eve teasing; somewhere in the corner of our minds we
are also saddened by the fact that these things have to be dealt with at
such a tender age.
The truth is that the
best solution to tackle eve teasing lies in creating
Awareness is the best remedy for a
multitude of issues. I am well aware that when I am tackling an eve teaser
and taking him to task I am merely addressing the actualization of his
uncouth thoughts. Trashing an eve teaser is not a preventive act but an
act that merely seeks to set right a wrong perpetuated by him. Crisis
management is not the relief afforded in times of crisis but managing a
crisis beforehand too.
: Eve teasing
can be tackled by effectively accosting eve teasers.
: Awareness is a
universal solution to most problems.
Reality :
The social
evil of eve teasing has to be wiped out systematically and from its very
A holistic approach will go a long way
in curbing the social evil of eve teasing. Acts in isolation create
significant ripples but to weed out eve teasing in totality we have to
initiate strong waves of awareness in society regarding all aspects of eve
teasing. By doing so one is attacking the issue from all angles and thus
hopes for the eradication of the same are very high. A holistic approach
will ensure that people are deterred from becoming eve teasers by creating
awareness among boys and establishing a mindset in them that will disallow
them from becoming eve teasers.
People should start looking out for
careers instead of merely seeking jobs, they should try and gain an
education instead of trying to channelize all their efforts to obtaining
degrees, they should apply the values taught to them instead of preaching
about the absence of these values in others and they should foremost apply
the right thoughts that have been instilled in them and show culture and
stand up against the base act of eve teasing.
This is how they can create awareness in
others that eve teasing will not be tolerated and also drive home the
message to other civilized members of society that eve teasing should not
be tolerated. Awareness among the public about the damage caused by eve
teasers and the depraved nature of their indulgence will only strengthen
their resolve to stand up against eve teasing, especially so if they are
educated on all aspects regarding eve teasing.
A lady too has to realize that her
fighting back against eve teasing will hold the following benefits for
If such awareness is geared up then eve
teasers too will be wary of possible attacks by the public or by the woman
herself and will decide to be safe than sorry and curb their urge to eve
Awareness will also aid in establishing
right from an early age that:
* Boys can be
mischievous but cannot disrespect women at any time.
* Girls learn from an
early age to raise their voice against eve teasing.
In all it can safely be said that a long
term plan to eradicate eve teasing should have a holistic approach and the
best way to tackle eve teasing from all corners is to spread awareness
about this social evil to such an extent that people are compelled to
repel it through and through.
The truth is that woman
of this era are not empowered per se to fight back against eve teasers.
Empowerment of woman is a phrase that I
have carefully avoided in this entire book, the reason for this is that it
is a fallacy to assume hat women in India are liberated and empowered.
This might be true in a decimal level in urban areas as against the
multitude of women who are still bound firmly to the ramshackle of
societal suppression, more so in rural areas.
: Modern
woman are not automatically packaged to stand their ground against eve
: Empowerment of
women is yet to be achieved in a manner that will scare the wits out of
anyone who wishes to ill-treat them or take undue advantage of
Reality :
Women of
today are still facing enough discrimination from womb to tomb that
disallows them from growing into complete and confident human
Liberation in the true sense underlines
the ability of a woman to take complete respect for every act of hers and
decide to do something.
True liberation is earned by a woman
only when she takes decisions without bothering about any external factor.
In India's metropolitan cities there is a possibility that a woman can
proclaim that she is liberated after a certain point of time but to a
greater extent such liberation is still eluding the feminine majority in
To liberate woman in the true sense one
should show women their strength instead of purporting to support them. It
is not enough if a certain aspect of a woman's life is left to her
discretion. Using this as a prime example one cannot shout from the roof
tops that this woman is liberated as she has decided some aspect of her
life without bothering about another's reaction.
Liberation of women in any sense is akin
to an exception that is being lobbied to prove itself as a rule.
Empowerment of women is not a consequence that is required to be achieved
with some effort. It should be inherent to the very breath of existence of
Undiluted respect to women in one's
family should be inculcated by everyone in Indian society. The not so
subtle hints of male domination and instances of abject subjugation of
woman within the family breed the notion of tolerance to any atrocity
committed on women. It is unfortunate that such an anomaly co-exists in
our society.
women are given due respect as life givers, their vulnerable position in
the societal structure makes them an easy target for men. Their
empowerment is a sure way of making others think many times before trying
to make them easy targets.
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