12-29-2006, 07:19 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-"Vishwas+ you said"-->QUOTE("Vishwas @ you said")<!--QuoteEBegin-->"In effect, this family was pinpointed for this crime, because of longstanding disputes between the family and some of the other villagers."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You are true till the above point. Read my post again.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If the perpetrators of the crime had stealthily hacked this family in the cover of the night with Hitchcockian perfection, this would not have been a caste related murder. Just like you say - about dispute. But they did it in broad daylight, complete with the presence of elders and others of from the lower castes. It is not the motive (money) but the method (complete humiliation of the family and the message to others) that makes this a caste crime.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
While you are precise on why the family was targetted, why are you ignoring the qualitative nature of the crime? The more important fact that the male of the family was left alone after witnessing the crime.
I sense a great deal of intransigence from members on the board to call it a caste related crime. There is call for technical details, there is a sense that I somehow am proposing something preposterous by calling it a caste related crime. Why is it difficult to think that some arrogant landlords were completely outraged by a lower caste family owning land, intimidating them at first and when that did not work hacking them in such a way that they and their cohorts will remember for generations!
You are true till the above point. Read my post again.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If the perpetrators of the crime had stealthily hacked this family in the cover of the night with Hitchcockian perfection, this would not have been a caste related murder. Just like you say - about dispute. But they did it in broad daylight, complete with the presence of elders and others of from the lower castes. It is not the motive (money) but the method (complete humiliation of the family and the message to others) that makes this a caste crime.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
While you are precise on why the family was targetted, why are you ignoring the qualitative nature of the crime? The more important fact that the male of the family was left alone after witnessing the crime.
I sense a great deal of intransigence from members on the board to call it a caste related crime. There is call for technical details, there is a sense that I somehow am proposing something preposterous by calling it a caste related crime. Why is it difficult to think that some arrogant landlords were completely outraged by a lower caste family owning land, intimidating them at first and when that did not work hacking them in such a way that they and their cohorts will remember for generations!