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Is there a perspective on the Meera episode other than what the media is dishing out and on which basis the woman has become a laughing stock?
First, lets get some facts straight and see if the same set of facts can be used for a more sympathetic, if not condonable, view of the woman.
It is a safe bet that she is lying, not just about this marriage but also about being paak-saaf. If she is a virgin then I am St Paul.
Her incomplete Geo TV interview, which at some point gave her a migraine, and in which she swore upon her mothers and brothers and her own life that she is unmarried and a virgin before asking the interviewer to switch off the camera is yet another proof, if proof were required, that she has got herself into heavy **** and is now doing whatever she can to get out of it. Its quite another thing that, caught as she is in a morass, her struggle to get out of it is only pulling her down further.
[As an aside on media ethics, a point I dont see being raised so far, let me put it on record that it was obnoxious conduct on the part of the channel to (a) run the tape beyond the point at which she requested that the camera be switched off; and (b) for the two news anchors sitting smugly in the newsroom, smirking and making comments about her and by doing so going past their professional brief. This is of course an issue that needs a separate discussion.]
It is very likely that Meera has fleeced this guy Attique; it is equally likely that the guy married her for his own pound of flesh (no pun). Of course, it is easy to hang, draw and quarter Meera; not only because despite our modernity we remain entrenched in the culture of spectacle but also because when it comes to a woman, especially a loose one who has got her comeuppance, most of us begin to personify the worst of Victorian morality.
That Meera is loose and knavish we have been told. Consider now another set of facts.
She was born a woman with no money, no education and no family background in a massively class-based society. At the minimum this is disadvantage raised to power four and would weigh down even most men through one lifetime; for a woman, such conditions mean virtual death even at the moment she is born.
A society that does everything in its power to deprive those who are not born with the right credentials with any possibility of social mobility should not expect that someone born in the gutter, but with the will to move up, would not, on the way, break norms and short-change everyone.
Law is an *** and tends to take a snapshot view of things. But a society that is more empathetic, in theory, would consider a longitudinal design while judging someone. This is not to say crimes and misdemeanours may be allowed to go unpunished. Just that while we are preparing to throw someone on the ground and stomp on her, we might want to consider whether the person is innately evil or has been conditioned by us to lie and cheat because that is the only way to survive and move up.
Attacking Meera from all sides is the game in town. Her English-language skills are being sniggered about, sometimes by those who, on pain of death, cant speak or write one straight sentence in that language or, for that matter, any language known to man.
Exhibit: A City42 reporter got hold of Meeras emails to Attique. He said something to the effect that since this is Meeras English you [viewers, presumably] should not be surprised. And then he proceeded to read them out and his own familiarity with the English language made my stomach churn. But he had the upper hand and was obviously enjoying himself at the expense of a fallen woman.
Meera, I am told, once said, when asked about her education, that she has done intercourse. This and other such gems have made her a butt of jokes. I know lots of respectable women, born without Meeras disadvantages, who have been to great institutions and also done intercourse. But their respectability, begotten of right credentials or money or contacts or all of that combined and much more, shields them from the harsh scrutiny of this society. There are stories here that would make Meera look positively like an angel.
Many of us, men and women, would swear upon this or that, like Meera is doing, to get out of a bad situation, especially one of our own making. Thats a moment when one can either choose to give full vent to ones fury at someone trying to insult ones intelligence or temper ones anger with pity for that person. At least at that moment that person, one assumes, is scared; in case of a woman, she may revert to her ways but that moment, I would tend to think, is a flicker of realisation.
Of course one can argue that such flickers of realisation dont matter, and I agree. Meera is not someone who will make a good wife, to put it in a traditional way. I will also consent to the fact that it is virtually impossible for the law to take cognisance of anything but the immediate and the visible. So, Meera may be punished if found guilty of fraud etc. But it is our attitude, as a society, that needs to be questioned because we love to see another in misery and take perverse pleasure in it.
My larger point is: how many of us would not lie if lying were to save us from going under? None of us is respectable or at least has always been so, and that cliché about let he who is without sin cast the first stone holds even today.
Ejaz Haider is op-ed editor of Daily Times, consulting editor of The Friday Times and host of Samaa TVs programme Siyasiyat. He can be reached at sapper@dailytimes.com.pk
Ejaz Haider
Is there a perspective on the Meera episode other than what the media is dishing out and on which basis the woman has become a laughing stock?
First, lets get some facts straight and see if the same set of facts can be used for a more sympathetic, if not condonable, view of the woman.
It is a safe bet that she is lying, not just about this marriage but also about being paak-saaf. If she is a virgin then I am St Paul.
Her incomplete Geo TV interview, which at some point gave her a migraine, and in which she swore upon her mothers and brothers and her own life that she is unmarried and a virgin before asking the interviewer to switch off the camera is yet another proof, if proof were required, that she has got herself into heavy **** and is now doing whatever she can to get out of it. Its quite another thing that, caught as she is in a morass, her struggle to get out of it is only pulling her down further.
[As an aside on media ethics, a point I dont see being raised so far, let me put it on record that it was obnoxious conduct on the part of the channel to (a) run the tape beyond the point at which she requested that the camera be switched off; and (b) for the two news anchors sitting smugly in the newsroom, smirking and making comments about her and by doing so going past their professional brief. This is of course an issue that needs a separate discussion.]
It is very likely that Meera has fleeced this guy Attique; it is equally likely that the guy married her for his own pound of flesh (no pun). Of course, it is easy to hang, draw and quarter Meera; not only because despite our modernity we remain entrenched in the culture of spectacle but also because when it comes to a woman, especially a loose one who has got her comeuppance, most of us begin to personify the worst of Victorian morality.
That Meera is loose and knavish we have been told. Consider now another set of facts.
She was born a woman with no money, no education and no family background in a massively class-based society. At the minimum this is disadvantage raised to power four and would weigh down even most men through one lifetime; for a woman, such conditions mean virtual death even at the moment she is born.
A society that does everything in its power to deprive those who are not born with the right credentials with any possibility of social mobility should not expect that someone born in the gutter, but with the will to move up, would not, on the way, break norms and short-change everyone.
Law is an *** and tends to take a snapshot view of things. But a society that is more empathetic, in theory, would consider a longitudinal design while judging someone. This is not to say crimes and misdemeanours may be allowed to go unpunished. Just that while we are preparing to throw someone on the ground and stomp on her, we might want to consider whether the person is innately evil or has been conditioned by us to lie and cheat because that is the only way to survive and move up.
Attacking Meera from all sides is the game in town. Her English-language skills are being sniggered about, sometimes by those who, on pain of death, cant speak or write one straight sentence in that language or, for that matter, any language known to man.
Exhibit: A City42 reporter got hold of Meeras emails to Attique. He said something to the effect that since this is Meeras English you [viewers, presumably] should not be surprised. And then he proceeded to read them out and his own familiarity with the English language made my stomach churn. But he had the upper hand and was obviously enjoying himself at the expense of a fallen woman.
Meera, I am told, once said, when asked about her education, that she has done intercourse. This and other such gems have made her a butt of jokes. I know lots of respectable women, born without Meeras disadvantages, who have been to great institutions and also done intercourse. But their respectability, begotten of right credentials or money or contacts or all of that combined and much more, shields them from the harsh scrutiny of this society. There are stories here that would make Meera look positively like an angel.
Many of us, men and women, would swear upon this or that, like Meera is doing, to get out of a bad situation, especially one of our own making. Thats a moment when one can either choose to give full vent to ones fury at someone trying to insult ones intelligence or temper ones anger with pity for that person. At least at that moment that person, one assumes, is scared; in case of a woman, she may revert to her ways but that moment, I would tend to think, is a flicker of realisation.
Of course one can argue that such flickers of realisation dont matter, and I agree. Meera is not someone who will make a good wife, to put it in a traditional way. I will also consent to the fact that it is virtually impossible for the law to take cognisance of anything but the immediate and the visible. So, Meera may be punished if found guilty of fraud etc. But it is our attitude, as a society, that needs to be questioned because we love to see another in misery and take perverse pleasure in it.
My larger point is: how many of us would not lie if lying were to save us from going under? None of us is respectable or at least has always been so, and that cliché about let he who is without sin cast the first stone holds even today.
Ejaz Haider is op-ed editor of Daily Times, consulting editor of The Friday Times and host of Samaa TVs programme Siyasiyat. He can be reached at sapper@dailytimes.com.pk
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Govt must throw her out of our Country
Govt must throw her out of our Country
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Muse sir,
Hats off for you sir, great post,a very realistic approach, i 100% agree to you, and i think its appropriate to introduce another dimension of my life and that is i was an anchor person on news and current affairs channel in radio pakistan headquarters islamabad till mid 2006 and was awarded excellent performance certificate by radio pakistan, i then had to leave media for this job, it seemed so attractive when i was a part of media but when i joined this organization which i am working for uptill now, i saw another face of media, the organization that i work for is a public sector organization and serves marginalized segment of the society, and i was incharge of the branch which use to give financial support to poor people in the society, after the freedom of media i experianced an ugly face of these people and literally anyone with the camera would enter our office,introduce his/her news paper or channel and try to take advantage of it, my superiors would not stand that and would bow down to their evil designs, but i am a very strong man and i was very clear what my sense of consicence would require me to do, i remember one day my superior was on leave and a person holding a camera came to my office and introduced himself as a reporter of a local newspaper and asked me to do him a favour in a tone of voice which clearly suggested the level of confidence that he might had to persuade me for doing what he wanted me to do, i in a very amiable way told him that it was not legal and i was unable to oblige him, he left my office and was furious of this dejection, i knew he would surely strike me and that happened, one day he came to my office and i wasn't aware of this fact, i went to the washroom for nature's call and he entered my room and took snaps of my empty chair and left the office, when i returned someone told me what had happened, and who was the person who did that, had i been weak i'd surely call him and appologize for my "regretfull denial" the other day and do whatever he desired me to do, but i,ve been and idiot all my life, so what i did shocked him, i called GEO news(his newspaper was a part of jang group) and told them where i ranked GEO's efforts for exposing the truth and how much i appreciated that, then i told them my views completly changed after that incident and i then believed that like some other news groups jang group also believed in yellow journalism, they were ashamed of the act of their reporter and appologized to me and ensured me that no defamation would be carried out against my department or me and they'd put that person to the task and he'll never showup again, they kept their words, and this incident spreadout rapidly to all in the media and no one ever showed up with an idea in his mind to have coersive design to achieve the unjust from me, i strongly believe that media should be free but to a certain extent, their limits must be specified, same is the case with judiciary, after successfull re-instatement of the honourable chief justice of pakistan, the lawyers feel that law doesn't apply to them and we have seen on many occasions in the recent past that they have beaten up police and even journalists, this shouldn't be happening in pakistan, everyone should work with a positive and progressive mindset for the wellbeing of this nation...
Hats off for you sir, great post,a very realistic approach, i 100% agree to you, and i think its appropriate to introduce another dimension of my life and that is i was an anchor person on news and current affairs channel in radio pakistan headquarters islamabad till mid 2006 and was awarded excellent performance certificate by radio pakistan, i then had to leave media for this job, it seemed so attractive when i was a part of media but when i joined this organization which i am working for uptill now, i saw another face of media, the organization that i work for is a public sector organization and serves marginalized segment of the society, and i was incharge of the branch which use to give financial support to poor people in the society, after the freedom of media i experianced an ugly face of these people and literally anyone with the camera would enter our office,introduce his/her news paper or channel and try to take advantage of it, my superiors would not stand that and would bow down to their evil designs, but i am a very strong man and i was very clear what my sense of consicence would require me to do, i remember one day my superior was on leave and a person holding a camera came to my office and introduced himself as a reporter of a local newspaper and asked me to do him a favour in a tone of voice which clearly suggested the level of confidence that he might had to persuade me for doing what he wanted me to do, i in a very amiable way told him that it was not legal and i was unable to oblige him, he left my office and was furious of this dejection, i knew he would surely strike me and that happened, one day he came to my office and i wasn't aware of this fact, i went to the washroom for nature's call and he entered my room and took snaps of my empty chair and left the office, when i returned someone told me what had happened, and who was the person who did that, had i been weak i'd surely call him and appologize for my "regretfull denial" the other day and do whatever he desired me to do, but i,ve been and idiot all my life, so what i did shocked him, i called GEO news(his newspaper was a part of jang group) and told them where i ranked GEO's efforts for exposing the truth and how much i appreciated that, then i told them my views completly changed after that incident and i then believed that like some other news groups jang group also believed in yellow journalism, they were ashamed of the act of their reporter and appologized to me and ensured me that no defamation would be carried out against my department or me and they'd put that person to the task and he'll never showup again, they kept their words, and this incident spreadout rapidly to all in the media and no one ever showed up with an idea in his mind to have coersive design to achieve the unjust from me, i strongly believe that media should be free but to a certain extent, their limits must be specified, same is the case with judiciary, after successfull re-instatement of the honourable chief justice of pakistan, the lawyers feel that law doesn't apply to them and we have seen on many occasions in the recent past that they have beaten up police and even journalists, this shouldn't be happening in pakistan, everyone should work with a positive and progressive mindset for the wellbeing of this nation...
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very good abbas khan. but you know batter that the ugly face of media wich groom in film sector . i think it is the deuty of new media worker to point out the brazen face dameging media cractor and stop them and stop the glamour trade wich done by mera
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thanks brother for ur compliments, yes u r right that self improvement is the best way towards progress, however, we all are interlinked in the society and does have influence on eachother, so we should keep trying and helping eachother to improve ourselves through positive criticism, the most alarming trend in our society is to follow the seemingly successfull mob without judging the ways and means adopted by that mob for that success and even without assesing the legitimacy of the act which is being done, i think what our nation lacked for half a century was to put resistance to the wrong people, time is changing and all of us are very important in our positions to contribute towards improving our society as a whole...
thanks brother for ur compliments, yes u r right that self improvement is the best way towards progress, however, we all are interlinked in the society and does have influence on eachother, so we should keep trying and helping eachother to improve ourselves through positive criticism, the most alarming trend in our society is to follow the seemingly successfull mob without judging the ways and means adopted by that mob for that success and even without assesing the legitimacy of the act which is being done, i think what our nation lacked for half a century was to put resistance to the wrong people, time is changing and all of us are very important in our positions to contribute towards improving our society as a whole...
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