Mr. Tejpal- The Preaching Predator and the hollow values of tehelka!!!

It is today that I got to read the complete script of the victims’ complaint letter that she has sent to her boss, a proclaimed Women Activist Ms. Shoma Chaudhury. I was just stunned. There were not one but many things that shook my conscience, my thoughts and my vision.

I feel agitated and frustrated at the same time. Power has definitely corrupted people in every walk of life, but here the guilty is the one who earns his bread and butter by preaching probity. A person, who has indeed harnessed every fruit of democratic freedom to the full, couldn’t keep up with one simplest of his duties.

It is hard to reconcile the anger, knowing the fact that Mr. Tejpal is at the apical of the organisation which has violated every possible norms, trespassed work ethics and broke into the private spaces of people, all in the name of doing largesse for the society’s betterment. Now keeping him behind the bars would enrich the bourn.

When I finished reading the letter I could feel the torment of not one but two Girls. The second one is the victims’ friend who incidentally is also the culprit’s daughter. I wonder how she would have dealt with the two roles in the current situation.

I am flustered with the plight of the forthright victim.

Undoubtedly, the sufferer should be appreciated for all the professionalism she showed in dealing with this incident. She accomplished all duties bestowed upon her even between these tremors to her dignity. She didn’t wanted her boss to fire her up on the name of incompetence as an aftermath of the incident. The boss who while manhandling her tried to establish his dominance over her by shamelessly informing her that this was the easiest way for her to keep her job. This is the classic example of male chauvinist passing off their hard-on's need as the easy ones for others.

I am agitated because the father figure of the girl did prosaic acts with her and even dared to message her afterwards by writing THE FINGERTIPS, incidentally describing his fearlessness. That jerk even after this tried to lure her in to the room on the other day and when being failed in to it again tried things in the elevator.

What had he on his mind? How normal were these things for him that he was doing such things in between of conducting an event with high profile attendees such as Robert De Noir and Amitabh Bacchan?

Shouldn’t it be probed that are there any more girls whom he has violated before on the name of his power and position? I doubt at least the self-proclaimed pioneers of the investigative journalism wouldn’t dare to do so.

I am dejected because besides being an employee, the victim’s credentials of both being his friend’s daughter and his daughter’s friend, couldn’t save her from the nerd’s lust.

She rightfully informed Mr. Tejpal’s daughter, who according to the letter thrashed her father by telling him to keep it-in-his-pants. The agony of his daughters must be unbearable. The leech broke the ultimate faith in his lust.

I am anguished at the thought of remembering that Mr. Tejpal passed these things on as the Judgemental Error? Like what he wanted to indicate to? Using fingers because he couldn't unzip the fly, is this the judgement error?

I am frustrated to hear him wanting a penance. What does he thinks he has done, picked up his nose on the live TV or passed on the gas in some esteemed gathering? No bigot you have done an assault- assault amounting to 10 years in prison so stop masking behind this foolish act of charity. And his colleague Ms. Shoma thinks that his six months stepping down from the job would be more than enough. Oh, so he gets a leave and holiday for sexually harassing an employee? Does she even have a bit of idea what example is she creating?

Given her position she would have also been a 22 years old journalist sometime, it’s easier for her to understand the pain, the reluctance of the victim to fight and the necessity to look after her career at this stage. It would be better if Ms. Shoma instead of pushing the matter beneath the carpet, take up a stand, offer her shoulder to the victim and fight from her side for the justice she deserves.

And lastly I am agitated because I also want to be a journalist and have high regards for the profession and you have brought a bad name to it. You even though have huge contribution in the field in India but still it is much better off with no, not even a single person like you.

When preacher turns in to predator, the cage is the place to keep him in.

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