On the night of 20 May
2012 (Sunday) the Mumbai police busted a rave party in a posh hotel in Juhu and
detained 96 participants including 2 star IPL
players: Wayne
Parnell and Rahul Sharma (of Pune Warriors). The detainees were allowed to go after
submitting their blood and urine samples. Rahul Sharma
claimes that he has never touched alcohol and he had gone to attend a birthday
party and was unaware about the rave party. He was arrested with an hour- at 8
PM- of reaching the venue.
Vishay Handa, who is the director of impugned
venue- Oakwood Premier Hotel- has been arrested under Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances Act.
Why do they call it a
rave party?
According
to ‘Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994’ of UK the "music"
at these parties includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the
emission of a succession of repetitive beats. When it is loud-
which is the norm- quite naturally it would be a nuisance to the surrounding
locality. Besides they also found around 110gm of cocaine and several tablets,
suspected to be entactogenic drugs, like Ecstasy.
History of rave
parties
Late
1950s in London saw the term "Rave" used to describe the
"wild bohemian parties". In 1958 Buddy
Holly recorded the hit "Rave On," citing the madness and frenzy
of a feeling and the desire for it to never end. The word "rave"
was later used in the burgeoning mod youth culture of the early 1960s
as the way to describe any wild party in general. People who were gregarious party animals were described
as "ravers". Pop musicians such as Steve
Marriott of The Small Faces and Clare Willans were
self-described "ravers".
Source:
Wikipedia
What
are entactogenic drugs?
The
word "entactogen" is derived from the roots "en" (Greek: within), "tactus" (Latin: touch) and "gen" (Greek: produce) (Nichols 1986: 308). Neither term is dominant in
usage, and, despite their difference in connotation, they are essentially
interchangeable, as they refer to precisely the same chemicals. Users of entactogens say the drugs often produce
feelings of empathy, love, and emotional closeness to others.
Source:
Wikipedia
Residents are
relieved:
Naturally the
accompanying news is that the residents are relieved that the party has been
busted. They allege that it was going one for more than a year and despite
repeated complaints they were not getting any relief! What is more, it seems
these rave parties are a regular nuisance as these go till early morning! The
people caught are freed on a cash bond of Rs.5,000/- and then after a couple of
weeks and the parties begin! Poor residents! I feel for them, more so because I
am an early bird. Right across our bed room in our gated compound is the
society children’s park and as kids and grown ups keep cranking the swings etc.
up to 11 PM some times I get upset. Now think of the people who’d have to
bear with wild music all night!
Bimbos, upcoming
models, call girls and sexual orgies:
The news paper
photographs prominently display the nabbing of skimpily clad bimbos. This would
generate good TRP for television channels. Quite naturally when people take
drugs and alcohol and start craving for intimacy the animal pleasure follows.
Hence, accusations of flesh trade or at least the existence of wild sex as an
integral part of these parties abound.
Was it a real raid or was it a set-up?
Now this question
naturally crops up in our mind because residents say that for last many years
they were complaining and nothing was happening. There was a similar raid three
and half year back and it brought respite only for a few weeks. So if these
nuisances are continued up to early in the morning what is the rationality of
raiding a party at 8? Interestingly up to 8 it’s legal to have loud music
inside hotel premises. Was it meant to embarrass those two star cricket
players? For, they may have suspected that once they are gone the news worthiness
of this raid would drastically decrease. And what about the hurt feeling and
insecurity created in those, who were innocent and detained for a night? The answer
to this would be found in the follow-up to this raid. Though statistics
indicate towards a dangerous portent, let’s be patient and wait and watch.
Our roving morality:
When our concern about
morality is a function of people’s dressing, eating, drinking and all other outward
manifestations then at times we’ve to check our own selves and our measuring
yards. Along with that goes the current fashion, western bashing! Anything that
is supposed to be western, whether in idea or ideal is a scapegoat!
Many politicians, failed
anchors and so-called know-alls take great delight in chastising the current
trends and by default praise some mythical indigenous practices, which may never have existed. What else do you infer from Kirti Azad’s farcical fast and Yeshwant
Sinha’s comment, where he terms IPL as something "against
Indian culture" and further comparing this to a rave party? Isn't it a fact that Indian culture is evolving? If we have things to be proud of, in the past, we also have enough to be ashamed of! Casteism and the practice of 'Sati' are just representative samples. Is it that when Zamindars and kings have "Mujras" and exploit courtesan girls that is ok and if we have highly skilled and highly paid Cheer girls that is not OK? Now that an average indian has become equivalent to the emperors of the yore, that too without blatant exploitation of the masses, is it not something to be celebrated?
Mr Yeshwant Sinha is appalled that semi-naked girls dance after every four is
scored and he feels the only outcome of this could be molestation. The moralist
suggests scrapping of this format of IPL immediately.
While fully sympathizing with the senile outbursts
of a fading politician- Mr Sinha- I feel it’s fit to end this discussion with
the immortal words of the bird of Avon- Shakespeare: “There is nothing either good or bad, but
thinking makes it so”
(The article is not
finished yet and may please be considered as an WIP. Your inputs/ comments
would help making it a well rounded one)
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