Did you just try to explain why Revenge is not logical??

We already know that.

Hanging Kasab is just a big "Fu*k you" to the people who sent him here. We know it won't stop them in future, but the fact that we caught one of their men and are making a spectacle of his hanging and to think how that would make his handlers seethe with anger is enough to fill us with with Unholy Glee.

Kasab is just a foot soldier in Ravan's army.

KASAB IS INNOCENT,HE DID NO WRONG!!!!!

Without having any sympathy for either Kasab or Pakistan, we must all remember that one man's terrorist is another man's hero. If we want to draw upon mythology, Ravana was a Brahmin and killing him merely earned Ram the sin of killing a Brahmin. If we want to draw upon more recent phenom, the same arguments being made today to hang Kasab, were made by the British when they hung umpteen numbers of "freedom fighters" in British India -- until, of course, we gained "freedom" when we started glorifying a "select few" of the same "terrorists" to suit the purposes of our new masters, the by-and-large unashamedly corrupt and evil class of today's "neta"s.

Until we make a real effort to understand and neutralize the grievances fueling sentiments like Kasab's, and disable the infrastructure that allow such acts to be committed, nothing will change. That way, I agree with Anshul in his assessment. However, humans, by-and-large, are defined by the characteristic that self-righteous egos supersede rational thought -- just look through the pages of recorded history all the way back to Egypt. Hence, I don't have much hope, honestly speaking, that we'll actually make any progress in tackling the real issues.

When the legal proccedings are on, we may not comment on the accused facing trial. It is irresponsible.

The terrorists feed on the attention that their acts generate. We are only fueling their enthusiasm, if anything that is. These people don't follow any rational path. They are inhuman, they are mad. They exult in feeling powerful. And this they achieve every time they successfully carry out an act of terror. Kasab is a nobody in their 'army'. He should by all means be given the worst punishment possible, the most painful of deaths, not something as fast as death by hanging. However, I also believe that putting him to death will not even ruffle the feathers of the forces that are still at large.

By comparing Kasab with Ravan , you are insulting Ravan. Students of Ramayan know that Ravan was a learned person and a devotee of Shiva. He had obtained a boon from Shiva that only Shiva would be able to kill him, and he succeeded in this.Kasab is going to be hanged by an ordinary noose man.

Kasab has a good prospect of becoming a politician in India should he not given a death penalty. He can fight an election from a minority province.

Why should Kasab be hanged?

Not to prove to the world that Indians can fight back; the world already knows that...

Not to take pride in taking revenge. Indians have never done that, either with Mahmood of Ghazni, or the imperial rulers from England..

Not to scare away the future 'soldiers aginst humanity'. They least bother about it...

Not to make an average Indian happy. It does not bring about any significant change in his life...

He should be hanged just for the one reason that he was responsible for the death of more than 150 people and was proved guilty for murder, among other things.

In India, we award death for rape and murder; we hang those who are found to be spying against our nation; murder of 150 people is not a small offence, the penalty which we should think and discuss and wait for so much..

There have been judgements where convicts were prosecuted seperately for each individual offence and were awarded a cumulative jail term... Hanging to death once and for all is not difficult. And, also it is closer to humanity than awarding him a 150 life sentences.. :)

There is no point of revenge or patriotism here. It is just the delivery of justice to the State..

Believe me Ravan was a good person..

Blog was very good espically when you mentioned about the slain CRPF jawans, but i didnt get what exactly you wanted to express,.. kasab should be hanged no doubt and it will not be publicly done is also true,but what next I agree with on of comment above that he is just a pawn the real king is still out there and is planning for the next strike, ok finish these kasab story and concentrate on real matters like illiteracy i specifically mentioned literacy because Education is the best defense of a nation , no developed nations are fighting war they are developing new hi tech weapons and selling it to nations like India and pakistan we should concentrate on these matters these type of politics played by develop nation will come into light only if WE THE PEOPLE are capable enough to see these so literacy is one of the most basic thing which our nation need currently not any Hi tech Weapons of Mass Destruction.............

usse abhi tuk kyuu rakh rakha hai ..aise logo ko to dekhte hi "GOLI" maar deni chaiye ...kyuun sarkaar apna paisa barbaad kar rahi hai....

An excellant write-up. The mob psychology is going in full throttle chanting " Kill him!!!Kill him!!!!"

WHY KASAB SHOULD NOT BE HANGED?????
DID india hanged the butcher of gujrat(mr.modi)who is responsible to kill over thousend muslims including womens and small childrens.
DID india hanged the culprits,who are responsible to kill thousends of innocent sikhs across india.
DID india hanged anybody from his crupt army officers,who are responsible to rape and murder of over 75000.innocent kashmiris.
ANSWER IS NO.THEN WHY HANGE
KASAB??????
Hanging kasab will make him a hero.Trade kasab with indian raw agents,who are rotting in pakistani jails.

Sunday you said it right! Its just the justice to India that haning him. But we all have to united against these blody Terrorists who are groomed in Pakistan. If government doesn't take any action against Pakistan they will have it from Indians. Our patience testing is over now. I like to give one suggestion to our own government that don't go with what America says grow up now and wake up its high time otherwise you cannot even imagine what Inian people will do. One suggestion to Pakistan is stop playing this blood game you will vanish from world Map.
I requst TimeofIndia please publish my comment about the sentiment about my nation

I do not see the difference between Blogger and Kasab when it comes to the product of ideology.It was Ravana who protected poor peasants wives, daughters and their cows from Munis,Pundits and Brahmins
who were feasting on their cows and raping their wives and daughters in the name of God. Rama, instead of abolishing, embraced Caste system. Brahmins, pundits and munis needed leader to propagate their ideology. Your comparison indicates me that you are also the product of ideology which has manage to destroy the core Hinduism.

Why dont we compare Karab with a character in Muslim Myth's and stories or even Christain Bible Myth's..why only Raavana....

Before Hanging Kasab, Check with Netas like Mulayam/ Laloo/Digvijay Singh/ Gulam Nabi Azaad and many more.
May be they would like to see him alive, after all Hanging Kasab may affect their vote banks.

There are many Anti- nationalists who are sentenced by the Hon. Supreme Court but still to be Hanged and waiting to be bargained( Barter System).

In my opinion, there should be a public show of such a person all over the country with a clear message," How the Country would like to deal with such Messangers of Islamic Jihad".
Pakistan of course will not bow down and will continue to increase her Jihadi activities but it will certainly affect Indians who are indulged in Jihadi Activities.
Regards.

Ravana was not a a cwoard to strike at innocents.pls do denounce ravana

Absolutely wonderfully written. In fact I had anticipated your post and was looking forward to it.

But we need to get rid of this guy, not cause it will help us to stop other terrorists, but the same thing that you said, in fear of Kandahar - II, at least that.
Secondly we need to make it look foolish for him to join these organisations, so that he isnt made a martyr amongst people who use a sewage canal as a swimming pool as is reported to have been the case from his village.
We had a good chance to make an example out of him. Hope we make a good example. If we make his death heroic, then may be next terrorists would be praying, 'Jannat bulane se pehle, EK baar Mumbai police se pakadwa de'

Beyond that we comfortably forget that his handlers are safe and sound plotting the next attack. We cannot consider to have moved much if they are let free.
Why Hafeez's or Lakhvi's, we couldnt even nail the duo caught in this case. They are acquitted and signs are that their cases wont be appealed against in higher courts.
If this is the condition of our legal retribution to ppl caught attacking us, then we could be fooling none but ourselves in rejoicing about this being as a victory over terror.
Imagine if Hawaldar Ombale had cared for his life and had killed Kasab when Kasab attacked him. No Lakhvi's or Hafeez's name would have ever been out.
Saying that I guess we achieved only that much, getting their names out, nothing more. Kasab's death was a surety once he pulled that trigger at CST. How he dies is of not much consequence in the larger context of fight against terror.

First of all very stupid title!!! Who is Ram btw? OK eve if we have to make a Ram Ravana story out of it I guess Kasab is just a soldier in Ravana's army. Don't be too happy guys, the big Boss of such people and rest of the army is till there. Still I would love to congratulate our judiciary for this not too slow trial and the verdict!!! I hope to hear something good about the parliament attack case too.

Will you call a spade a spade?Kasab argued that he is a "look-like man"of the one in published photo.Did we produce him for Narco Test? Somedays ago in India,a "criminal" was compensated for he was imprisoned unjustifiably twentyone years.Here our police innocents of other states and force to confess by offer or torture.Police will be under pressure to arrest the guilty within stipulated time.Even if thousand criminals escape one innocent shall be punished.This is our view.Public emotional words cannot be the judgement.

Or we can keep him alive till a Kandahar 2 happens and then shoot him instead of returning him.
Except that no one needs him back on the other side either.

I guess you got the name wrong.It would be that the modern day Mohammed(notRavan),himself hiding in fakistan
who has sent his foot solders trained and equiped with AK47 aimed at people who are enjoying in hotels, restaurants, bars,going about their daily busines on railways.The culprit is fakistan that need to be annihilated for the sake of humanity.Hang him or not you will have more Kasabs coming from there. Westerners cant annihilated it since they came with their own agenda and are frightened of infiltrators amongst them as you saw on 3April2010 in New york Times Square where the culprit whose origin is fakistan and ran off to fakistan.Ranjit Singh and Hari Singh Nallua did it when they ruled in Khandhar and Kabul,and now INDIANS MUST DO IT.MANMOHAN SINGH CAN BE TODAYS RANJIT SINGH?

Will hanging kasab change anything?Every day innocents loose lives fighting for india and because they are indians in kashmir and naxal affected areas...these incidents are on par with what happened on 26/11.Kasab should have been punished eons ago and in way it sets an example.As indians 1 thing that we all can be proud of is the consistency of the nations political and judicial system.They never fail to consistently FAIL the trust and faith of the citizens.Walk out of your house and treat each day as your last,god forbid if something bad do happen then rest assured our govt will make sure that they will let the culprits(who probably has the support of most of the politicians who would sell the nation and what not to fill their belly) slip and if by some divine intervention they are caught will be taken good care using the taxpayers money.Ask the govt for water, basic infra or for aids you will get a boot on your face.Kill innocents and mock the nation you will get Z class security,good food and a doc on 24 hrs standby.Welcome to the INDIA of the 21st century.

www.poemhunter.com/dr-yogesh-sharma/ Sir I fully agree with your views. We through out the year play as if in Ramlila and do nothing. In an excellent manner you have presented all the contradictions.

www.poemhunter.com/dr-yogesh-sharma/ Sir you have very rightly has said that India is a typically nation who has deep rooted faith in dramas and farce and try to run away from real issues. Even our leader, intellectuals, right activists, media, reformer etc. all are of this type of escapist tendencies. Now it is Kasab 'the killing machine', before that it was money laundering game of IPL. In this manner Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin, Sania-Shoiab marriage drama, Mayapuri kobalt case, Sharukh Khan stripping case at USA airport case, Amir Khan 3 idiot drama, Rahul-Maya dalit love affair, Baba-Father-Maulvi sex escapades etc. etc. list can be pulled up to any extend. Apart from this secularism, socialism and quota war is a permanent drama of absurd. On the contrary we never pay attention to serious and important issues. Islamic and Naxal terrorism, farmers and students' suicide, water and electricity shortage, drought and flood, four crores pending case in courts, corruption, unemployment, law and order situation, etc. are such serious and important problems for we hardly pay any attention. There is every possibility that the Kasb case will go Afzal Guru way and he will another celebrity like Prof. Geelani of Parliament attack fame or Madani Coimbatore bomb blat fame. After the judgement is delivered the secular human right hawks will be active for Kasab in the name of human right and secularism and fight for his canonization. In Kashmir, in the Punjab, in North-Eastern states, In Naxal terrorism lakh of people have been killed but baring a few, hardly any terrorist has been punished. In the name of human right, secularism, healing touch, rehabilitation all such criminals have been rewarded with fat economic packages. After some noise and fury we will again go is search of another Shonia or Sharukh-Amir-Kasb farse. You are very right Sir we will keep on playing Ramlila with new characters and keep on indulge in high talk and people keep on butchered as on 26/11.

Dear Writer

It was an interesting piece of article u wrote which actually ticked my brain and made me reconsider to change my stance that he should be hanged publically to iving him a loner death- the mature way. Few moments into that thought and i began to feel it is bullshit... sorry to be rude if i am but it seems that u are being too apathetic towards the patriotic sentiment. We have been a acountry of righteousness at large. Y go to raavan for that matter, take Jessica Lal case.. havnt the responsible and caring citizens stood places to demand justice and fair trial to deceased girl.

I think u have been pragmatic about things and its a good approach but there are situations where u need to be emotional and heart headed not head led.. The attack happesns to be heart headed as what htye have killed is not just citizens but our right to live peacefully. Your pragmatism and through undertsanding would surely agree it has been the biggest ever attack and not only that they literally got into our house to kill us. This time the water has crossed not just the head but the self respect of Indian citizens, something worth retailiating for, fighting for. You must have seen a 4-5 year old child when denied something or scolded too loudly makes an angry face with tears swelled up in his eyes. The child even though hurt and lonely tries to fight back to save the last bit of self esteem even at his age.

It seems very logical and practical to me that people want him publically hanged and treating him brutally which may not be as hard for him as he is prepared, not the other terrorist as they would want him dead long back too but its for us. We have cried our tears, felt the fear.. its time to fight back now. It shall give me inner peace to see him hanged that i lost three nights sleep coz of him n others although i didnt lose anyone dear in the attack but i felt for those trapped, suffered and the families bearing the loss. HE SHOULD BE HANGED PUBLICALLY

You are accusing people for making Kasab a hero ... aren't you doing the same by posting this article with few good words and an erratic thought ?? I know its ur job n u get money and recognition for all this.

All I want to say is if u really feel the same way as u've expressed in ur article .. stop writing articles on Kasab ..

Chaturvedi puts an unfortunate spin on 26/11 by casting a real and horrific event in religious and mythological terms. Such arguments provide fodder for the religionists (not the devout), pitting them unnecessarily against secularists.
Clever but not productive and NOT ETHICAL. Think of the consequences to the Greater Collective Good -- BEFORE you write.

i wanted him to be punished..

but i really cant understand how we indians can ask to hang him, especially after seeing his court room video on 6th may.

i am 22 myself. if i hadnt got the right corrections in the right time, i, or anyone of u there, could have gone in the same way of kasab.

all i could see was a young guy, standing helpless in front of a death sentence.
he was just shattered.

pls guys, have a heart. support him. he is just an instrument, not a the master behing attacks. let him get a life sentence or harsh other punishments.
but not death pls...

he is just 22. he was brought up surrounded by 'jihad'ians, give him a chance.. give him his life..

by killing him , no martyrs can come back to life (rest in peace) nor would their souls be satisfied, because kasab is just an instrument and not the master brain.

I think kasab should be fed on Biriyani daily and all comforts should be given to him so that his physique becomes similar to that of "Gabbar Singh".Already he has got all the remaining characters of this "villain of yesteryears" and he can think of getting lucrative offers for the role of villain especially from Bollywood and elsewhere in the years to come if things materialize.Better if Bollywood is able to utilize him for potential mega hits.

Dear Anshul,
It was really heartening to see that our intellectual class, which in recent times comprises solely of people whose ideas can be put to writing and can be widely circulated and columnists like your being the biggest subset of it, is working so diligently to put the average Indian mindset out of the neanderthal age, pelting stones at the accused etcetera. However, what appals me the most is your completely volte faced approach adopted in the blog dealing with the maoists in which you emphasize that there should be no legal privilages for the enemies of the state. What happened? Did the Dantewada bus explosion rocked your armchair a little so that a little grey cells got developed due to the unusual brain activity.