A different kind of massage
A UK based Shillongites was appalled at the fact that David Lyngdoh the legendary serial molester called Bah Jyllud which literally translated means “massage man,” actually entered her maid’s home and managed to molest her and even get violent but escaped without her being able to pin him down.
She called this paper to ask that something be done about this pervert.
Keeping aside the fear psychosis that has gripped residents of the State following the escapades of David Lyngdoh who managed to get bail each time he is arrested, we can look at the other facet of the evolution of Shillong’s very own Charles Shobraj, the mastermind who manages to give law a slip every single time!
Well the police has their own flaws revealed when one looks into the fact that a person previously booked under MPDA roams about after securing bail and wreaks havoc.
If only the smart ‘massage man’ used his skills of entrepreneurship, he could do so much better and even make a name for himself as a private detective. He definitely is one up on the police. And this State deos need a private detective agency! To top it all here is a criminal who is also tech savvy and who updates his resume online and promotes his skills openly.
What’s more interesting is that on the one hand we have a section of the society harassed by his wrongdoings and another section that are his followers, liking his page and egging him on so that they know his progress in real time! Is this society now in support of such perverts?
If so isn’t there something seriously wrong with our morals? For psychiatrists, David Lyngdoh is a classic case to be studied but so too are his followers. The fact that even young women visit this sexual perverts page and like it tells us that something is radically wrong with our youth!
This also shows that many of us who have not experienced the creepy, sleazy touch of David Lyngdoh are least bothered about his wrong doings and even acknowledge the fact that here is one guy, howsoever imbalanced who has managed to give the cops a slip! A sort of perverse pleasure is there is one!
Policemen inhaling dust
Beautification work happens everywhere, all the time in Meghalaya. Roads are repaired annually because by the next monsoons they are washed away, despite the Right to information activists working overtime.
The huge overhaul happening in Laitumkhrah and the unavoidable digging alongside the main road is raising a lot of dust.
While pedestrians get only a passing whiff of the dust and yet complain of allergies and come down with dust-induced colds and flu, it is the poor traffic policeman who bears the brunt of this road repair work.
The traffic policeman is in any case exposed to diesel and petrol fumes for five or six hours at a stretch. Add to this the dust pollution and you have a cocktail of allergens queering up his respiratory tract. Then there are traffic cops standing along the Guwahati-Shillong road who also suffer the same plight.
It will get worse once the winds start blowing the dust right inside their orifices. But does anyone care? Can traffic cops not be given face masks to wear so that some of the dust and fumes are arrested in those masks? Don’t the top officials of the police hierarchy see this and don’t they feel for their colleagues? Although it’s an unheard of thing for people to campaign on behalf of the police who in any case are a demonised lot (damn if you do, damned if you don’t) but Shillong Jottings feels that Government should give the traffic police protective gear and also allow them a compulsory health check up every six months.
That would at least reduce their sense of frustration and hopelessness and make them feel like decent human beings. Shillong’s traffic would go awry if not for these traffic directors. Is the Home Minister listening?
The highway is a garbage bin
Trucks loaded with liquor cartons dump all of it along the Shillong-Guwahati road along Mawiong. Indeed the entire stretch has become a garbage dumping ground. So tourists are welcomed into this garbage city from a reasonable distance to prepare them for the real thing in Shillong city. Garbage is our biggest challenge but neither citizens nor the Government seem to have any answer. Who knows what will happen twenty years hence! Perhaps we will be living and building on garbage heaps! Not a very attractive or healthy proposition for a hill station once acclaimed as Scotland of the East!