Soni Sori, You're A Gun!

Soni Sori was a mother of 3 children.

Soni Sori taught at an Adivasi school in Sameli gaon, Dantewada,  in south Bastar.

Soni Sori was alleged to be a Naxal conduit, collecting ‘protection money’ on their behalf from mining corporations operating in the area.

Soni Sori was arrested in Delhi in Oct ’11, by Crime Branch, Delhi Police acting on a request from Chhattisgarh Police. A request. How sweet, how considerate!

Soni Sori told the courts that she feared for her safety in the custody of Chhattisgarh Police. She was transferred to them in Dantewada, nevertheless.

Soni Sori had stones pushed inside her during interrogation; in the vagina and the rectum, one after the other till they could push no more. In addition to the usual stripping, assault, electric shocks; that’s par for the course.

Soni Sori was acquitted of 6 out of 8 charges against her by Apr ’13 for lack of evidence. An interim bail was granted in Nov ’13.

Soni Sori’s head and back injuries were caused by a slip and fall in the bathroom, the Chhattisgarh Police told the judiciary. They bought it.


The cops tried to establish that Soni Sori was in psychiatric trouble to discredit her complains of vicious torture and abuse. They were checked in their tracks by vigorous action of NHRC and NCW.

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For a start, let us all come together and sing ‘Saare jahaan se achhaa’,

Saare jahaan se achhaa,                                                                                                

Hindustaan hamara hamara..

Aren't we all be proud of our great nation and its secular, socialist, democratic values? All the endorsement is on Primetime television.

It’s poignant what happened to Soni Sori, shocking even. But 34 years of sticking around in the Republic has prepared me to absorb such blows. An ‘oxygen-deficient’ stunned for a couple of hours, subdued for another day or two and on with life. I was not doing too poorly but this little nugget upset the cart,

The officer under whose watch this happened, Dantewada SP, Ankit Garg was awarded a Gallantry medal by the President of India. A gallantry medal from The President of India to a senior cop in whose custody 5 men held a woman down and pushed stones inside her.

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Naxal conduit or not, what kind of a man does that and goes on to accept a gallantry award for it? Can it be tied to a behavioral profile?

Is it fair to expect precursors like cruelty towards animals and bed-wetting into early teens? Is he a psychopath or a hyper-obedient imbecile of the ‘Sir, Yes Sir’ kind? Did he hum ‘Nanha-munna rahi hoon’ to himself as a kid, I wonder?

Nanha-munna rahi hoon, desh ka sipaahi hoon,
bolo mere sang Jai Hind, Jai Hind, Jai Hind..                                                                               

Jai Hind, Jai Hind.

Does he make love to his wife? Does he go down on her? Does he tenderly wash his daughter, if there’s one, after a pee? And is he not a raging schizophrenic if he can do that and go to work and push stones up another woman’s privates?

Or heavens forbid, did I get it all wrong? Maybe he knew adivasis as tough, outdoorsy people and their ‘one with nature’ lifestyle. So he arranged a rock dildo for Soni Sori. Maybe he was only trying to ‘tickle’ her; like uncles who ‘tickle’ young nieces.

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Okay now, enough of this sentimentalism! Let’s talk numbers young man.

Do you know how much is the bauxite in Orissa’s forests worth? Just the bauxite in Orissa’s forests alone. Should you not care? We need it for our anti-Pak missiles and swanky BMWs; every yuppy seems to want one these days. They’re more sought after than Nirvana.

(Buddha is struggling to maintain noble silence.)

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Technologists are offering solutions to amplify rainforest-cover manifold using cutting-edge video editing and replication software. Sales packs come in categories of 100nX and 1000nX, with further gradations.

‘We gained extensive experience during M’s campaign. We’re very sure of the value we are offering. We used crane-mounted cameras then. For forest’s raw footage, we will mount them on choppers and take them for a spin.’ They say with a confident, self-assured smile.

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Soni Sori contested the 2014 General Elections from Bastar on an Aam Aadmi Party ticket.

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