Plunder, Murder And Rape…
Last night I read till 2am, in spite of an early morning meet with a prospective client. The book titled ‘The World’s Most Evil Men’ was engrossing, but the contents completely grossed me out. The first chapter was a graphic description of Idi Amin’s reign of terror in central Africa. The atrocities unleashed by this ruthless dictator on millions of unsuspecting subjects, left me bilious with disgust and I wanted to throw up every morsel I had eaten during the course of the day.
Other despots like Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Ivan The Terrible and Hitler are also chronicled with much precision. The next time I address another by any of these euphemisms I will cringe and refrain from such careless use of words. Men, women and children were tortured in inhumane ways, ways which are too shocking to write about at the hands of these despots.
There was no rhyme or reason for these gruesome murders. They were mere sport for ruthless dictotors with sadistic appetites. These eras of human existence were fraught with only 2 types of people, the oppressors and the oppressed. There was no in-between. People were either born into the lap of luxury or the depths of poverty and their death was most likely to be a murder and at best a suicide.
Dictators originated from every corner of the earth…except India. There was no Indian tyrant with such an exhaustive penchant for mass murder, worthy of mention in this journal ( though our country is not devoid of incidents). But there has never been an era where homicide became the right of another and was condoned by the law of the land.
My friends ask me why I am reading this book, if the aftermath of my new-found knowldge is so unpleasant. Because one needs to know about the ‘real’ issues which make one’s own ‘emotional’ upheavals pale in significance. They seem irrelevant as compared to the horrific lives and even more horrific deaths experienced by innocent people of yore.
Darrrrling !
India has one now, he is popularly known by the name of Narendra Modi. An incident which has become hogwash in the eye of the general public. He is also known as Emperor Nero. If India was out of that list of evil dictators. The new edition could have one