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Through the ages, this group has been chipping away at the foundations of civilisation and disseminating filth and sedition in the name of knowledge. So all pervasive has been its reach that practically everyone, including paid up members of the Taliban has allowed the poison to spread undisturbed. No longer, thanks to an upright housewife and brave journalists.

I had no idea what he did! A distraught Mrs Sharma said scant hours after she turned in her husband, a longtime member of this lumpen secret society. Everyday he would leave. Then, there would be strange phone calls at all hours and he would pick up his briefcase and go with no explanations! When he finally took me there, he must have thought I would stay my ears and eyes and still my conscience for the sake of our marriage. But I had a strict religious upbringing and I cannot countenance such actions. I still love him though and I will take him back if he reforms.

 

Mrs Sharma (name changed for obvious reasons) has the advantages of an upbringing that taught her the difference between right and wrong. Faced with the hard choice between losing her husband and provider, or silently acquiescing to his perpetration of social evil, she did not flinch from her duty. How many of us can swear, hand on Gita, that we would pass such a test?

Kudos also to the journalists who independently verified that her accusation had a sound foundation. Now the worms are coming out of an ancient closet. The sheer dimensions of the outrage passes all understanding.

For years, this secret society operated openly and with impunity across the world. It had its own local cells and associations across 5 continents. Members lived by a strictly adminstered code akin to the Omerta of Sicily. Even more pragmatic than Mafioso, they did not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, caste or creed. It was a picture of multi-racial, polysexual amity.

Anyone who passed strict examinations and consented to being bonded labour for a period of upto seven years, would find the world was their oyster. Social standing, assured income, access to prohibited drugs, and pornographic material in all its multihued forms would be yours. Experts would hold forth on perversions. Strangers would strip at your command. They would submit to being probed in private places with exotic tools. They would confess their sexual practises. What more could any sex maniac desire?

Yes, Mrs Sharma will eventually be mentioned in the same breath as Rosa Parkes. Just as that redoubtable Alabama lady refused to change seats on a segregrated bus thereby challenging an unfair system, Mrs Sharma refused to sit silently through a plastic surgeons lecture on Liposuction techniques at a weight control conference. The surgeon had illustrated her lecture with obscene slides of obese private parts a clever pornographers trick.

No doubt there will be an inquiry. Soon the perverts who take refuge under the aegis of that secret society called the medical profession will be exposed for what they are. Those of you with adult reading tastes had better hurry up and buy your Grays Anatomy before that ultimate pornographers manual becomes proscribed.

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First Published: Nov 07 1996 | 12:00 AM IST

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