So very recently, a German immigrant student was raped in one of the hotels in my city, by one of her Indian friends, with whom she was travelling.
The next day and till a few days after, the local newspapers printed the photographs of a large crowd of people watching from outside the court and police station premises, where the victim had been taken to file her statement of accusation. Another point you could easily observe was that the people comprising the crowd were all men.
I mean, why such sudden interest in this case, Gentlemen? You don't crowd around the police station when a person who has been robbed on the highway goes to file the report....you don't do so when anybody goes to complain about a burglary, or a family fued....Hell, you don't even do so when the nondescript village woman reports a case of a rape....Then why the excessive concern about this particular case? What do you want to see? Why?
One might tell them that if they are that much interested in watching the proceedings, why don't they go and stand outside the consumer courts? Those are courts as well.
Another thing was, while the victim was apparently deliberately made to cover her face, the rapist, who's the son of a high-profile police officer, was not. He looked so ultra-confident from those newspaper clips...like as if he were the one demanding justice...
I don't know if such a thing happens in other parts of the world too, but it is certainly very common in our country. Where does the answer, the reason lie? Is it the sick mentality of most of the society...or is it all deliberate? I think the former is closer to the truth.
And often we console ourselves saying "Yeh India hai...yahan aisa hee hotaa hai..."
'Kay, hotaa hai...but it's high time our society needs to get outta this mindset.
But how do we get others to do that?
The next day and till a few days after, the local newspapers printed the photographs of a large crowd of people watching from outside the court and police station premises, where the victim had been taken to file her statement of accusation. Another point you could easily observe was that the people comprising the crowd were all men.
I mean, why such sudden interest in this case, Gentlemen? You don't crowd around the police station when a person who has been robbed on the highway goes to file the report....you don't do so when anybody goes to complain about a burglary, or a family fued....Hell, you don't even do so when the nondescript village woman reports a case of a rape....Then why the excessive concern about this particular case? What do you want to see? Why?
One might tell them that if they are that much interested in watching the proceedings, why don't they go and stand outside the consumer courts? Those are courts as well.
Another thing was, while the victim was apparently deliberately made to cover her face, the rapist, who's the son of a high-profile police officer, was not. He looked so ultra-confident from those newspaper clips...like as if he were the one demanding justice...
I don't know if such a thing happens in other parts of the world too, but it is certainly very common in our country. Where does the answer, the reason lie? Is it the sick mentality of most of the society...or is it all deliberate? I think the former is closer to the truth.
And often we console ourselves saying "Yeh India hai...yahan aisa hee hotaa hai..."
'Kay, hotaa hai...but it's high time our society needs to get outta this mindset.
But how do we get others to do that?
