Over the last few weeks, India has been gripped by two very disheartening and unpleasant events.
One has been on the cricket field (the recent debacles against England), the other has been on the streets of the National Capital.
I have lived in Noida and Delhi pretty much all my life, and I am ashamed to state that this is not the only incident. We have had gruesome, morbid, sickening reports of suchlike earlier too.
But perhaps what has got even the typically immune, impervious NCRite seething and agitated now, is the gross callousness and contempt with which such a case has been handled.
I believe there is only so much a cop can do - such as were we expecting, with the benefit of hindsight - that the cops should have been peeping into every moving bus?
Certainly not, if the screams of the unfortunate victim would have been scuffled by those hooligans, who were filled with nothing but lust all over themselves.
However, what was possible, was prompt action - what was possible was an exemplary punishment that wold forbid any such sick mind to think twice, thrice, heck even a zillion times before even having the gall to commit such a reprehensible act.
And this is where the problem lies - there have been far too many cases which have been found wanting for timely action, and where even if the culprits have been apprehended, they have begun to roam free again though bail, while the victims are maimed for life.
Another reason why people are fuming is because given the events of this case, many people believe that it could easily have been them.
9-9.30 is not an unearthly hour, not was the woman in any way in 'unsafe' territory, using public transport in the heart of the nation's capital. Which is why, the depravity of the act has hit even harder.
On the other hand, there is the small matter - I had written earlier about how India was as invincible as England and Australia have been in their dens (if not more). Well, 2004 has happened again.
Just as Australia took the series away in '04, we have had a walloping after Ahmedabad, and it's England now, who have turned the corner, and been deserving winners.
Well done, England!
However, I have hopes that the Indian fan will get more reason for cheer than doom in the coming years, as the team prepares itself for life without its Ram, Laxman, Bharat...I just hope this ushers in a new Ramayana, not a Mahabharata!!
Happy 2013 in advance!!
One has been on the cricket field (the recent debacles against England), the other has been on the streets of the National Capital.
I have lived in Noida and Delhi pretty much all my life, and I am ashamed to state that this is not the only incident. We have had gruesome, morbid, sickening reports of suchlike earlier too.
But perhaps what has got even the typically immune, impervious NCRite seething and agitated now, is the gross callousness and contempt with which such a case has been handled.
I believe there is only so much a cop can do - such as were we expecting, with the benefit of hindsight - that the cops should have been peeping into every moving bus?
Certainly not, if the screams of the unfortunate victim would have been scuffled by those hooligans, who were filled with nothing but lust all over themselves.
However, what was possible, was prompt action - what was possible was an exemplary punishment that wold forbid any such sick mind to think twice, thrice, heck even a zillion times before even having the gall to commit such a reprehensible act.
And this is where the problem lies - there have been far too many cases which have been found wanting for timely action, and where even if the culprits have been apprehended, they have begun to roam free again though bail, while the victims are maimed for life.
Another reason why people are fuming is because given the events of this case, many people believe that it could easily have been them.
9-9.30 is not an unearthly hour, not was the woman in any way in 'unsafe' territory, using public transport in the heart of the nation's capital. Which is why, the depravity of the act has hit even harder.
On the other hand, there is the small matter - I had written earlier about how India was as invincible as England and Australia have been in their dens (if not more). Well, 2004 has happened again.
Just as Australia took the series away in '04, we have had a walloping after Ahmedabad, and it's England now, who have turned the corner, and been deserving winners.
Well done, England!
However, I have hopes that the Indian fan will get more reason for cheer than doom in the coming years, as the team prepares itself for life without its Ram, Laxman, Bharat...I just hope this ushers in a new Ramayana, not a Mahabharata!!
Happy 2013 in advance!!
