The brutal rape of a five year old child in Delhi, a few days ago, has again come to haunt our collective psyche. The perpetrator cannot be a normal person for sure, he has to be mentally sick. And therein arises my fundamental doubt, are we a country of mentally sick people?
What's happening then? Are we focused on the moral improvement of the Indian people? Ethics and a feeling of nationalism - being an Indian first and always, with all other affiliations receding to the background - among its people go a long way towards the strength of any nation and we need to lay emphasis on this aspect while striving for economic betterment or improving the GDP index. To be stressing only on the economics, giving the moral growth the go by, does not augur well for the future as we'd only have uncouth and overbearing citizens, ever ready to exercise their 'money might'!
Coming back to the Delhi incident, there has been a nagging doubt deep within me. Would it have taken place had the Nirbhaya case been tried in the normal way and not as it's being done in camera now? The details of the shenanigans of those beasts, screaming as headlines, would have prevented potential rapists!
The clumsiness of the police and the highhandedness in their moments of confusion makes me wonder as to whether we're being reduced to revisiting the same drama, again and again.
Tailpiece.
That poor child is gonna be in perpetual trauma if she survives the ordeal. And that pains and saddens me. I hang my head in shame, little one, we've let you down......collectively, yet again!
What's happening then? Are we focused on the moral improvement of the Indian people? Ethics and a feeling of nationalism - being an Indian first and always, with all other affiliations receding to the background - among its people go a long way towards the strength of any nation and we need to lay emphasis on this aspect while striving for economic betterment or improving the GDP index. To be stressing only on the economics, giving the moral growth the go by, does not augur well for the future as we'd only have uncouth and overbearing citizens, ever ready to exercise their 'money might'!
Coming back to the Delhi incident, there has been a nagging doubt deep within me. Would it have taken place had the Nirbhaya case been tried in the normal way and not as it's being done in camera now? The details of the shenanigans of those beasts, screaming as headlines, would have prevented potential rapists!
The clumsiness of the police and the highhandedness in their moments of confusion makes me wonder as to whether we're being reduced to revisiting the same drama, again and again.
Tailpiece.
That poor child is gonna be in perpetual trauma if she survives the ordeal. And that pains and saddens me. I hang my head in shame, little one, we've let you down......collectively, yet again!
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