I am one of those people, who couldn't understand the real reason why so many rapes happen in India's Capital. So I started reading. Reading a lot, as to what kind of upbringing/mentality creates a systematic spawning of criminals. Most of the crimes against women.
Of all my readings this is the most comprehensive and shocking story, I've ever read.
Excerpts:
Of all my readings this is the most comprehensive and shocking story, I've ever read.
Excerpts:
"Sample this. On 8 December 2010, in the little known village of Pillu Kheda in Jind district, a 13-year-old girl was abducted by four boys, raped and left by the roadside. The girl somehow managed to crawl to a brick kiln for help, only to be raped again by two workers there. When she was finally let go in the evening, an autorickshaw driver offered to give her a lift, only to rape her again and dump her on the same road. Left for dead and crying for help, the young teen was picked up by a truck driver and his aide, who — not surprisingly by now — raped her repeatedly for nine days. The police eventually found the girl at a woman’s house in Panipat after her father had filed a missing complaint.
The administration and police keep mum because they are always under political pressure. Everybody in Gohana (a town in haryana) is politically connected with some big-shot politician. Support from the khaps further boosts their morale. Everybody believes here that they can easily get away after raping a woman. In most cases, the accused forces the victim to compromise and keep her mouth shut.
Although Gohana DSP Yashpal Khatana rubbishes all these charges, what he offers as an explanation for the frequency of rapes is deeply disturbing. “Girls are easily influenced these days,” says the DSP. “They wear western clothes, so the number of gangrapes is increasing here.” The chowmein argument somehow begins to make sense now. After all, this is one of the keepers of law talking."
Even the chowmein argument can't be any more ridiculous and absurd than this. Cops who raped the victim (who was earlier gang-raped) are going to investigate that case.
I tried to think about various root causes of this animal behavior, I found this. This gave such a good insight as to what happens in Delhi day-in and day-out.
One excerpt summed up well from that link, that we are dealing with animals here.
"I’m angrier when I read scholarly articles about civil society, better governance and societal and infrastructural reforms. I read words like five years and “long term” and seethe. Of course one wants to live in a civil society that believes in redemption and the rehabilitation of its worst members but you have no bloody idea what you’re dealing with in Delhi. These are men who operate on an animal instinct. You need a brutal deterrent, employed continuously and consistently in the short term to let them know we mean business. When you’re cornered by a wolf snarling and baring its fangs do you lecture it on the sanctity of life? No, you react. If I could come face to face with these brave men of Delhi who tormented me, I’d shoot them between the eyes. Even today, if a man stares at me a moment longer than necessary I have this visceral urge to rip his eyes out."
One possible explanation to the cause of these crimes is that these men want to dominate and when they cannot, they try to use their strength or it is just some social stigma they think they have to overcome at any cost. This seems to suggest that. Other possible explanation could be they are either hysteric of some sort or just psychologically ill.
I could only think of one possible solution. For the future generations, educational system needs to impart some wisdom. But for the current generations, we are just dealing with wild animals which are out of control. They just need to be tamed, in whatever way possible.
