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Originally Posted by oompa loompa
She passed away in a hospital in Singapore, here's the article : http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/wo...elhi.html?_r=0
I'm an Indian, and to be quite honest, I'm not sure what to think about all of this ( apart from the obvious disgust and shock when I heard about this). Not sure where the problem really is or how to fix it. Not sure if all of the violence and demand for capital punishment will do good. ( There were widespread protests throughout the country for more stringent laws, but also for things like asking the Delhi CM to resign, which turned quite violent ) . Not sure if all the top-down corruption, and apathy to violence and poverty will ever change. It's like our whole society is.. rotting, there's no other word for it.
The way our culture treats women is nothing short of appalling, just the other day I was having a conversation with my landlord (a student from Delhi University, apparently one of the best institutions in the country), about how it's important for women in his family to stay at home to take care of kids, and how its (I quote) impossible for a woman to take care of her looks, be good at sports, and be intelligent. This attitude permeates into our society really deeply : here are a couple of related articles anyone who's interested in the story:
http://www.times24.in/tehelka-sting-...es-will-go-on/
http://www.firstpost.com/living/from...ed-269957.html
: From a Tehelka article (which seems to have been taken down from their website) titled : The Rapes will Go On
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/de...b-s-son-310259 : This is an article on a statement made by the son of the President of India (who has conveniently become an MP), about how the protesting women are 'painted and dented'. |
1. You start off with the police force. Fire the old farts and hire more young people.
2. hire more outsiders to train the new police force. Don't let the old farts anywhere near the new recruits to pass on their institutional knowledge.
3. Start replacing the judges.
4. pass real laws on Rape with real punishments.
5. The most important and probably hardest, start a grassroots movement to change the mindset and culture in India regarding women. It will takes years, decade and maybe even 1 or 2 generations.