Re: [nukkad] -Rape of 12-year-old homeless girl in local train outrages Mumbai

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 It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. 
-Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)
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So it happened on Aug 14. Reported at nukkad on Aug 20, while
members were busy discussing alcohol, promiscuity, nicknames,
muslim godesses, suicide, techy, word meaning.

kirankumar johare wrote:
> 
> Five commuters in Mumbai had their own answer. They did nothing.
> 
> It's a story that has angered and disgusted millions across the
country especially after one of the commuters described the
entire experience in a newspaper article.

Had the reporter not have witnessed it, it would not have become
public knowledge. Wonder how many such incidences are going
unreported.

> "They could have shouted - at the most they would have got
involved in a fight. There were three of them, they could have
averted this incident. It is not possible to post a constable in
every compartment," said Suresh Bhalekar of the Borivali
Divisional Railway Police.

I agree to his view. Citizens have to rise up to the occassion
instead of waiting government to do everything.

> Burdened with our middle-class sensibilities, we remained silent," said Mishra.

I myself am a middle class person. I don't know what
sensibilities he is talking about.

> 1.Where Is our SOUL? MIND? BRAIN? Is it Dead?

For those witnesses, it certainly is dead. Also for several
indians who think like them and behave cowardly like them.

> 2.Are we becoming just working machines?

Those persons have.
The ensuing nation wide outrage does suggest that most of the
nation still has a conscience.

> 3.What your Soul says?

I would have intervened to prevent it whatever could have
befallen upon me.

I think even if one of them had intervened, others would also
have got over their coma and come forward.

I had a very high opinion of mumbai-ites, the way they form
queues at bus stand, the way they assert their rights at most of
the places. Now I have to re-appraise them.

-Rawat


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