It makes me hate other Indians though. Admit there's a problem, and work to fix it. Don't just brush it to the side and pretend it's not a big deal if you ignore it. All that's doing is putting a bandage on an open sore which is going to fester and make it harder to fix down the line.
You must be crazy. Its not like you do git pull india --rebase and everything's hunky dory from then on. Its 1.2 billion people. Beyond a certain threshold, systems are essentially unfixable. India has crossed that threshold a long, long time ago. You'd have a better chance if you just ran away & started a new community elsewhere - which is why there are little-indias everywhere - in seattle, silicon valley, new jersey, queens, austin,...
Here's a list of top 20 little-indias:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_American#U.S._metropolit...
All those little-indias are doing fine. Its the Big-india that has issues.
> Beyond a certain threshold, systems are essentially unfixable.
What a sad belief to hold, especially in the light of agents of such great change as Gandhi, Rosa Parks etc. Any system can be changed with the right impetus, although that's unlikely to happen soon in India. But things can't keep going as they are in the long run, it's just not a sustainable pattern for dense urban environments.
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
"Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues." - Bhagavad Gita
I see a lot of blaming the "poor and uneducated masses" of India, but I see very little introspection about the massive wealth and educational disparities that the supposedly wise and benevolent wealthy and educated minority benefit from.
It's a very difficult problem to solve here in India.
Sure, you can have proper laws to handle it - but what do you do about the lacking enforcement?
If you have proper enforcement - what do you do about the corrupt courts?
Even if corruption is fixed - how do you tackle scaling with dealing with these issues?
If we had all that working - who teaches these people to be respectful of personal rights?
In my opinion, this rape problem isn't THE problem, but merely a symptom of a much larger set of more important problems. I don't like these articles because they hardly do anything to bring to light what I think are huge structural problems that need to be fixed that allow rape to be a non-issue. I truly believe that fixing all the fundamental issues is the correct way to fix the country.
