When a heinous crime happens anywhere in the world, people respond with a range of emotions from horror to anger, which normally percolate into solid actions so that such acts are not repeated.
Normally.
There is a special place on earth where lives the remnants of a once-glorious civilization where this word simply doesn't exist.
When Nirbhaya was battling for life, this civilization conducted candle lit marches, spewed lot of sound bytes and some tears. Life was out of gear for a few months.
Later on this civilization realized that it might have a tad overreacted... Driven by guilt, hell bent to compensate for the overreaction and just to strike a balance with things closer to heart, it stopped altogether to react to any news of further rapes, sodomy, honour killing, trucks mowing down innocent kids and so on.
See, we got rains, floods, elections, Cricket matches, popular figures getting into and out of prisons, New movie releases, festivals...way too much to juggle...who has time to weap?
The families of victims do. What else they can do?
The indifference and apathy run too deep in this civilization that is capable of Mars Missions and God Particle Research.
When human race climbs a peak and experiences a 'high', it needs ever higher peaks for experiencing further 'highs'.
Replace 'high' with 'pain' and there we are!
So what if a boy slits the throat of a kid in school just to get an extension or a holiday before his exams?
So what if a girl, daughter of a police couple, is gang raped in broad daylight in a market place?
So what if kids waiting on a road side are ploughed down by a speeding truck under foggy conditions?
So what if anybody can decide on who cld sleep that night or killed before?
All perpetrators are sons, brothers, fathers and friends of somebody down here. The increasing disconnect between human beings in this 'digital, ever connected world', is this not the root cause? What are we gonna do about this?
Do I hear 'STFU!. We got bills to pay, ladders to climb, matches and movies to watch...Shit happens everywhere, we are no exception'?
"Forget it Jake, its not China Town; we are in the Valley of Peaks'.
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