A woman is raped in the Indian capital every 24 hours and, in an overwhelming majority of cases registered by police in the last six months, the rapists were known to the victims.
So why are there so many rapes in Indian National Capital, is a question that haunts me quite often. It is not that men in Delhi have this uncontrollable libido, nor it is the case that the police here is too tolerant about such acts. For the first few months that such acts of barbarism increased in Delhi, I, like most other people, thought it was a coincidence that the acts increased rapidly. And then it became a monthly issue. To think about it, there are several factors that may have caused such circumstances to exist in Delhi.
First and foremost, it is the size of the city surrounded by elements of rural Haryana and Rajasthan. People may call me a bastard, but they know what people from these two states are capable of. The BPO boom led to more jobs and it meant more expatriates from surrounding states. It is not just a coincidence that the last four out of five rape accused were from Haryana or Rajasthan. Drivers continuously being subjected to partial nudity in their night shifts, uneducated and tolerant people from smaller suburbs and many daily-wage workers in Delhi still think that a girl is giving them hints if she wears a tube top and a short skirt. It is worse if they can spot a small part of women underwear, and their eyes just stick out. Continue reading ‘Shameful Delhi’
