While in US somehow I develop a practice to read couple of Indian online newpapers. Last week I was reading the news of gang rape of 23 year old US student in Mumbai by her batch mates. Students of TISS (Tata Institute of Social Science). Established in 1936, the TISS is among the premier institutes of higher education in the country. It has over 1,150 students, including several foreign students who come for various specialised courses.
While reading the news a colleague of mine (US citizen) was standing behind me and I didn't noticed him. After sometime I realize someone behind me. But, It was too late for "Alt + Tab"
He just said "I read that" !!
Dhiraj Srivastava
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Interesting. Just to add to it the number of such cases has been rising ever since. I have read some new's articles about infants and minors being raped. And to my surprise all these cases at least most of them have being reported in metropolitan cities,where people are supposed too be more educated.
Sometimes I wonder why is all this happening. One answer that comes to my mind instantaneously is exposure to other cultures through television and movies has filled the young minds. And they try to imitate whatever they see.
The other reason could be that most of the population is too stressed out and is most of the time on a short fuse.
After having said that all I am still do not have a clear answer.
This is a matter of national shame, not to mention for TISS itself. Being a top-rung institute, TISS is supposed to have always invited some of the more acute and refined brains from the teeming billions to join its cadres. This incident affirms what all the rising incidents of this nature have always amply proved: that education alone doesn't transform primitive brutes into thinking, socially responsible humans. Everyone needs to re-evaluate for himself the very purpose of all education, often overlooked in the midst of all the passion and the fury: simply put, to exceed our petty, blind, stumbling humanity.
:-(
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