The rapist vote bank

I am sensing some ennui in the reportage around the horrific rape and murder at the R.G. Kar Medical College. Perhaps it is just me, but it seems that the media, while putting on their grimmest faces and asking—‘how many girls will have to die horrible deaths before we fix ourselves as a society?’—seem to be mouthing this often-repeated line a little mechanically.

- ANUJA CHAUHAN

There is a sense of simply going through the paces, before moving on to something more ‘important’ and ‘substantial,’ like the prime minister’s visit to Ukraine, say, or the state of the stock market.

Politicians, while claiming to care, seem to be indulging either in tokenism or opportunism. Regular folks are disheartened as well. Because we have held candlelit marches for Jessica and we have protested for Nirbhaya. No One killed Jessica and Delhi Crime have been produced, released, watched and awarded. The Nirbhaya gang rape and murder ended Sheila Dikshit’s reign in Delhi and ushered in the newer, ‘cleaner’ government of the Aam Aadmi Party. We did our bit. Or did we?