Gurgaon once again: MP schoolboy shoots mate
The news piece glared at me in the front page of TOI today. And i still haven't come out of the shock. Now, obviously i won't start complaining to what the world has come to? but somewhere we went wrong. We as an individual, as a family, as a society and as a nation went wrong. The following extract from the news piece says all:
This murder by a schoolboy, seen together with the Gurgaon killing and the murder of a student in Noida by his former classmates last month, shows a disturbing rise in violence involving students which until now was reported only from the US.
Its about time we realised our mistakes and did something about it. Innocence has already become so rare among us. We have lost the trust we had in the people. Everyday, we hear things happening around us, but unless they come to our doorstep we don't speak. Its always, the son of another man who shot or was shot. Its always the daughter of someone living far away who is raped by her own classmates, and its always the fault of the women who party at 2 past midnight who get molested. Its about time, we questioned the victim and the guilty less and questioned ourselves more. Each one of us.
What would we have done if we were there at 2 am in mumbai? What would we do, if we find someone with a gun in their hand, and what should we do to make sure that the people around us don't ever get the impulse to take such extreme steps. New year was good, but the days that have followed, the newspapers have been full with random incidents of rapes, murders, accidents because of drunken driving and more.
If anything has to change it will have to start with us, near us around us. If nothing is done, the day is not far when we will find our own sons carrying guns and daughters getting molested around. Its neither too easy, nor is it impossible. But we will have to understand the urgency of the situation, the urgent need of an action. We cannot be the bystanders, reading newspaper, sipping coffee and finally saying "ahh, what has world come to?"
"You must be the change, you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi.
3 comments:
am happy that we are finally talking about taking blame as a society and not throwing it all onto the victim.
and yes, orkut to the rescue..."society lays out the crime, individual commits it" or something to that extent. but basically you get me point.
yep... "action" is the word
P.S. - The last line of your post, if read by impressionable minds, can have diametrically opposite effects, depending upon the individual's propensity. A powerful weapon which Gandhi encapsulated in words.
Talking of trust we place in each other, I have an interesting observation. My mind, in the first few milliseconds, analyzed the first line of your post as about a Member of Parliament's son killing somebody with his knowledge of his papa's power fueling his adrenaline.
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