DELHI'S UNDER- BELLY

In a gruesome repeat of the 2005 dhaula kuan rape case, another girl was raped in a moving three wheeler by four-five men. Significantly, the important common thing in both the cases is not the secluded location of a big flyover near dhaula kuan, but the origin of both the victims from the north east region of India. Why is this happening again? Although, Delhi is termed as a rape capital by many people but, in Delhi also the girls who come from northeastern states are being specifically targeted more often.

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Emile Durkheim the famous sociologist from France had said’’ crime is a social fact and social facts are ways of feeling, thinking and acting commonly spread among the people, external to individual and exercising a constraint upon him”.

Targeting of northeastern Indian girls has become a fact now.  The main reason of this trend is the perception of the common Delhi males that these girls are open minded, and hence easily available. They being slightly different in their looks give them an outsider’s tag which makes them more tempting and relatively easier to target. The overall aggressive culture of the city, coupled with the coexistence of two worlds, entirely different and opposite to each other, make the capital a horrible place to live for women.

On the one hand, Delhi is emerging as a 21^st century’s modern cosmopolitan city with all the glitz and glamour of a western capital and the work force with its modern outlook to match . On the other hand, the old world’s parochial and chauvinistic male dominated north Indian feudal mentality is also very much present here. When the old world sees the brightness of the new world, it tries to suppress it, through dominance and force. Rape is just a manifestation of the desperation of that loosing old world.

Quality liberal education with right moral lessons from parents will go a long way in the making of a child into a good and responsible citizen.