Public Memory, Gang Rape & Terrorist Attacks.
Following has been unwritten Standard Responding Procedure(SRP) of certain sections of our society whenever some terrorist attack or bomb blast happens in our country. The same could be (and is) applied on incident of rape. Public: We will light candles & shout slogans. Police: We will catch the culprit as soon as possible. Politician in Power: We will suspend the responsible policemen. We will not allow this to happen again. Politician in Opposition: We demand the immediate dismissal of this government. Press: We will drop all other stories, continuously show the protests & organize debates in studios. Activist: We will file PILs in the courts. After every terrorist attack all the above respond in the same manner. After much uproar everything dies down till next terrorist attack happens. Now the same set of response is seen after the Delhi gangrape case. Hope, that like terrorist attacks, such style of response doesn’t becomes a practice after every cas...