"Attacks on women show tensions between old and new India; Village values clash with those in modern city" by Lydia Polgreen, New York Times / March 27, 2011
GHAZIABAD, India — It was the latest in a series of sexual assaults and gang rapes of women in India’s booming capital and its suburbs.
In each case there has been an explosive clash between the rapidly modernizing city and the embattled, conservative village culture upon which the capital increasingly encroaches. The victims are almost invariably young, educated working women who are enjoying freedom unknown even a decade ago.
The accused are almost always young high school dropouts from surrounding villages, where women who work outside the home are often seen as lacking in virtue and therefore deserving of harassment and even rape....
No one deserves that soul-robbing inhumanity.
Law enforcement officials say that the rate of violent crime against women has actually dropped in Delhi in the past four years, owing to more aggressive policing efforts, measures like women-only train cars and laws that require companies that employ women on late shifts to chauffeur them home.
WHAT?
That certainly FLIES in the FACE of the DECEIVING HEADLINE, doesn't it?
But a vast majority of crimes against women go unreported, the police and women's activists say.
When the agenda-pushing papers start using terms like "vast majority" you should give a sniff.
The clash between the increasingly cosmopolitan city and its traditional surroundings is worsening, they say....
I don't want to read anymore, readers.
Related:
"The census’s most alarming finding is the continuing preference for sons over daughters in Indian society. In many parts of India, female fetuses are aborted or female infants killed soon after birth by families that look upon daughters as a financial burden. The trend is worse in the states where people are prosperous and educated."
WTF?
And if they don't abort you they burn you?
