The Talibanisation of India and of the over-hyped Silicon Valley-state-of-India (Karnataka) in particular, which began with the infamous attack on five college girls lunching in a pub in the coastal city of Mangalore on the eve of Republic Day (January 26), is proceeding apace according to the not-so-secret plan of quasi-political outfits such as the Ram Sene, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, VHS and RSS — all affiliates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which is making a desperate bid to emerge as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha, in the general election scheduled for this summer. Every day newspapers in Bangalore, the administrative capital of the BJP-ruled state of Karnataka, report instances of public assault and humiliation of working women and college students, for the crime of being clad in jeans and/or western attire.
The complicity of the state’s BJP government is manifest because the city’s bumbling police force hasn’t yet made a single arrest for the serious crimes of assault and molestation of working women by foot-soldiers of the said BJP affiliated outfits. Or else, why has the state government appointed a brain-dead police commissioner who seems ignorant of the fundamental tenets of police manuals, which plainly state that the easiest way to arrest sexual predators is by way of deploying women police decoys to trap them? On the contrary, instead of discharging the traditional job function of nabbing lawbreakers, successive police commissioners have destroyed Bangalore’s nightlife by ordering early closure of pubs, clubs and restaurants, thus imposing heavy loss on the state’s exchequer by way of reduced tax revenue.
Moreover the reluctance of members of the public to rush to the aid of women in distress indicates that under the post-independence socialist dispensation, India has degenerated into a nation of cowards. In boarding schools of yore, the unwritten code was that any verbal or physical assault on a lady automatically invited a mouthful of knuckles, no questions asked. With law enforcement in contemporary India reduced to a nasty joke, perhaps it’s time to reassert that unwritten code.