Nothing will happen, Sunil will walk free…

While I detest that cast-creed differences still exist in this day and age, we do have to recognize that trying to change generations of socially acceptable (and encouraged) behavior will take generations to overcome. Yes, we may pass laws demanding equal justice of all the nation’s inhabitants, but this approach will only work if we uphold it as a law abiding society. Until then, we must allow these negative and hurtful beliefs/practices to “die out” with the older generation. The successive generations need to teach their descendants of the vileness of the past and how we as a people need to rise above such human failings by punishing criminals to the maximum extent of the law.

This problem is not dissimilar to what we here in the US face regarding various forms of racism and class-ism. We look down cast upon the immigrant worker struggling to meek out the American Dream. We hail the death of racism, yet we know the truth that it has not been stamped out, only been better “hidden” by our society. Racism used to be out in the open, now its practiced more subtly and in a more nuanced fashion.

India is on the cusp of a new age. A new beginning. An era of unlimited possibility yet if we do not use our new economic status to uplift the nation as a whole, there will be cancers such as this festering causing the nation to rot from within.