Acid Attacks

The Supreme Court Monday had asked the Indian government to examine the feasibility of having a stringent penal law akin to the one in Bangladesh to deal with cases of women and young girls being attacked with acid. It has also asked the government to examine the feasibility of regulating the sale of acid on the lines of provisions in Bangladesh. India's neighbouring country has an Acid Control Order, which regulates the sale of the material. But in India it is available for sale across the counter and proves to be a lethal weapon in the hands of people with a criminal bent of mind.

This was way back in April, 2008 and as always the government has failed to act with any sort of urgency. The matter is still caught up in bureaucratic red tape and in all probability will not see the light of day anytime soon.

Meanwhile, countless women across the country bear the brunt of these barbaric cowardly attacks most commonly at the hands of shunned "lovers".

What fine people are running this country....

The Indian Hate Sena (Army)

Self proclaimed protectors of what they think is Indian culture have taken it upon themselves to launch various types of protests against Valentine's day celebrations across a few states in India. These Hindu extremists groups often christen themselves after Hindu gods as if to suggest that they are performing God's work. When all these sanity deprived, frustrated attention seeking hooligans really do is terrorize innocent people on the premise of very flimsy grounds. In response to the now infamous Mangalore incident the union minister for women and child development, Renuka Choudhary termed it a Talabanizaiton of India by to put it quite bluntly hordes of sexually frustrated men. And this to me is fact. As one victim of the incident recounted, "we were groped and molested in the name of God."


The names of these groups are not worth a mention right now. All the while its leader, a notorious thug with numerous criminal cases pending against him, claimed and still continues to do so blatanly adamant as ever, that they carried out the act i.e. the assualt on helpless young women, in the interest of protecting Indian culture.