For the unbelievers??
The recent murder at the Gateway of India has invited critics from all over the city and country. Its the city that only supposedly has a heart and it's all a big farce. People are all claiming that the people surrounding the girls should have been helped by the bystanders.
We have the epitome of feminism, Mrs. Shobaa De taking the oppurtunity to blast the males in the crowd. We have plenty of letters being written to various editors of various newspapers. I would just like to ask all the doubting Thomases whether anyone of them would have stepped up and rescued the two girls. Let me tell you that fear paralyzes. One loses one's basic presence of mind. Fear grips you in a manner that renders you unable to perform the most mundane task. I am not saying that they must not have been helped. It's just that the people must have been overcome with fear and hence were not responding in time. I know what the survivor said regarding that she screamt out for help yet her pleaas felll on deaf ears. Fear does do that to you.
My city has a heart. Mumbai is compassionate. I have been on the right side for long wnough to vouch for the same. Please stop being so cynical of the world.
One more word to Mrs. De. Would you have stepped forward? Sure you would have. Or should I say your bodyguards? Your female bodyguards.
We have the epitome of feminism, Mrs. Shobaa De taking the oppurtunity to blast the males in the crowd. We have plenty of letters being written to various editors of various newspapers. I would just like to ask all the doubting Thomases whether anyone of them would have stepped up and rescued the two girls. Let me tell you that fear paralyzes. One loses one's basic presence of mind. Fear grips you in a manner that renders you unable to perform the most mundane task. I am not saying that they must not have been helped. It's just that the people must have been overcome with fear and hence were not responding in time. I know what the survivor said regarding that she screamt out for help yet her pleaas felll on deaf ears. Fear does do that to you.
My city has a heart. Mumbai is compassionate. I have been on the right side for long wnough to vouch for the same. Please stop being so cynical of the world.
One more word to Mrs. De. Would you have stepped forward? Sure you would have. Or should I say your bodyguards? Your female bodyguards.
posted by Sunil Natraj at 8/24/2005 03:21:00 PM
7 Comments:
Two words: Bystander effect.
Fear is all right. It is honourable to be afraid. And yet it is worth applauding if despite one's fears, one gathers the courage to fight the situation. In the end, what do our fears concern us? Our own well-being. But, if we are to be termed "compassionate", and I take umbrage to your usage of the term, we, the people, must comprehend that we have to rise above our fears, and assist those who need our assistance.
And, when I say, we the people, I am including both male and females, because it has been recently seen that even in the presence of women, a women can be harassed and the perpetrator can get away scotch-free.
Still, I do not blame the people, because in the end, they too have their own lives to live, and safeguard. I only pray that next time such an event should occur, God forbid, that my people have the courage to overpower the villain and save precious lives.
Compassion can be meted out if at all there is the sense of surrounding.
Tight anti-De comments... How often do all by-standers succumb to fear?
Interesting passage, but here's where the 'man' in one must rise ..
hey... wots ur yahoo id ? im the_venomous_vignesh add me again please
was just browsing through the blogs of the ppl from our college and came across urs and here's wot i hav to say
quite good defense of the indian male but all in vain...
these guys hav all the courage to fight for the coveted space next to a modern looking college girl in an overly jam-packed st, but when it comes to the real thing, all of them shit in their pants b4 doing anything... wait a minute, that's not anything, that's nothing...
u seem to b proving to be a good read!!!! good.... there is depth too... and the flair for new ideas...... as i hv noticed u hv just touched the gateway of introspection in this blog once or maybe twice......
kya bolta hai..... u hv to raise above ur fears...... thts wht u hv said rite......
i thot u beleive in action...
after all this blog i supposed to b a vehicle for self-indulgence,, ain't it??? ... rise above the fears tht u hv.....
beyond the reach of pain and sorrow..beyond the reach of faceless sacrifice(u thot i wudn know??).. beyond the reach of ignominy.... beond the meandering thought of personal failures......... into the outstretched arms of success and happiness........
u knw wht i am spakin.....
--the devil
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