Rapes .... Apes
28.12.12. If it were to take people a whole ten days to disaster to start thinking of how to tackle it, in this era of weapons of mass destruction, the globe would be totally destroyed before any remedial action would be taken, wouldn’t it! That is the spectacle in India just now. Almost a fortnight after the gruesome gang rape in Delhi, after the poor girl has been flown out of the country, finally a sane voice has spoken. Lawyer and columnist in Ahmedabad Mirror (28.12.2012), Gautam Patel has listed the various sections of the law on rape which need amendment and then implementation, rather than the death penalty being touted. That penalty, in all probability, will never happen, given the judicial system of our times that lets off the rapists in no time. He covers a whole range, from criminal assault to outrage 'modesty' ( what is that, if not another male / patriarchal concept??), adultery which only men are entitl...