Oh God!

I am speechless. Read this:

Essentials of journalism: Get facts. Get opinions. Get counter-opinions. Question everything.
Now here are (or what appear to be) the facts:
A seven-year-old girl is found dead inside a politician's car.
There are blood stains on her underwear.
Post-mortem report suggests 'smothering' as cause of death.
Police find out the child was also being treated for congenital heart disease.
Cop goes on record to suggest the girl died of a stroke, because of the heart disease. Explains away her presence in the politician's car by saying she must have felt sick and so crawled into the car to sleep.

- (from Annie’s blog)

And most probably nothing will happen, yet again. I can’t think of any other “democracy” where something like this won’t become a public outrage except for the world’s largest one.

And then they claim “India is shining”. Really? Does progress just means doing economically well? Doesn’t it apply to social aspect of the society too? I think we as a society are stagnant. We are at least a century behind rest of the world. And worse: there is no effort being made to progress in that regard. The literate section of our society (use of literate instead of educated is intentional) can’t be bothered by such issues. They don’t have time for such stupid things; they are too busy making money. Hell, 50% of them don’t even read newspaper. What’s the use of being literate? But again, if they did read newspaper they will no longer be “just literate”. They might just become educated. And even the educated section of our society isn’t vocal enough. If they do feel enraged by such issues, they don’t express it. They don’t express it loudly. They don’t express it publicly. And unless we express that rage, we will never progress.

P.S.: This whole episode reminds me of a song from movie Pyaasa. The first ever song written about the plight of prostitutes. The song was:

“Jinhe naaz hai Hind par wo kaha hain?
Kaha hain, kaha hain, kaha hain?”

(Where are the people who are proud of India?
Where are they? Where are they? Where are they?)