The curious Déjà vu case of #India #Rapes I studied French for two semesters during my two years in the university and while I did manage to pass in the exams I sat for, today years later I remember mostly two words from the French class, both of which most of us know irrespective of ever having a French teacher. One, Foutre Vous. Two, Déjà vu. The latter means already seen: the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past, whether it has actually happened or not. As for the first word, I mentioned it to ‘sensationalise’ the piece to get you reading about the ‘sensitive’. So what is Déjà vu? And why does India excel in it? Why this FRENCH word a part of INDIAN psychology, news, habits and headlines? There are seasons. Natureholics note the differences between summer, autumn, spring and winter. Fashionholics fixate on Winter, Spring/Summer and Fall/Pre- Fall collections. And Indians have come to expect the scam season, the rape season, the bomb season and the murder season… these seasons, too, shall pass? Unresolved? We believe in seasons: seasons of course reappear: it’s a cycle. Example: Once upon a time everyone in India was obsessed about kids falling into pits. The whole nation prayed for a child stuck in a pit as troops tried to save his life. Did no one fall in a pit after that? Were all the manholes covered over? Who knows? We all moved on. Example: The obsession moved to incest victims. The newspapers splashed gruesome tales. Did hands cease straying where they shouldn’t, after that? We don’t remember. We all moved on. Example: A 23-yearold was gang raped. The rape continued: a 6-year-old, then a 45-year-old, and now a 27-year-old. Soon we won’t remember them, either. We’ll just move on. So why are we surprised that this December too we are talking of the RAPE of a girl. We did that last December too. It is December people; we’ll protest, tweet and fight. We’ll cry and scream. Come January, we’ll move on say to a 100 crore movie club news or corrupt MPs or New Year Resolution. Aah! The curious Déjà vu case of #India #Rapes #uber #DelhiShamedAgain #rape #trumpettoot The Indian Trumpet
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 06:54:29 +0000
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