Are white women being harassed, molested and raped in India as a reaction to the attack on Indian students in Australia? One can never say, but in a country where white skin is always an item of pride the hatred for whites (read Australians) has never been higher and the reason for this is the nature of coverage the media in both countries has given these incidents.
The press coverage of the attack on Indian students in Australia, never earlier known for racism has been so detailed that it has verged on the level of being provocative. But foreign students or rather Indian students still continue to go to Australia, because not only do they value the kind of education they will get there but also the kind of jobs they will pick up there when they finish their education.
There have been two shocking incidents of foreign women being molested and raped recently in two cities, Lucknow where a woman tourist was molested inside a bus and the other passengers did not bother to even murmur a protest and Chandigarh where two drivers raped a teenager inside a moving taxi. So have Indians suddenly decided to become racist too?
Both these crimes can be attributed to different reasons, but the short span if time in which they have taken place after the Australian incidents is alarming. Moreover because the tourist season is only a few months away and India will stand to lose a lot of foreign exchange and goodwill if the wrong message is sent across the world that India is an unsafe destination for foreign tourists especially women.
The police stomp, kick and lathicharge innocent and unarmed protestors as a rule in India, but when the Aussie police dispersed a crowd of Indian students in Australia the headline categorically made an attempt to play up this angle. In India such an incident would have been covered by a label headline saying Cops disburse unruly mob.
Once the word gets around that Indians have become racist too, then our five thousand year old tradition of the guest being equivalent to God will go for a six and the tourist season could be bowled out for a duck.
Chand and Fiza are together again but only time will tell kitnee mohabbat hai between the former Dy CM of Haryana and his government counsel. Love prevails, Chand and Fiza are reunited. Or so it seems for the time being. Has it really happened? Has Chand really gone back to his lady love Fiza whom he had abandoned. If psychologists are to be believed Chand is right now going through guilt pangs and wishes to be reunited with his lady love whom he feels he betrayed by abandoning her to her fate after using her to satisfy his lust. This is what post divorce syndrome is like they say.
Family court lawyers too believe there is something called post divorce syndrome when the divorce takes place too suddenly. In India this normally does not happen because the procedure for obtaining a contested divorce is very cumbersome and lengthy and the legal process can take up to several years. In the case of a divorce by mutual consent it happens in 6 months among Hindus.
Post divorce syndrome has led to many families patching up after the divorce and even calling off the proceedings on the last day, but this is a very rare phenomenon. Normally it has been found that once a man is attracted to a younger woman who is much sexier and who looks up to him in admiration he decides to leave the older woman. The desire for sex is usually in the background of such decisions. As our society becomes more liberal more and more such cases will take place. This situation is becoming more and more common among the rich class of big metros like Delhi and Mumbai where leaving the first wife for the sake of a younger and sexier bed partner is becoming more common.
While we can never say for sure why Chand and Fiza are together and how long it will last, for we are not sure Kitnee Muhobbat Hai, but one thing is certain the couple are living together again. And the matter rests there.
Such situations are very common in Delhi today say sociologists who have come across several cases of people working together who decide to dump their existing spouses and move in with each other. People suddenly begin to find flaws in their existing partners as they find they do not have much in common with them. For example artists will find a lot more in common with artists, similarly with journalists and so on. Therefore couples working in one field find it easier to be attracted to each other. But this lasts as long as they are working together for once monogamy is discarded and promiscuity becomes the norm the desire to experiment with new partners only grows.
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