India Shows Little Sensitivity Towards Victims of Violence
Deepali Gaur Singh on July 21, 2008 - 8:00am

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/07/08/india-shows-little-sensitivity-towards-victims-violence

Witnessed voyeuristically, violence gets insidiously soaked in to everyday life in India. Yet ironically, sensitivity towards victims of such crimes remains abysmally low. So is really crime out there just for a daily dose of entertainment, until it comes visiting too close for comfort?

In a country that worships its celluloid heroes, there have long existed a separate strain of actors called action stars. Action stars disregard the system and evidence a disturbing sexist disposition in dealing with women. The wronged protagonist takes law in to his own hands and corrects what the system could not. At the end of the day it is still violence, but oddly, justified violence.