By: Jalandhara

Jalandhara — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:23:14 +0000

It does not do any good if the editorial such as this peddles myths such as:” a docile city like ours ( meaning Mysuru 2021), “corruption is part of any society, a pensioner’s paradise, meaning Mysuru 2021..”. It is surprising that Indians think that because their society is corrupt, all other societies must be so! Mine in a Western country is not.
As some one who was born and brought up in Mysuru, I would not characterise Mysuru of even 1950s as a docile city, a relatively quite society that was with less number of people and certainly modest traffic, compared to Bengaluru then, but was not a pensioner’s paradise. It had the Mysore university, a large employer, the CFTRI, certainly a large employers, the regional railway workshop and the HQ of the Southern Railway and the iconic medical college. But again, that was perceived relatively quite city as the City was slowly expanding unlike Bengaluru. But by 1960s with central audit and accounts office located in the Mysore Palace Building, more and more colleges springing up as well as small businesses locating from Bengaluru, the City was growing at a rapid phases. By early 1970s, Mysuru was expanding rapidly, with multiple extensions with new post codes.
Mr Ganapathy who landed in this City, in 1977, thought, it was a pensioners’ paradise, which it was not!
The Congress government then was reluctant to convert the Mysuru-Bengaluru railway line, from the metre gauge to broad gauge- a combination of reluctance to destroy the City and focus on expanding Bengaluru further. By 1980s, the expansion of the City was unstoppable, and the pollution became intolerable. The crime rate was rocketing up out of control: an example was the murder of our family doctor in his large house, when the armed burglary went wrong. There were other armed robberies to at that time, I recollect in a few cases, the victims were threatened with the Russian Kalashnikovs-thanks to the Tamil Tigers -the terrorists, from SriLanka were allowed in freely as a gesture of friendship by Karunanidhi ,some migrating to Mysuru, brought in the the automatic weapon culture. There was no way back. Use of handguns too became prevalent. That was 40 years ago!!
Now, it appears that the crimes, as I read from afar from time to time are on an exponential curve. My friends who have settled in Western countries on visits to Mysuru find that harassment of young women in streets are common. When complained to the police, cases were registered, and nothing much seemed to happen.
Female harassments lead to rape incidents such as this. One cannot dismiss as the crime of the working class men. Severe sexual harassments mentioned above, when my friends reported them to the Police were committed by young educated men, many of who were students.
It cannot be denied that in India, young females are considered as sexual objects. That is in a country which boasts Goddesses!
The country is degraded ethically and morally, looking at the institutional corruption and now perhaps societal female harassments.
It is a very sad state this country has sunk to.

By: swamy

swamy — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 04:57:07 +0000

Most high profile rape cases like Nirbhaya, or Telangana or this Mysore one, were commited by working class youth. The working class youth should be guided and provided better platform to become good citizens..Hope volunteer organizations hold some kind guidance classes for them to become good citizens.

By: boregowda

boregowda — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 13:18:08 +0000

Please can you explain how can Police arrest 6 people from 8 States, mathematically impossible unless the police let go a few and recaptured them from a different state

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