> india is not part of the west and i do not see similar acts of castrated
> frustration there.
On the other hand, there's an enormous amount of daily, unreported violence in India, including a number of regional national insurgencies and patriarchal violence against women, though no more so than in any other agrarian/semifeudal society undergoing rapid industrialization and urbanization. I wonder if there are specific factors of India's postcolonial history which have held the most explosive forms of violence in check - e.g. the memory of the deep wounds of the partition, which have never really healed.
-- DRR