I am from India and you are right.
There is a definite increase in crime due to growing disparity in wealth , forced dispossession and displacement of people both urban and rural in the name of development , the spread of the mafia , lumpenisation of sections of the jobless and the spell of the hedonistic culture of pure consumption by the newly affluent classes and the celebration of this life style by the media.. Increased media attention on attack on women and increase in the number of reported incidents of crime including rape complete the picture ..
Fraternally
N Madhavan Kutty
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/six-men-arrested-over-gangrape-of-swiss-tourist-in-india-appear-in-court-as-police-say-woman-must-share-blame-for-attack-8539233.html
>
> Yesterday, a spokesman for Madhya Pradesh police caused anger by
> suggesting that the Swiss woman and her husband were partly to blame
> for the attack. Inspector Avnesh Kumar Budholiya said the tourists had
> been careless in travelling to a remote part of the country they knew
> little about.
>
> “No one stops there,” he said. “Why did they choose that place? They
> were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They would have passed a
> police station on the way to the area they camped. They should have
> stopped and asked about places to sleep.”
>
> The attack comes three months after the fatal gang rape of a woman on
> a New Delhi bus which sparked outrage over the treatment of women in
> Indian society.
>
>
> [WS:] This kinds of news come as a surprise. I did not think of the
> Indian society as being particularly violent, but this suggests there
> is a dark side there too. I wonder if this represents a new
> development or merely increased media attention to an existing
> problem.
>
> One possibility is that if this is an upsurge of violent crime, this
> may be a result of the spread of neoliberalism. When I lived in China
> in the late 1960s, crime was not an issue there. I would walk with my
> mother almost everywhere without the fear of being attacked or robbed.
> I recall the following incident: one time we went to a nearby store
> where my mom bought some stuff. Shortly after we returned, the
> doorman called and said that someone wants to speak to my mom. It was
> a clerk from the store - after we left he discovered that he made a
> mistake and did not give my mom enough change, so he decided to return
> it. The amount was rather small, but since the locals did not earn
> much, it was worth considerably more to them than to my mom - but yet
> they took the effort to return the money instead of simply pocketing
> it. After China turned capitalist I hear that crime and corruption
> are rampant there, so it must be a product of capitalism.
>
> I wonder if a similar process is taking place in India. Anyone?
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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