It is there in all the countries and it has been there in India for quite some time. But the recent events that are getting worldwide attention, is it because information is easily spread or is there a significant recent rise in such cases?
Are the lower income people have more tendency to get into such acts or are they the only ones getting caught in act and rich and powerful getting escaped?
Whatever it is, the country where people wholeheartedly worship Goddesses, it is sad to see woman’s horrible treatment. A major overhaul in social awareness is urgently needed along with stricter implementation of laws.
Shame, shame..!

What else?

How about child slavery on the front page of CNN today?

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/20/toddlers-freed-from-brick-kiln-bondage/?hpt=hp_c1

You gotta wonder what kind of a lowlife creep you have to be to exploit little kids for slave labor. Truly shameful.

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Are you there?

We know, child slavery was there since long time and those who migrated from India, would have seen this at many places including work at house to factories, constructions etc.
I am suspecting the recent evolution in technologuy may be one of the factors behind rise in sexual violance. In early days the only medium was videos and cinemas and those were well under control. Nowadays TV, computer, smart phones and internet made porn and related material very easily available. People with sick mentality were always there but these things might have added fuel to such thinking resulting in sexual violances additional contributors could be imbalanced sex ratio, lack of sex education and rise in poverty.
Thoughts?

These are complex issues depicting the changing face of society. Lets keep them in two buckets – one corruption and another sex and sex related crimes. Whole society has not only accepted the practice of corruption but also become a part of it. When I was a teenager, the corrupt person was seen as a downgraded menace of the society. He always tried to hide his corrupt practices and corruption was unacceptable in general. Now a days, a corrupt person will say with proud that how much he makes under the table. Corruption becomes a status symbol and no more a reason to shame. Now society has accepted it because he is the person who contributes most in the local celebrations like Ramleela. Undoubtedly, the corruption has seeped deep inside the society. Now the real question is ‘Have we reached to the bottom’? If no, how far can we go further and if yes, how will we revive.

Regarding the other bucket of sex and sex related crimes; they all are byproducts of fast unplanned growing and modernizing society where morality is on decline. The social moral bindings are fading away. The impact of the new technology and modernization has divided the youth in two broader sections – one who have and another who haven’t. Here from ‘have’ I mean education, status, resources, inheritance, respectable position in society, job, girl friend(s), opportunities of having sex and so on. Another section, who don’t have, is also a part of the same society where they learned ‘beg and if you can’t then snatch’. This snatch culture has become a monster. The social acceptability of corruption, moral degradation, widening gap of wealth and lack of discipline fuelled the crime culture. So what we are looking at now a day is nothing but the outcome of how we have shaped our society in the last few decades.

Now the million dollar question remains the same – have we reached the bottom?

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A Delhite in Toronto