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India can never reach its full potential
with women living in fear: NYT
Saturday December 29, 2012 09:13:52 PM,
Arun Kumar, IANS
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Washington: As the
American media kept up prominent coverage of the tragic saga of an
Indian gang-rape victim, a leading US daily said the rising
economic power "can never reach its full potential if half its
population lives in fear of unspeakable violence".
In an editorial under the title "Rape in the World's Largest
Democracy", the influential New York Times said: "The brutal gang
rape of a young woman in New Delhi this month has cast a cold
light on how badly India treats its women."
"This reprehensible crime reflects an alarming trend in India,
which basks in its success as a growing business and technological
mecca but tolerates shocking abuse of women," it said.
Calling for reforms in the law enforcement system to make
convictions more possible and punishments more convincing, the
Times said: "More broadly, India must work on changing a culture
in which women are routinely devalued."
"India, a rising economic power and the world's largest democracy,
can never reach its full potential if half its population lives in
fear of unspeakable violence," it said.
US media also gave prominence to reports of Indian police adding
murder charges to allegations of gang-rape against six accused men
after the victim died in a Singapore hospital.
The Washington Post said in an earlier report citing analysts:
"The brutal rape shook Indians out of their usual apathy."
"The response to it was galvanized by a complex confluence of
factors, including the rise of a vocal, urban middle class, the
use of social media and changing lifestyles," the daily said
noting, "Similar factors triggered the massive anti-corruption
movement that swept Indian cities last year."
The Los Angeles Times reported "the assault provoked thousands of
New Delhi residents to throng the presidential palace last
weekend, chanting 'We want justice!' and 'Hang them now,'
culminating a six-day outpouring of anger at authorities for doing
too little to deter assaults on women in the Indian capital."
Time magazine carried a photo feature on "an alleged gang rape in
Delhi (that) has prompted calls for change by women's rights
groups and violent clashes between police and anti-rape protests
in the nation's capital".
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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