Ruchika Girhotra did not die in vain.She has energised the moral imagination of a new and assertive India,disposing the lazy ,unthinking belief that our middle-class is purely self-absorbed ,consumerist and callous.It says something about our changing society that an event that took place 19 years ago has become the source of outrage today and catharsis.Oddly enough ,dharma may be rising rather falling in our country.
It began on Dec.22 when I read about a police official sentenced to six months in jail for molesting a 14 year old girl.That evening I remarked cynically to a friend that this was just one of those stories that would soon die .He shook his head sadly and asked ,"What will it take to improve government?A Kurushetra-like war?"
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may I suggest a must read by Gurcharn Das:The Difficulty of Being Goood :On the subtle Art of Dharma"
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