Five days after the supposed "mass molestation" in Bengaluru’s upmarket MG and Brigade roads, everyone needs to take a step back and figure out what really happened.
There are two major narratives: One is that, at the stroke of midnight, men in the crowd (more than one lakh according to some estimates) simply went nuts. As if with one mind, Bengaluru’s depraved men started pawing and groping at any girl they could get their hands on. Women ran for their lives, but the police were of no help. This is what breathless anchors on national TV channels will have us believe.
The other narrative is what Bengaluru’s hapless new police commissioner Praveen Sood has been trying to get across. According to him, nothing happened.
Both narratives could be bogus. The truth, as always is in such cases, lies somewhere in between.
Yes, girls were molested by drunken louts, but many eyewitnesses say that the mass molestation as reported in the national press and eagerly picked up by international media (if it shows India in a bad light, that’s news, baby!), may not have happened. But something did happen, according to the Bangalore Mirror, which tracked down ten witnesses who all said they were subject to or witness to molestation. Full story...
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There are two major narratives: One is that, at the stroke of midnight, men in the crowd (more than one lakh according to some estimates) simply went nuts. As if with one mind, Bengaluru’s depraved men started pawing and groping at any girl they could get their hands on. Women ran for their lives, but the police were of no help. This is what breathless anchors on national TV channels will have us believe.
The other narrative is what Bengaluru’s hapless new police commissioner Praveen Sood has been trying to get across. According to him, nothing happened.
Both narratives could be bogus. The truth, as always is in such cases, lies somewhere in between.
Yes, girls were molested by drunken louts, but many eyewitnesses say that the mass molestation as reported in the national press and eagerly picked up by international media (if it shows India in a bad light, that’s news, baby!), may not have happened. But something did happen, according to the Bangalore Mirror, which tracked down ten witnesses who all said they were subject to or witness to molestation. Full story...
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