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Why I Support The Attack On Women

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Off late there has been a lot of reports, both via the main stream media as well as blogs, about the increasing number of attacks on women. So i decided to do an RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of the situation myself. Basically i wanted to find answer to these questions -

  1. Why do such attacks happen?
  2. Who are these attackers? Are they teenagers or people well in their late 30s?
  3. Whom did they target? What was so special about the people who were attacked?
  4. What they did, is it wrong? … etc.

Problem Statement:

As far what i read in the news papers and what i heard from others discussing, these attacks were orchestrated by people who say they are supporting the ‘Indian Culture‘. They call them selves as the conservators of Indian Culture. The good Samaritans who resorted to a quick resolution of the problem, attacked the women to save the Indian Culture form getting westernized, the same evil forces from which the Mahatma delivered us (they might argue so)

Hence we have our Problem Statement as : The Attack was to preserve/conserve the Indian Culture.

Analysis:

Now that we have defined the problem statment, lets looks at the analysis. Lets define what happened, what were the public reactions like.

The people who attacked women in Mangalore, Bangalore, Mysore (???), some-other-’ore’ etc. ( lets refer them for the time being as SenaPpl), just couldn’t digest the fact that the bharatiya naari (Indian Woman) dressed in jeans and T-s. Plus the fact that they were dining at a lounge, crossing-the road, waiting for a bus or even minding-their-on-business when they where attacked.

The people who were attacked (we will refer them as Victims), were teenagers and techies. The Victims all had one thing in common, they were wearing western clothes – jeans, t-s, skirts etc. If you might notice the attacks were not on women who were wearing saree/salwar/any authentic Indian dress. The SenaPpl were all men. There were no incidends of women attacking men or women attacking women. It was the XY chromosomes attacking the XX Chromosomes.

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Thought for the Week – 29 Oct 07

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thought Thought for the Week 29 Oct 07Think, Ponder, Enjoy

“In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are traveling in a wrong path” — Swami Vivekananda

There is another one that counters it at the first look

“If everything else comes your way, you are probably on the wrong track”

Though they seem to contradict each other. They are in effect telling you how to handle problems in two separate situations.

What Vivekananda meant is – “you shouldn’t ignore your problems” and the one i quoted above – “a change of perspective will help you face the troubles”.

Here is another set -

“Appearances can be deceptive”

“Clothes maketh the man”

Literally or otherwise they contradict and i see nothing that explains what they stand for. So any great thinkers out there, be my guest and help solve this one.

Thought For the Week – 24 Sep 07

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thinking man vector Thought For the Week 24 Sep 07“It is no longer enough to be smart — all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart…” – Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman

Technology at this age is used altogether for the wrong reasons and to make us lazy by the day. Leave alone the enhancement of the core values, we dont even go out to enjoy a nice stroll in the park, what do we do instead, get on the thread mill.

The most mundane tasks getting automated, and we not even beading as sweat, technology, in most of the examples that can be sited, all together stands for the wrong reasons.