You know there have been quite a few attacks on women in some parts of Karanataka, apparently for wearing and behaving like "western" ladies. Here is the related facebook page, and an online petition.

Well, what moral rights do the attackers have? Are they following Indian tradition?

The attackers are supposed to wear Indian "dress", something like this:

The shirts and trousers are not of Indian origin, you know? On the top, they can wear a shawl, if they wish, but certainly not a shirt or a t-shirt.

The attackers are not supposed to wear shoes also. Their (Indian) footwear should look like this:

The attackers, while chasing helpless women, should use a vehicle of Indian origin, not motorbikes. Here is the proposed vehicle:

We have read that the attackers even offered their mobile phones to contact the police! Again the mobile phones are of western origin. The preferred mode of communication between the attackers should be (please substitute the woman in pic with an attacker):

It appears that even middle-aged males were involed in attacks (read the online petition). Assuming that the middle-aged attackers are married, I wonder how many kids do they have! The middle-aged attackers are not supposed to use condoms, can not undergo vasectomy, or force their wives to undergo tubectomy. All these things are not of Indian origin. They can stop having sex or they can reproduce continously until their death!

Well, I got to stop here. I can not keep on listing the non-Indian things the attackers use, as the list is seemingly endless! Feel free to list a few more nonIndian things the attackers use (through comments), if you think I have missed some important things!

Image credits: Various websites.

Report: "The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed educational institutions to put down ragging with an iron hand and suspend/expel students indulging this activity. It asked regulatory bodies to reduce grants-in-aid to institutions that tried to shield the culprits."

Zee News reports that "The directions to check ragging were based on the recommendations made by an apex court-appointed committee, headed by former CBI Director R K Raghavan, and were delivered by a Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and M K Sharma, which accepted its report. The Bench asked state governments and Union Territories to act in terms of guidelines recommended by the committee to end the menace of ragging in educational institutions across the country. The apex court, which has already banned ragging, said the recommendations made by its committee would be "binding" on all educational institutions."

     However, I had a cursory look at the judgement, and what all it says is "After consideration of the reports, we direct that the Government in the States and the Union Territories and the University shall act in terms of the guidelines formulated by the Constituted Committee. The MCI, BCI in consultation with UGC shall frame the requisite regulations which shall be binding on the institutions."

     The judgement can be accessed from the official website of Supreme court of India, by searching for the case "UNIVERSITY OF KERALA Vs. COUNCIL,PRINCIPALS',COLLEGES,KERALA &ORS", judgement date February 11, 2009 (the direct link to pdf from other sites does not work, you got to search for the said case and download the pdf directly).

BTW, the "RaggingReport.pdf" (Raghavan Committee report) is available on Department of Higher Education.

BBTW, there exists a non-profit Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education (CURE).