Attack on women at a bar in India raises fear of "Hindu Taliban"
Rebecca and Clara
South and Southwest Asia
Article: "Attack on women at a bar in India raises fear of "Hindu Taliban"
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-india-brawl29-2009jan29,0,4516385.story
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You can easily say that it is normal for corruptions on the street to occur, from small things with an appropriate reason. But when 40 men try to attack you, slapping, pummeling and yanking you by the hair, you know that the problem has been pushed to its limit. However, this tragic even recently occurred on the streets of New Delhi. After being pushed out of the way, 40 attackers revealed that they were after young women at a bar. They later justified this by saying it was "a bid to safeguard traditional Indian culture." The men believed that women shouldn't wear Western clothes, drink alcohol or have an independent lifestyle. Shri Ram Sena was the group responsible for this act. "We are not a group of mad men, we are a patriotic group. We are the citizens of this nation, and I feel it is our duty to discipline indecent behavior. It is out of this sense of duty that we feel the need to safeguard our culture," says Pramod Muthalik, the group's leader. This attack shows the growing gap between an India that has "gone right into the flow" of the 21st century and a more traditional world of India. One girl says, "I feel caught between two worlds. At home, it's the old traditional India, but when I go out it's the new India."
This is an important article because it shows how different people are reacting to different changes in the world, such as in India. It highlights some beliefs and values certain people have and it's important to know how people are acting because things like this shouldn't be happening. It also showed how women are shunted aside in various cultures and how it is very hard to change this problem because people are getting accustomed to those ways. This struck me because women should not be treated this way and should have an equal say in they like and their rights.
South and Southwest Asia
Article: "Attack on women at a bar in India raises fear of "Hindu Taliban"
Source: http://www.latimes.
Top 3 Headlines:
Police in India charge 10 men in raping nun
Protest in India over "Slumdog Millionaire"
Attack on women at a bar in India raises fear of "Hindu Taliban"
You can easily say that it is normal for corruptions on the street to occur, from small things with an appropriate reason. But when 40 men try to attack you, slapping, pummeling and yanking you by the hair, you know that the problem has been pushed to its limit. However, this tragic even recently occurred on the streets of New Delhi. After being pushed out of the way, 40 attackers revealed that they were after young women at a bar. They later justified this by saying it was "a bid to safeguard traditional Indian culture." The men believed that women shouldn't wear Western clothes, drink alcohol or have an independent lifestyle. Shri Ram Sena was the group responsible for this act. "We are not a group of mad men, we are a patriotic group. We are the citizens of this nation, and I feel it is our duty to discipline indecent behavior. It is out of this sense of duty that we feel the need to safeguard our culture," says Pramod Muthalik, the group's leader. This attack shows the growing gap between an India that has "gone right into the flow" of the 21st century and a more traditional world of India. One girl says, "I feel caught between two worlds. At home, it's the old traditional India, but when I go out it's the new India."
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