That was the remark of the Karnataka State home minister on the New Years Eve incident on Brigade Road, Bangalore.
What is with men in mixed crowds in India who go berserk with women given the anonymity such large crowds provide. They brazenly assault these helpless women and in one of yesterday's incidents, an inebriated girl was almost stripped of all her clothes until a woman police officer came to her rescue. There were 1500 police personnel in the large crowd of revellers but it is reported they were heavily outnumbered. This is not a news item you would come across during the time there were Anglo Indian police inspectors. With merely a baton in hand, they would bravely face the crowd and cow them down, giving much needed morale to their subordinate policemen who would then make a lathi-charge. Police today are more adept at making a charge for the money than for an unruly crowd. That thankfully is balanced by young as well as older Indian women who no longer cow down meekly at being sexually abused. They bravely retaliate to the extent they can. Long live Indian women's new strength. Roland Francis Toronto.
