"Public moral outrage travels swiftly when scandal threatens reputations and diplomatic optics. Yet that sensitivity to association sits uneasily beside a domestic reality in which sexual violence against women unfolds with brutal regularity, drawing neither comparable embarrassment nor consequence. The contrast is grotesque."
"A political culture capable of signalling discomfort towards a global scandal remains strikingly untroubled by the everyday brutality faced by women at home. Under the Modi administration, the news cycle churns with reports of gang rapes like factory output—steady, relentless, and numbing in repetition."
"The rapes have become so common that they are reported like the weather. Heatwave deaths. Flash flood. Five-year-old abducted, raped, murdered. And like the weather, only God is responsible. Not the rapist. Not the court. Not the police. Definitely not the prime minister."
The Modi government's decision to distance itself from Bill Gates over his Epstein connections revealed a stark hypocrisy in India's political culture. While swift to signal discomfort with international scandals affecting diplomatic optics, the same government remains unmoved by the pervasive brutality of sexual violence against women occurring routinely within India. Gang rapes occur with such frequency they are reported as mundane news, yet generate neither comparable political embarrassment nor meaningful consequences. This contrast exposes how political sensitivity to reputational threats coexists with systematic indifference to domestic atrocities, suggesting that moral outrage is selectively deployed based on international visibility rather than genuine commitment to protecting vulnerable populations.
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