India Rapes: Their own worst enemies

"Incredible India" brought in the tourists but as is typical of the Indians, they did nothing about the safety for foreign visitors. For them it isn't that the left hand do not know what the right hand is doing. They just simply do not care and by extension indeed also do not know.

The leading psychologists can provide a ton of research to tell you that Indian men rape because they often got away. Another version of explaining this is the broken window theory of crime. Indian workers in Singapore do not behave like they are back home because the long arm of the law will be upon them in a hurry. All the scare mongering on social media about our women at risk from them is over wrought.

Singapore Indians are very different from those in India. Not for our stay in Dubai, I would never seen this for myself at first hand otherwise. Sometimes you can vomit blood trying to get them to cooperate. They are genius at self defeating behavior and speech. So reading about them in this Asia One piece brought back the memories of  the many encounters I had with them in Dubai. I am grateful I didn't have to deal with them in India.

Flashing red light of familiarity when I read this. These guys never take ownership of anything. I quote from the article.

At the Delhi office of the Indian Association of Tour Operators, executive director Gour Kanjilal said it was unfair to portray India as dangerous.

"Our industry is the first casualty when crime against foreigners is reported in India, but the reporting does not always reflect the truth," he told AFP.

"Tourists should be responsible. They should follow some do's and don'ts."

A state minister in Madhya Pradesh, where the attacks on the Swiss and South Korean tourists took place, told reporters on Sunday that travellers must inform local police officials whenever they move from one town to the next.

That suggestion is hardly realistic for most tourists like 26-year-old Peruvian Marilu Labarthe, who squeezed in visits to seven cities during a two-week trip to the country.

Labarthe, shopping for ethnic trinkets in Delhi on the last day of her vacation, travelled to the country with 11 other women.

"You have to always be careful. And after hearing of these recent incidents, one obviously feels a sense of fear," she said, as one of her companions nodded in agreement.

Good luck India. The trouble with you is that you don't need enemies because you are your own greatest enemies. You are at your best when you make your living outside your country but for India at home to do well, it must face existential crisis like when you were bankrupt in the 90s and the Narashima Rao government acted decisively; like the reckless heroism of your security forces when terrorists attacked Mumbai. Since your existence cannot hang in the balance all the time, your are self defeating and a loser in normal times. Your life is one of hitting bottom coming up not too high and falling to bottom again. Over and over and that is the destiny you have chosen for yourself. Catching up with China is just a glorious pipe dream. Big talk, small action.