Letters: A collective failure

Apropos Ajit Balakrishnan’s article “Real ways to make sense of India” (January 24), just like Vivek Dahejia and Rupa Subramanya, authors of Indianomix: Making Sense of Modern India, many other Mumbaikars are deeply shocked at not only the needless loss of the young lives of Keenan and Reuben, but also the failure of the bystanders to intervene then. But the real culprit is the collective failure to put in place a more effective policing, crime investigation and prosecution system as well as a faster and more efficient judiciary. The powers-that-be have deliberately crippled the country’s law-enforcement system to keep themselves, and their own henchmen, safe from the legal consequences of criminal acts, perhaps without even realising the consequences for the ordinary people. We must set this right — as soon as possible.

 

Alok Sarkar, Kolkata

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