If what the six rapists did to the woman was the very worst kind of sadism and savagery, the good folks who are outraged by the incident have been scarcely less vicious. From public disembowellment and hanging to castration '" chemical or surgical '" and flogging, urban India has been displaying an amazingly atavistic instinct when it comes to punishment. Yet most of them would nod sagely when reminded that Mahatma Gandhi did not think much of this eye-for-an-eye form of retribution or action. Read the blog