There's NO turning back now

December 31, 2012 15:45

The government and political class would like to have speedy closure by ensuring the "maximum punishment' for the men who grievously assaulted the woman inside a bus as it sped along one of Delhi's busiest roads. Punished they must be. But even if the six are hanged, and even if our legislators, in a fit of conveniently misplaced concern, prescribe the death penalty for rape, the pathology we are dealing with will not be so easily remedied.
That's the editorial on the Hindu. Read

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