When people start looking at incidents like rape as a spectacle, So what else is left for a sensible person other than being speechless? What was seen in Ujjain, What else can it be called other than an attack on human consciousness?
What happened in Ujjain is impossible for human conscience to accept easily. A criminal raping a woman on the footpath in public is in itself a hurtful thing. What hurts even more is that passersby keep watching it, some of them make videos on their smartphones, and then upload the videos on social media with a feeling as if they have achieved something big! Forget about trying to stop the incident, there was not a single onlooker who at least made noise or called the police helpline number. Even after the incident, no one felt the need to inform the police! When people start looking at an incident like rape as a spectacle, what else is left for a sensible person except to be speechless? Such incidents have happened earlier in cases of murder and other crimes. It has also been seen on many occasions of disaster and human tragedy that instead of helping the victim, people were busy making videos and uploading them on social media.
It can be said without hesitation that this trend has reached its most brutal and gruesome point in Ujjain. If people’s sensitivity remains so dull even at the time of a completely unacceptable crime like rape, then how much hope will remain for justice or humanity to remain in behavior? Amidst this social psychology, it becomes easy to understand why in the last ten years a political purpose of neutralizing the rule of law has progressed without any meaningful resistance. But, people should understand that the way they are becoming insensitive even in the face of the most heinous crimes, everyone will have to suffer its consequences sooner or later. Social consciousness is the motivating factor of law and law enforcing agencies. Its absence leads the society towards anarchy and then barbarism. After all, what else can be called what was seen in Ujjain except an attack on human consciousness?