Have been following the Nithari slaughter case with both horror and anger. At one level the case is a reflection of the madness that afflicts some of us and is in some way a universal phenomenon. Such mass murderers do surface from time to time in various parts of the world and are often a subject of curiosity, fear, awe and revulsion. Very soon they fade away from our memories and life goes on. Such cases are few and far in between since a vast majority of us are by and large normal individuals.
The revulsion stems from the manner in which the case seems to have been handled or not handled by the police. The inability of poor migrant workers to have their cases registered reflects the feudal nature of our society. In all societies the rich and the powerful have greater access to state services than the poor and the weak, that unfortunately is the reality. Shamefully in ours it seems that poor people's access to state services is minimal if at all. The callous remark of a senior politician that such incidents are insignificant only reinforces this feeling. That such incidents are much more likely to happen in certain parts of the country as compared to others is a reflection of the different stages of social evolution that different parts of the country experiences at a given point in time.
India may be shining but it shines very dimly if at all in Nithari and Khairlanji.
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