Look, I’m still an old-school sexual predator. I act alone, I perform the act and slink away into the darkness—the concept of gang rapes, not my style—but this new generation of abusers, they’re level of psychopathy/sociopathy… picking on kids, in a school. I would never touch a child… I’m not inhuman, even Kolkata, the violence, that preceded and followed the rape, ending with murder, the trend is dangerous, because there’s so much cruelty that accompanies the rape.

I guess you’d have to dig deep to fully understand such sick minds—when institutions like schools and hospitals are targeted you know the system is beyond repair.

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That juvenile in the bus, back in 2012, I mean it’s not one man working alone getting his rocks off, this was six men taking turns. But he, all of 17, inserted the jack, destroying Nirbhayas intestines. 

They let him out, he’s 29 now, up to no good, I’m sure.

You have to marvel, at how inactive we are by way of stringent laws, take the Middle East, our brethren are tied up in the middle of the street, lynched, lashed, for all to see—lobotomised, in some places. Capital Punishment with a capital C. Those guys truly learn their lessons—what are our lawmakers doing? What can you expect of Parliament, when 46 per cent of the sitting MPs have criminal records, 25 per cent of which are serious.

Let’s face it, this nation just isn’t sensitised to deal with violence towards women, and it’s not just the patriarchy, even your lady ministers, not one has spoken out, not one has spoken to the family—the complete lack of empathy… absent.

“Why did the girl go alone into a deserted seminar hall?”

Same old cold-hearted echoes. 

The refrain never changes… 11 years ago they asked, 

“Why did the girl get into a bus”. Last week, “why did she go into a deserted hall?”. It fascinates me how a rape so quicky goes into a dark hole 0f “blame the girl”. The social ostracism that follows every one of the annual 35,000 rapes. “Why was she alone at night?”, “Why was she skimpily dressed?”, ‘Why did she get into the taxi alone?”

Call me a criminal, call me “sick” in the head, and I am, I admit, but you know how it is… if there’s no impediment, no punishment, no deterrent, we’re gonna go on.

I’ll put it simply, two weeks after Raksha Bandhan, the horrendous heartlessness, the humiliation, the horrific crimes will continue… frankly in this country, for women, it’s raksha bandh.

Rahul daCunha is an adman, theatre director/playwright, photographer and traveller. Reach him at rahul.dacunha@mid-day.com