Thursday, February 14, 2008

Pondering over Patan

The recent incidents in Patan are really shocking. In this context the worry and concerns of the parents of the girls studying in Primary Teacher's Training College can be well understood. And probably on the basis of convergence of the same predisposition they collectively made a protest.
But soon it turned into a violent agitation. The crowd destroyed vehicles and one of the accused almost got lynched. The police came and tackled the situation.
This could probably be just one example to show that practically it is difficult to categorise a collective behaviour on the basis of a single theory ( Convergence or Contagion or any other) which we often may tend to do.

koustav sanyal, 28015

1 comment:

akshaygupta said...

Dear Kostav,
I am agree with you Kostav, what has happened in the Patan was a shocking event. People also have acted collectively against it, but in my view more serious concern is security of the thousands of girls in future who students staying in different hostel across country.
In the Patan case the power of internal marks was used by the male teachers to suppress the students. In a similar case few years back in working women’s hostel in Jaipur few political leaders were involved used there political power to suppress the women staying there.
There is need for the collective action which is directed towards bringing more stringent laws and norms tailor made for such hostels and more lady teachers ( a minimum ratio can be fixed ) in proportion to the girl student. And proper system to attend such grievance with a mechanism to protect those who bring forward complain of such nature.

Akshay Kumar Gupta ( 28003)