Work, life, balance
In Ghaziabad, some 20,000 entrants came to write the entrance test to join the police force. Finding the test ‘too hard’, hundreds of them started rioting and molesting women. Disturbing statement by a local resident: “These men will become gangsters if they do not become policemen.” More here.
Modal Minority has these posts on the job situation elsewhere - in Nigeria and in New York.
This could be the funniest and the saddest story of 2006.
Comment by km — November 8, 2006 @ 5:04 pm
This is so sad. That its okay to do this? That they’re that close to being so-called protectors of the law? Its as Nadine Gordimer said in your post above: “But I don’t think the answer is more police. I think we must look at the reasons behind the crime. There are young people in poverty without opportunities. They need education, training and employment. That is the way to reduce crime”
Comment by Artemis — November 11, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
Better to be a gangster than becoming a policeman and also be a gangster.
If poverty is responsible for crimes, how do we explain the behaviour of Manu Singh, Santosh Singh and Vikas Yadav- paucity in normal human dignity, perhaps.
Comment by Mahadevan — December 29, 2006 @ 10:02 am