Photo for representational purpose Photo for representational purposeIf reports are to be believed a 35-year-old man’s badly mutilated corpse was discovered on a busy stretch in south Delhi, who might have been run over by multiple vehicles. These are merely the most recent two reported incidents of absurd, apathetic bystander responses in big cities to helpless victims clearly in need of urgent response. There are also cases where bystanders produced videos as a person was committing suicide, a lower caste man was being flogged and a victim was getting molested. These incidents call into question how desensitised we as bystanders have become to ignore the dire need of victims of violence and accident. Still, people are too afraid, too caught up in a warped thinking that encourages cowardice and chickening out from responding.

Source: Indian Express February 18, 2017 12:41 UTC