Delhi minor rape case

A five year old girl held for two days without food and water, and raped.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Doctors-say-condition-of-five-year-old-stable-protests-against-rape-in-Delhi/articleshow/19645575.cms

Those hypocritical two-faced leaders of society who claim that women's provocative behaviour is the reason they are raped ... that they should not travel alone at night, they should dress decently, and they will never be raped  ... will those hypocritical leaders come forward and explain what wrong did this five year old girl commit that she was subjected to such torture? Was she out alone late at night? Was she dressed indecently or provocatively? Was she maybe behaving provocatively or suggestively with her rapist? Did she "tempt" him into his crime?
Do those leaders have any answers for us now?

A rapist is a criminal ... full stop. Do NOT try to justify his crime with reasoning ... and do not let him off scot free, with pleas about his family and his life. If he damages the life of another person, he has to pay the price. And the lesson has to be driven into the heads of others ... that this is not a crime they can get away with.
Sadly that remains the feeling even now ... that rape is not a serious enough crime to deserve severe punishment. Because the victims is a woman or girl, while the perpetrator is a man. And women are apparently unimportant.

African Safari IV

Ngorongoro and the Serengiti

African Safari III

Amboseli National Park

The guide books say this park lies nestled under the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro. The three days we were there, we barely saw the mountain, shrouded as it was by thick clouds.
As we drove out of Nairobi, and along long straight highways, we began to get an idea of the expanse that Africa is. Wide flat plains stretch on either side of the road for miles on end, as far as the eye can see, ending only on the horizon where the land meets the sky. Clear blue cloudless skies for the most part, and glorious sunshine. The weather was glorious on the way out, although we encountered rain off and on during the three days at Amboseli ... rain that sometimes had the driver scurrying to lower the roof of our safari vehicle. At other times, we preferred to let the drizzle in, the clear sight of the flat Amboseli plains and the animals in the distance was more than enough to compensate for the slight dampness.

Amboseli is an elephant conservation park ... and we saw lots of elephants. Starting with our hotel, the Serena Lodge, where as we waited to check in, we saw in the distance, a herd of wild elephants graze in what could loosely be termed the backyard of the lodge. And then every single day ... herds and herds ... grazing among the plains, near swampy areas, wherever there was some tree cover to be found, the elephants found it first.

Also spotted a cheetah the first day ... and then three the very next day ... the three were on a hunting mission near a pack of antelopes and gazelles. It seemed their mind was not on the hunt, for they were half-hearted about it ... and gave up fairly quickly. And we watched it all through excellent camera lenses which brought the animals almost to within touching distance.

Also realised the excellent camouflage the coat of the cheetah provides in the sandy grassy plains of the Savannah. I had read it in geography books, but when I failed to spot the cheetah in a sandy rocky patch, until it actually rose and started moving, only then was I able to appreciate how brilliantly Nature has provided the camouflage for her creatures. 

Another prize spot one afternoon ... a lioness with her two cubs ... barely fifty yards off the track. The park radio is effective ... barely is an animal 'spotted', and the word goes out ... within minutes there are almost forty-fifty vehicles lined up along the dirt track, all with tops raised, as their occupants gaze at the animals and shoot them ... with their cameras. S was happy that his lenses got almost as many looks as the animals did!  And even happier that he got great pictures, both father and son did.

Ostriches were remarkable spots the first, but we saw them every day thereafter, so after a while we stopped taking pictures. The same with the gazelles, antelopes and wildebeest. The clown cranes always excited interest, though ... always spotted in pairs, with their unusual, very flamboyant coloring, they were a colorful contrast to both the green grass, and to the sandy brown plains.