Delhi Gang Rape

It is an established fact that the urban India has had the lions share  of the increase in India’s prosperity. With prosperity come greater employment opportunities. The bulk of these job openings come from the unorganized or quasi-organised sectors viz. domestic servants, drivers, guards, artisans etc.  And more often than not these jobs get filled by rural and semi-urban migrants.

This interfaces rural India with India’s metro moderns giving increased opportunity to act out their latent fantasies to the former.  Anonymity afforded by the metros emboldens the perpetrators of the heinous acts like the recent gang rape. Such incidents happen with lesser frequency in non-metro cities because the same level of anonymity is lacking in those towns .

Other factors inhibiting such incidents are cultural homogeneity and lesser presence of short tenure transient migrants. That Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai have lesser occurrences of rape, murders & robberies by domestics etc is because of the latter two factors.