Violent India
India isn't the peaceful, tolerant country that it is often portrayed as, something I began to understand when I was there last December. I witnessed a propensity for physical abuse where beggars are beaten for sitting in the shade of a shop awning and rickshaw drivers on meagre earnings suffering at the hands of their wealthy passengers. Of course on the other hand it's likely that the beggar was a thief and the rickshaw driver was taking advantage of his unsuspecting passenger. The picture I had in my mind of peaceful Indians was only contradicted after I arrived there. It seems that stories like the one below don't often get the airing they deserve and there's many sides to any one story. I for one am with Bill & Ted when they said "Be excellent to each other" - wise words.

Genocide in Gujarat, by Martha C. Nussbaum