The rape of the five-year-old kid and the ghoulish toys placed on top of her mobile stretcher capture the Delhi psyche. They [the government] send her in a dire state to a cheap municipality hospital without showing any sense of urgency and then fling unhygienic toys on her sheets! But it’s a sweet gesture, don’t you see, even if it defies medical science and why should they send her to an expensive facility when the national leaders have done enough by expressing their shock and horror? Gee, thanks! That should help. You don't expect them to pay for her treatment, do you? Sonia Gandhi wins the prize there for echoing Eliza Doolittle, “All we get are words, let’s have action.” Indeed.

And gestures are all it is about. Two thousand protestors screaming slogans but no one made a collection — do-gooders sloshing in the milk of human kindness but doing nothing more tangible. No hospital came forward, no surgeon said, “We'll take you pro bono.” The papers are a parody. They should be called Rape Express, Times of Rape, whatever. The only one that has got it right is DNA... because it is in our DNA. The male mind in India is a corrupted, rusted, ugly place to be in. Despite all that crap about loving mothers and sisters and putting them on pedestals we have, as a nation’s men, no respect for women. The same day an 80-year-grandmother was raped. What??? It is true.

And a 13-year-old tried to kill herself after she was raped. Welcome to the truth.

Is there a solution? Tough question. How do you change the male psyche —all of it at every level so that lewdness does not pass for comedy, crassness for humour, invasion of privacy for friendliness?

In Delhi this week, the raped five-year-old and union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s wrath over the police allowing protestors to breach his castle are about equally important. Mr Shinde will win, more’s the pity. Some cop will be suspended, ten articles will be published urging reform and also to purge our guilt that we allow ourselves to be led by such a motley crew and that will be that.