Err...Just to be impartial, how can you be sure that is India? There is zero identifying text.

That wasnt india. Salvo Sports is an Indonesian company, as witnessed by the fact that it says 'Made in Indonesia' on it, and it is widely reported as being Indonesian, not India. I agree it is sexist, but lets not lump all the Asians together.

93 women being raped is a lot of women, and it should be stamped out, absolutely. But that is reported rapes, not necessarily all rapes. There is probably far more then 93. Considering familial 'honour' and its importance in India, i think the number is probably many fold higher.

The rise in the number of rapes could be attributed to a rise in the reported number, not in the absolute number of rapes. The count could actually be going down, we don't know. All we know is that more and more are feeling brave enough to report it. The same logic can be used to show that the numbers you give for the cities are equally suspect.

Rarity is a matter of relativity. 100 rapes a day in a population of 10,000 is not rare at all, but in a population of 1.5 billion (probably more), it certainly becomes rarer. Keep that in mind when saying it isn't rare.

In the United States, a nation of 300 million, 83,425 rapes were reported. In the United States,every 6.2 minutesa woman is raped ... Which is 5 times more than India ... Happy women's day.

Sbrinz is poakistani who has parents in Barngladesh. He is jealous that India is a popular tourist country and no one visit his country.

Yeah Sbrinz you paki BASTARD, stop being racist against India!

Look closely at the cover of the book.

Premi - India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are culturally the same place - or at least they were until the British screwed things up followed by some Islamic extremists in Pakistan including Zia.

A lot of people have family in both countries.

I find this comment rascist and offensive, even in jest.
Please stop perpetuating this on your forum.
It should be deleted.

oh come on, this isn't true at all. india is quite diverse and south indian culture has always been distinct from north indian or bengali culture.

Having spent 3 years in India i think I can safely say there is a severe lack of understanding of the Indian culture in this thread.

Sad..

I'm not disagreeing with you but if a major aspect of culture is geographical then you could probably agree that parts of the Indian Punjab are closer in culture to the Pakistani Punjab than they are to Bengal, for example.

Funny, all countries are usually denying they have something in common with their neighbours (neighbours they see as "enemies")...

But this is ok?

Oooooh, I used the "P" word. Did it get you all hot under the collar? Were your outrage settings going into overdrive? Nevermind the other guy was the one being unabashedly racist. Here's some bed time reading for you.

p.s Sbrinz isn't really from Pakistan x

Someone has stopped me from OTBC banning him. I received this message,

Sbrinz, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Yeah. He's not a spammer. You're not a mod.

HTH

One is a misspelling.
The other is a derogatory term.

Even a like you should notice the difference.

Stop perpetuating your rascist comments.
I would expect more maturity from this forum.
1 person being racist doesn't mean you have to stoop to their level, does it??
Grow up.

I believe Loz was being amusing (I can't spell humerus tonight), & not racial.

Anyway I am not upset, but I would have liked to get rid of Premi, not particularly because he was racist towards me: but he has collected a lot of groans on this thread, mainly by trying to brush over this serious attack, as being an everyday occurrence, and not worth talking about.

Well Premi it isn't everyday that a victim gets her intestines pulled out of her vagina, and thrown away is it? You do know that she died a week later don't you? It was not just a rape, it was a vicious sexual murder with a tool used for loosening the wheel nuts on a bus, a long round-shaped, straight rod. Can you imagine that being pushed into you and then stirred about? That is what killed her, they split her guts.

Paki. Short for Pakistani.
Aussie. Short for Australian.
Brit. Short for British.
Saffer. Short for South African.
Zim. Short for Zimbabwean.
Jap. Short for Japanese.

Are you going to get excited about all those abbreviations, or just the first one, selectively?

As I've never met you, I'm not quite sure why you consider me a " ". Do you just get into abuse for the sake of it? Very mature.

Poakistani - Pokey Stani
Pokey has two meanings
1. Rather stuffy and small and not very nice
2. Jail

In either case it is derogatory to the good friends of Premi to the north of his birth country.

Barngladesh - Barn Gladesh

Implication - Bangladesh is nothing more than a barn. Also derogatory.

As someone who considers themselves an English writer, I'd have thought it was rather obvious. Perhaps a change in career is indicated, if you can't spot very basic plays on words.

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