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Remember Ruchika case and the tainted cop Rathod? Cases as such are not rare in India. A conscientious(?) student of NID felt extremely indignant over the delay in justice and attacked Rathod outside the court. The student became an overnight hero. But this is also not rare in India. But the rarest of the rare thing happened yesterday when in an interview Mrs.Sharma-mother of that (ex)NID student said "All of us get agitated about wrongs that are happening around us. But we do not go about taking law in our won hands to carrect them. Justice has to be sought in a lawful way. What Utsav did was wrong and he needs to understand that."(ref:TOI) How civil! Now this is not what you expect in India. As a rule when some criminal makes headlines, his family members always justify his crimes or tries to exculpate him in all possible ways. The responses like "my son is not a terrorist he is the victim of a conspiracy", "my daughter was not drunk above danger level when her car ran over 7 people" or "my husband is innocent he didn't rape our maid, it's all her way of black-mailing." has been in vogue. Every other educated man talks in great length about social justice and law and order and all those unattainable ethical values, we promptly excoriate every malpractice in the system. But when the burden to hold those values comes upon our shoulders we shirk. We so love double standards. The cases I cited above are just a superficial manifestation of a kind of moral bankruptcy that is rampant in our society. In such an environment the cases like Mrs.Sharma's reminds us that we are a little off the track.

"Every person carries with himself two sets of morality, one that applies to himself the other to the world"- Bertrand Russell