Our tradition makes every grand spiritual idea deeply embedded in even the most mundane daily ritual. Thus, the depressingly long bank queues are fairly orderly. Pic/PTI

Left to the Supreme Court and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they would end the menace of rape by castrating all men. “All for the greater good,” some may say; but this solution is unfair, impractical and has undesirable long-term consequences. Violence against women is an ugly and depressing thing — leave aside for the moment survivors of rape, just being stalked or threatened by an acid attack is traumatic enough for any girl/woman — there are many men who live life without resorting to violent sexual fantasy. Why make them stand on queue for emasculation? And what a long queue that would be. If women were to switch to in vitro fertilisation to perpetuate Homo Indicus (whose merits at the moment are debatable) then what would be man’s motivation to facilitate social cohesion?