Can a Couple of Tables Make Bangalore's 'Rapist Lane' Safe Again?

By artappraiser on Fri, 07/05/2013 - 11:58pm |

By Sarah Goodyear, Atlantic Cities, July 3, 2013

1....] The encounters on the lane reveal just how much understanding and compassion can be gained if people have a safe space in which to interact. But safe spaces are lacking in India and many other cities around the world, and so people spin apart into polarized groups.

"Biases work both ways," writes Patheja in an email. "There's unsafe and there's a perception of unsafe. Often the unknown is feared, and this makes it unsafe. In this case unknown strangers who were further distanced by socioeconomic class, language, gender were brought together over tea and samosas. It was an open conversation with no agenda or preset questions." [....]

Without security, there is little civil-ization.

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