Review: It's thought provoking
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2013
Over the last few months I have become very interested in Indian non fiction ebooks. It is very obvious that Indians have found a venue to express their thoughts, ask questions relating to their society/societies, and are, in a way, working on reshaping their communities. Unlike American books, which try to follow established success principles, Indian books present new concepts, new thoughts, and are calling for new actions.'A RESPONSIBLE CONFESSION :- Who was behind the Delhi gang rape ?' is no exception. The terrible tragedy had made waves around the globe but while media in the United States mostly discussed the appropriate punishment or tried to explain society, culture, and historic patterns, D. Pradap examines in how far every member of the Indian society (he himself included)  could have done "something" by not "looking away."Opposite to another reviewer, who criticized the grammar, I thought that Pradap's language was a powerful element of the book. D. Pradap writes from his heart and speaks his voice and not one edited for the American or other market. Which in a way somewhat relates to the question of the book. If we are to accept others, whether they are women or people from a different country and background, we have to think of them as important, and we have to want to understand them.D. Pradap's voice is about as authentic and moving as can be when he writes:"What actually happened to a woman, was unimaginable and inhuman and that is what makes me also to act on my part with a sense of guilt in my mind, so I took the pain to have an article written on this topic, else what I would have done, nothing at all, all the news and stories to which I confront daily morning via my newspapers of many rapes and harassments, they are just to be read and kept aside and as such I would not make any difference if I would say that I accepted sexual harassment as a common occurrence - outside on the roads, on buses and trains, in the office, outside on the roads, on buses and trains, in the office, even sometimes inside the house..."Yes, it is a long sentence and Hemingway would have never written such, but this sentence  shows us Pradap's true thinking, his thoughts and feelings about this terrible tragedy, whirling through his head... thereby inviting all of us to think with him and step up like he did.I love how Pradap relates his thinking to Gandhi:"... obviously a majority of people will answer "No, who counts the view of a single person in the largest democracy of the planet?" But what if the same thought, the thought that will be of the majority, would also have been of The Mahatma, the father of the nation, when he was thrown outside the first class compartment of the train in South Africa, then definitely the history of humanity would have been different..."And with that, D. Pradap proves that one single person's wish for non-violence matters, that one person can take the first step to change many for the better. I commend D. Pradap for taking the pains of thinking through this extremely difficult topic. Looking forward to reading more of this author's thoughts. I see him as a thought leader, somebody, who with writing and publishing takes action, in a non-violent way, like Gandhi himself. I am very happy to see that this century's new forms of publication can help.Gisela Hausmann, author & blogger