Mother India and India's Daughter

Are we like Ostriches burying head in the sand,

with good sense and sensibilities being lost in water?
In Maharashtra - beef has been banned;
and across Mother India - the screening of "India's Daughter".
Indian women asking if they are better off as cows?
since mentality of men is as rural as its "gaons". (villages)


In the serenity of Nagaland
an alleged rapist has been lynched;
looks like someone's powerful hand;
instigated an innocent's blood drenched.
The man was not guilty until proved
a decision not left to a mobbing brood.

Are these signs of dangerous times,

where truth will just end up as one big debate;

while people fearlessly indulge in crimes

forcing society to forcibly law abate?

Then would we be a civilized nation - 

or is that really a forgone notion?