Experts blame fast-paced metro life and stress for drop in tolerance level.
Tolerance was one of the primary virtues that helped us win Independence. But we have not been consistent and firm on carrying on this legacy down the decades. Take for example the murders that take place in this maximum city: quite a few of them happen due to intolerance. Many have killed people over petty issues. And shockingly, in most of the cases, the victims have been brutally bludgeoned to death.
Recent statistics issued by the Mumbai police reveal that 30% of the murders that have been committed till June this year were due to intolerance. Out of the 79 murders committed in the city till June end, 24 were because of petty issues or due to a sudden altercation.
Citing a few examples that give testimony to how easy it has become to claim a human life in this ruthless city, an officer said, “Hassan Bajaher, 65, had an argument with a man over some petty issue in Pydhonie. The accused dragged him from the cab he was travelling in and started assaulted him mercilessly. Bajaher died of his injuries. A murder case was registered.”
In Mahim, a person was killed after an argument that started over the deceased washing his furniture near the accused’s residence. The accused banged the victim’s head on the floor repeatedly till he died.
Ajay Khamkar, 21, was killed by a person when he objected to him sneaking into a queue from outside to buy a movie ticket at Bhoiwada. The accused was carrying a sharp weapon with which he stabbed Khamkar several times.
Experts say that stress increases irritability, impulsivity and mistrust. They make a dangerous cocktail which puts the brain into a state of ‘emotional hijacking’.
“It’s a state where reason fails for a moment and the mind explodes to cause unnatural and irrational behaviour. Such behaviour gets exacerbated in a fast-paced city life,” said Dr Harish Shetty, a psychiatrist.
“The rush of noradrenaline and adrenaline hormones in the perpetrator leads to a momentary lapse of reason. Such persons are one-time criminals and often realise the crime that they commit only after the act.”
Shetty advises that people should identify signs of isolation, insomnia and irritability in a person and seek psychiatric help to ameliorate the condition.
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}