I, as an Indian, am deeply ashamed by what has happened. But what saddens me even more is that while our culture teaches us to respect women, we worship several goddesses, refer to our country as "Mother" India; we rank highest among the nations where women are the worst abused.<p>This has nothing to do with democracy, I believe it is a pure case of rising economic inequality and decreasing sex ratio in India.<p>The protests that we are seeing in the country are just a sign of how frustrated are people with the current political environment in the country. Rather than focusing on development in the country and taking care of law and order, our current politicians are way busy arguing over trivial things.<p>Its even sadder that this case represents the current mentality of an Indian male. And I am not sure how to change that. I am sure new and tougher laws will be made, but how do you teach respect and compassion that our country seems to be missing so badly now.<p>It seems we as a nation are making progress but sadly at the cost of our values.