Modernity has failed to stop deviance

The news that three students of a private engineering college in Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu brutally hacked and killed their principal who merely enforced discipline on them has stunned the country. Such deviant behaviour would have been unthinkable decades ago when India was more traditional, less modern. Modernity arrogantly claims to contract men and women out of traditions and civilise them. But such brutal deviance occurs in modern societies, the US included. 

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