Of course we prefer to look the other way and pretend that nothing has happened. The law will take its own course, we argue. Why should we bother? After all it is not our doing; not our responsibility. But this cannot go on for a long time. This attitude of the Indian society will take its toll. The county will lose its fine cultural image and the foundation of its excellent ancient traditions will erode. In the long run, tourism will suffer and the country will lose revenue. The efforts of the ministry concerned to promote tourism will be negated. It will not be able to promote India as a country inhabited by a hospitable and friendly people. Indians abroad will be looked down upon by the people of the host country and labelled barbarians, boors and bullies. Indians won’t be able to hold their head high abroad with national pride because of the crime committed by a few of their fellow countrymen back home in India against foreign tourists. It is high time punishment for crime against foreigner tourists was reviewed and made more stringent. The punishment should be severe enough to instil fear into the perpetrators of these shameful acts. Some poster campaign or some steps for educating the people generally involved in such shameful acts against the foreign tourists should be undertaken. There is no dearth of means when there is an end in view. There are resources but only the will to act is absent. But things are being delayed which naturally causes concern in the minds of the right-thinking people.