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Why Are We Obsessed With The Epstein Files When Our Own Backyard is a Graveyard For Justice?

The internet is on fire over the “Epstein List”. Threads, theories, outrage. Everyone suddenly horrified by the moral rot of Western elites. But while we dissect horrors across the ocean, have we bothered to read the headlines from our own country this week?
The present reality tells a chilling story.
Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a convicted rapist sentenced to life, has just had his sentence suspended by the Delhi High Court. He walks out on bail because his appeal is pending. The survivor lives with the trauma forever. He gets a pause.
The Hathras case, which shook the conscience of the nation, has ended not with justice but with silence. Three of the four accused Ravi, Luv Kush and Ramu have been acquitted of rape and murder and are now free men. Only one was convicted, and even there, rape charges quietly disappeared.
Prajwal Revanna may be behind bars now, but let us not forget the larger truth. His father is out on bail. It took thousands of leaked videos, public outrage, and an international flight before the law finally stirred. Justice did not act swiftly. It was dragged into motion.
Meanwhile, Gurmeet Ram Rahim and Asaram Bapu have turned prison gates into revolving doors. Parole. Medical bail. Temporary reliefs that appear whenever political or personal calendars demand them.
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh faces formal charges of sexual harassment, yet remains comfortably free. Our champion wrestlers wait. And wait. And wait. Justice moves at a pace slower than their endurance.
If hope still flickers, it is only because of rare moments of judicial courage. Judges like Justice B. V. Nagarathna, who overturned the remission granted to the Bilkis Bano rapists and called out the abuse of state power. Eleven convicted men were sent back to prison, exactly where they belonged. That moment reminded us what justice is supposed to look like.
The Epstein Files are a horror story from elsewhere. What we are living through is worse, because it is ours.
Acquittals that whisper away brutality. Life sentences that dissolve into bail orders. Powerful men who treat punishment as a temporary inconvenience.
Before hunting monsters in Hollywood or Washington, ask a harder question. Why are the monsters in our own districts getting bail, parole, and benefit of doubt so easily?
Justice does not collapse overnight. It erodes quietly, order by order, case by case, until outrage becomes louder about foreign scandals than domestic failures.
And that should frighten us far more than any list leaked from across the ocean.
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