Slapget: Let's keep a sense of proportion

Harvinder Singh has ample time to consider the consequences of his actions. Remanded to judicial custody, he faces charges ranging from an attempt to suicide to criminal intimidation. On Thursday, he “slapped” Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar at a function in Delhi. Such attacks by individuals on public figures can be motivated by a variety of reasons — temporary loss of equilibrium due to personal distress, a need to be in the media glare, a narcissist conviction that one could be a change agent, even conspiracy — and it would be pointless and also unfair to speculate about Singh.

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