6 Olympic medals – India is a
great country, 6 rapists – India as a country sucks, its government is
incapable of protecting its people, police is careless, politicians are
corrupt. Men are disgusting and women horrible. Across news channels and social
networking sites people have shown anger and disgust…which is fair for any
civilian. But what next? We will continue to revoke and protest till sometime
and forget all this after a while. This is not the first rape case, and there are
numerous assaults towards women that might be happening this very moment while
I am writing this piece of thoughts on paper which is bothering me in my mind.
We will all do this blame game and get over within no time. Will lighting the
candle and placing black profile pictures give justice to the girl? No denial
that there must be capital punishment for such atrocious crime, but by the time
government will take action there would have been so many more such cases. Many
will even be going unnoticed.
We will just continue to make
this ill-fated and ill-timed girl even more unfortunate by reminding her that
she is the victim for her entire life now. We will keep asking her and
intriguing questions about this episode of her life, which none of us can even manage
to think to what level of destruction it will cause to her own personality
unless already been fateful to suffer the same.
Yes it feels awful and terrible
to know that we are unsure of our safety in our own country, cities, home,
offices and schools. It is disheartening to even hear something like this
exists, but I think it’s not just the females who are under threat, it’s the entire
community and civilization, it could happen to a man as well and it happens and
It doesn't happen only in India, it happens in other countries too, the
percentage of crime varies and their laws towards the crime differs. It’s the mental
sickness of people which give rise to such crimes. Punishment will create fear,
but will fear be sufficient enough to eradicate this problem. In a country like
India, people know how to play and fool around with law..best examples are
politicians with n number of scams in their resume….So what can we do to erase
this?
What amazes me is we all are
asking for justice by punishing the rapists, but what about the girl? Is anyone
doing anything for her? Are we fighting our own demons or not? If the
government is so incompetent, are we doing anything to sabotage this problem?
Can we not start talking to our teenagers
about sex, misconduct, ill treatment openly and advice them of what is right
and wrong? Can we not make it mandatory in all schools to have a self defense
session for all? Can we not teach our children to respect and behave appropriately
with opposite sex? Can we not have laws to cancel all such driving licenses and
make it mandatory for the drivers, teachers, coaches and every professional to
have a good conduct certificate? No these may not provide the complete
solution, but this could be beginning…I know it’s happening at places but not
everywhere, there should be a demand for mandatory and honest action on such
programs. Every individual makes a country and if we can just talk about the
issues and not do even a bit to improve ourselves…it’s just showoff and nothing
else, we be-fool ourselves.
There are men showing anger at
this incidence but how many of them behave appropriately with their counterparts
in home and work places and how many of them do not get involved in eve
teasing. All answers lies within us. I want to know if there is a man in the
billions of population who will move forward and hold this girl’s hand and make
her start her new life, I read she is no more capable of having a happy
physical married life, is there a man who will still accept her and start a
life may be adopt an orphan and look at the positive side of having a family,
make her realize that world is not that bad and there is still humanity alive? Punishment
to the culprits must be given but we must provide the victims best treatment
and mental counseling to recuperate and start fresh rather than lingering over
what’s happened and making their life more miserable.
I say Moms and elder sisters should educate boys when kids and put fear in them for the consequences when mistreating a girl. If he mis-treats his elder/younger sister then no more bike, pocket money, Xbox for him.
ReplyDeleteAptly said Ms. Tripathi! As long as anyone is dependent on someone else, exploitation in one or other form will keep on happening. Its high time for women's insurrection and total independence all over the world! But, we both know its not going to happen anytime soon because of INFP/ENFP personality type of women which is easily subdued by ESTJ/INTJs. Hence, the scribbling will continue, which is as good as doing nothing! :)
ReplyDeleteTrue, A Very average Indian mentality, as long as we treat the two sexes differently this will continue to happen, a female and male is to balance out the system and not to be dominated or subdued. And scribbling tooo will be as good as doing nothing if it really cant help in changinh perspectives.....
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