We, the people of a modernized India, bound by the greatest
document of the world- the Indian Constitution- are provided with six well deliberated
Fundamental Rights, that protect us from every possible wrong doing anytime; everything
apart from the occasional slips in the thinking, attitude and behavior of the
people, which is only very frequently; anytime except when heinous acts are
committed in broad daylight, when the perpetrators choose to openly violate the
contents of our great document.
The past couple of days have been nothing but sad,
frustrating and humiliating. Shame can never hit this nation harder than now,
because we have become so powerless that we cannot protect our women. A girl
can be stripped and assaulted by a mob of over 20 people for some god forsaken
reason with the whole scene being caught on camera. And such an incident can
take place on a normal, busy road of Guwahati and continue to invite more and
more people to have a little piece of the teenage girl; a girl who has been
mentally damaged maybe for the rest of her life.
We are a nation where the Khap Panchayat, in one of the most
prominent states of the country, can rule the inhabiting women’s lives by disallowing
them to move out of their houses after 8 in the night without a male escort. And
the ultimate illegitimate administrators (so declared by no one else but the
Supreme Court of India), that the Khaps are, can also openly challenge the
Chief Minister of the state to stop them from passing such a ruling.
Call it Talibani or Draconian, the fact remains that despite
achieving modernization, we remain very backward in our attitude and thinking. We
sit in our couches and think what could possibly be the reasons behind these
men committing such acts, and come across none; ask an extremist, he’ll enumerate
10. And that’s what more than half of
the society comprises of- extremists, chauvinists, misogynists, assaulters,
rapists and other such bastards.
The police rendered nothing but useless unable to even catch,
forget punishing the criminals, and our polity anything but assertive; this is
the justice our women get from this ever-so-magnanimous nation.
It’s just a sad
moment.
I READ IT...
ReplyDeletegood compilation... throwing light on the dark side, something this nation requires to come out of its pathetic state...
NICE
A heinous incident for sure. Ask anyone about it and everyone would be against it. Everyone would 'feel for' it. Then why do these things happen? Is it just Guwahati? How about Delhi? How, for that matter, about Mumbai?
ReplyDeleteThe nature of the incidents would vary. The treatment may differ from a city to another. But the idea is the same. Women are still objectified. Be it a secluded street in Guwahati or a posh nightclub in downtown Mumbai - tell me a place where women are not objectified.
These issues are rooted deep and ugly in one or many of those obscene layers of our society that we, at times, celebrate.