29 December 2012 : All i can watch on news channel, social networking sites or in my neighborhood is long faces. With no exception, everyone is distressed and anguished with the news of a 23 year old girl -nicknamed "Amanat" passing away. 16 December it was when she was raped by 6 men, i will prefer demons, inside a luxury bus, beaten by a rod and finally thrown out of the running bus. It is one of the most shameful and brutal act i heard in my life. Just thinking about the situation she has fought through gives me a shivering. I don't know how many of us would have surrendered in such a situation. She fought, and fought till her last breath with those frightening memories, with the mental and physical sufferings, with the evils against women security through the voices of thousands of people protesting all over the country and finally fought with the death.
She is a hero to me and the fight she started must not stop till every girl and woman feels safe and respected in this country.
It took a gang-rape , beating by a rod till the victim's intestines came out of her body in the National Capital - Delhi to bring us out on road. If it would have been in some other city, I wonder people would have been even aware of the shameful act. We are living in the society where Police rejects rape case questioning the victim's character and offer her money to take her case back. She decides to suicide rather than living in shameful society where everyone will challenge her dignity (a case from Patiala). And if Police happens to register the case, even after the hearings of fifty witnesses and filing of thirty page charge-sheet, a politician will come and call victim A PROSTITUTE (a case from Kolkata). Or to the worst when there are thousands of people protesting down on streets against the rape case, they will be lathi-charged and will get all media coverage required but the respected Prime Minister will take two days to come and address the people.
It took anti-incumbency, previous awakening of mass by social-activist Anna Hazare, increasing rape cases every day, this brutal Delhi rape case and a very good coverage by our media persons to light this fire against this evil of our society.
Losing her in such a way is a black-mark on our society. I am too distressed as you feeling the same anger and anguish as every sensible human being is feeling, but somewhere I am having a fear. A Fear : what if this fire stops without bringing a change ??? I would like to call it as our only bet. Once people get back to the old attitude - "Yeh India hai..!!! yahan kuch nahi badlega.." there will be no coming back. In the corrupted world we are living, we can't expect Mahatma Gandhi and Anna Hazare to to take birth again and again and awaken up the mass. I don't know how many gang-rapes and molestation cases again it will take to raise the matter of Women security and respect.
What will happen if it will just become a political issue to be discussed before public during elections??? What we can can expect from politicians when some of them are charged with rape cases themselves and we are sending them to the Parliament. Enacting new laws or amendments, however tough they be, will not do anything worth because the society will still have the same Police which will not register the case and same politicians who will support the rapist by calling victim -a prostitute. Rapists will always find their way out with the police and political support. Need of the hour is to keep this fire burning, keep fighting till the end.
We are a family and we lost a sister. We will not forget her and we will not forgive any of the rapists living in this country.
Let's take an oath that this fight will never stop until respect for women starts running in our blood - that the cause will not be lost with the New Year's hangover and resolutions -that we will fight till the last breath and pass this to our next generation as a matter of great value.
Let's bring the change so that our next generation will never have to encounter a gang-rape, and tell them - gang-rape as worst and filthiest of the crimes and Women respect as the highest of the concerns.
Let's just know but also follow-
यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यंते रमंते तत्र देवताः। यत्र तास्तु न पूज्यंते तत्र सर्वाफलक्रियाः॥
Meaning : Where women are worshiped, goddesses dwell.
Where they are not worshiped, all actions are fruitless.
Media channels preferred the case over Gujarat elections, Sachin's retirement and India-Pakistan cricket match series- a commendable job i must say. Hope they will keep supporting us till the end in eradicating this evil from the society.
If you agree with me, please share the word.
Thanks,
She is a hero to me and the fight she started must not stop till every girl and woman feels safe and respected in this country.
It took a gang-rape , beating by a rod till the victim's intestines came out of her body in the National Capital - Delhi to bring us out on road. If it would have been in some other city, I wonder people would have been even aware of the shameful act. We are living in the society where Police rejects rape case questioning the victim's character and offer her money to take her case back. She decides to suicide rather than living in shameful society where everyone will challenge her dignity (a case from Patiala). And if Police happens to register the case, even after the hearings of fifty witnesses and filing of thirty page charge-sheet, a politician will come and call victim A PROSTITUTE (a case from Kolkata). Or to the worst when there are thousands of people protesting down on streets against the rape case, they will be lathi-charged and will get all media coverage required but the respected Prime Minister will take two days to come and address the people.
It took anti-incumbency, previous awakening of mass by social-activist Anna Hazare, increasing rape cases every day, this brutal Delhi rape case and a very good coverage by our media persons to light this fire against this evil of our society.
Losing her in such a way is a black-mark on our society. I am too distressed as you feeling the same anger and anguish as every sensible human being is feeling, but somewhere I am having a fear. A Fear : what if this fire stops without bringing a change ??? I would like to call it as our only bet. Once people get back to the old attitude - "Yeh India hai..!!! yahan kuch nahi badlega.." there will be no coming back. In the corrupted world we are living, we can't expect Mahatma Gandhi and Anna Hazare to to take birth again and again and awaken up the mass. I don't know how many gang-rapes and molestation cases again it will take to raise the matter of Women security and respect.
What will happen if it will just become a political issue to be discussed before public during elections??? What we can can expect from politicians when some of them are charged with rape cases themselves and we are sending them to the Parliament. Enacting new laws or amendments, however tough they be, will not do anything worth because the society will still have the same Police which will not register the case and same politicians who will support the rapist by calling victim -a prostitute. Rapists will always find their way out with the police and political support. Need of the hour is to keep this fire burning, keep fighting till the end.
We are a family and we lost a sister. We will not forget her and we will not forgive any of the rapists living in this country.
Let's take an oath that this fight will never stop until respect for women starts running in our blood - that the cause will not be lost with the New Year's hangover and resolutions -that we will fight till the last breath and pass this to our next generation as a matter of great value.
Let's bring the change so that our next generation will never have to encounter a gang-rape, and tell them - gang-rape as worst and filthiest of the crimes and Women respect as the highest of the concerns.
Let's just know but also follow-
यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यंते रमंते तत्र देवताः। यत्र तास्तु न पूज्यंते तत्र सर्वाफलक्रियाः॥
Meaning : Where women are worshiped, goddesses dwell.
Where they are not worshiped, all actions are fruitless.
Media channels preferred the case over Gujarat elections, Sachin's retirement and India-Pakistan cricket match series- a commendable job i must say. Hope they will keep supporting us till the end in eradicating this evil from the society.
If you agree with me, please share the word.
Thanks,
