This post is one of the smaller
posts on the blog. It’s about the DelhiGangRape of a 23 year old Medical
Student. The news of the atrocities of barbaric lust spread like fire in summer.
TV channels, newspapers, celebrities, politicians, social media hid nothing and
poured out all the anger after her anguish. The chills of her torture chilled the people
of Delhi more than the cold air of Delhi winter.
The politicians sticking to their
profession spoke of and about each other. Some spoke of more laws and reforms,
but on the very same day there was a scuffle in the parliament (ministers
hitting and fighting each other literally) and the house was adjourned at half
day.
NGO’s, Human Rights people, Women’s
Rights people and hundreds and thousands of people came down to the streets to
protest. People came down to meet the CM and question her about each other’s
safety in Delhi, but the reply they received was jets of water from a police
hose.
Just today I got a message on my
whatsapp, it read
Dear Delhi,
I know I don’t have your 4 lame roads, and metros, and posh kothis, my
people drive on narrow roads, live in small houses, travel in non-ac locals.
Maybe your winters have made all your hearts cold. My women are safe,
irrespective of their cloths, the time or the mode of transport, because I am
always watching, I never sleep.
Sincerely
Mumbai
I was both shocked and saddened by
this. It’s adding insult to injury. It looks like the Mumbaikars just see this
as a chance to undermine Delhi. Would they really do that? The people of Mumbai
are better than that.
Another, rather popular concept
is that our society tells women what to wear than teaching men not to rape.
Yes, that does sound good, and also seems to make sense. But does it really??
In the two scenes above, we have
looked at two different things,
1. It’s
about Delhi
2. It’s
about men
But we have forgotten the heart of
the matter; the crime.
Delhi might have the highest
number of rapes, eve teasing or other assaults on women, but it’s not about the
place or the people. It’s the weakness of the system that fails to curb or
punish the crime, thereby failing completely to instil any sort of fear in the
perpetuators.
Coming to the second point; there
is no meaning to making the crime sexist. Of course, we live in a male
dominated society and women have been victimised even in this era. In most rape
cases when women come forth to complain or fight, they have been called to be
the reason for the rape, calling them (the victim) to be the reason for the
crime. People have spoken as if the women deserved to be raped, and that’s
where they said that women need to dress responsibly. Women or anyone would
take offence at that. And that’s why there came the expression of “women are
taught to dress instead of men taught not to rape”
Anyone who holds the victim
responsible is surely out of his senses, but there is no reason to make it
sexist. See the crime as a crime.
Why do we lock our doors at
night? To save ourselves from being robbed. Does someone come up and say we
live in a society that teaches us to lock our doors instead of teaching thieves
not to steal? No.. because theres no problem in seeing a crime as a crime
there. But when it comes to rape it suddenly gets sexist. Maybe if we had some
male rape victims or female rapists then the story would’ve been different. But
as Batman said, a criminal is not complicated. Nor is a crime, as long as we
can see what’s in the heart of the crime and not what’s around its perimeter.
That pretty much summarizes how the politicians… No wait.. Why just politicians? That’s how all of us think.
The last few days have been so shameful and disgusting for the democracy of India.
What makes it worse is no one knows what is right and what wrong. It’s true that right or wrong are relative terms, but the events of 5th june really negate every little bit of hope that the common man has in reason and justice.
People come to power only to make personal use of it.
Defining democracy, it is a form of government where citizens elect their leaders to serve them. Over a period of time, the serve has been replaced by rule.
So now, people in power are just rulers and not really leaders or people who come to serve us.
moving on.. anna hazare fasted to bring the jan lokpal bil into act and can be called to have been successful(hopefully
) to a certain extent… but what his fast did was it raised a hope..
he wanted to spread his goodness and started with a few things like yoga research centers and stuff.. all this is cool.. but in September 2009, he bought an island for 2 million pounds!!
How can someone do that? So he has this huge “aashram” in haridwar, has an island where he again has his “aashram”(which I think is actually just a spa
now one cant really point out whos wrong and whos right.. it seems that a few reports and papers
If you ask the bjp.. I guess they would just say “its immoral but not illegal” 
anyway.. so that was the baba’s bad.. what about the government? 
From going to the airport to receive a “sanyasi” to sending cops in the middle of the night and breaking apart a crowd of more that 50k people, does anything make sense? 
everything makes the government look like a confused and desperate flock of crows..
and now we have the political tamasha of everyone digging history, making allegations and hurling stones and shoes at each other.. where am I? where are you? Or where is any citizen of India? long live democracy huh?
