It was expected. The government feared riots if she died in the Delhi hospital. So they ferried her off to Singapore. Now that she is dead, the agitation will die slowly too. India is well known for 'forgive and forget'. After all, what have we remembered? The riots and bombings? The terrorist attacks? The ill managed aid at natural disasters? We get angered when we something is staring at us in the face - like the girl fighting for her life in the Delhi hospital. But we forget soon enough. Now that she is no more will the protest marches, candle lighting continue beyond a week? I don't think so. Because people have a life to go back to. And this was just one girl. There are so many more getting raped, molested, humiliated, stripped, murdered, kidnapped, right this instant when i am writing this. And we have know about them for years. But have we done anything? Have we taught our children to respect women, our girls to fight for their rights and not keep quiet in the shadows? No. And we never will. Because these things always happen to someone else, not us. And if this is the condition of the national capital, who is to say what happens in the other parts of the country.
So the agitation will be quiet in a few days, the government will go back to debating vitally important issues such as whether the movie 'OMG' hurt religious sentiments, or whether the song 'radha likes her body' did that. And nothing would have come off the poor girls death. She would be just another name in a list of thousands that are brutalized every year.
There are so many people talking about it. Has the government done anything actionable till now? O ya, they want to release the rape database, shame the rapists etc etc. Any pray tell me whose names would be there on that list? considering 90% of these criminals would be related to the politicians, nephews, sons, cousins abusing their power over hapless women. Would they add their names and release it? Not in a hundred years! So what is to say that this database would not become another channel to abuse the government's power? Who'll add names to this database? The politicians? The policemen? Who verifies that the names entered are genuine? Or innocents would be sacrificed for someone else's misdeeds?
They'll put extra security in buses? Like all the rapes happen only in buses! What brilliant reasoning! And this security for how long? a month? 2 months? Then those guards will be called off to provide security to some useless MLA for status reasons. And the girls may go to hell. And what about cases where the guards participate in the crime. We have had many incidents of policemen and military men brutalizing women. So where is the security?
The point is, women in this country will NEVER be safe until we have a major culture and political change. It's the responsibility of EACH one of us to teach our children the value of an individual not based on their gender, caste or religion, but just for the people they are. We must teach them to respect each other and fight for everyone's rights. Not cocoon them and tell them it's not your fight. It is!
We need a government that is strong enough to take a decision and not dilly dally endlessly debating it to shreds. Comments from politicos like Mr. Mukerjee have shown us their mentality in any case. We need a government that is open minded, free thinking and citizen oriented. Out with the nincompoops I say. Strip them of their privileges, the freebies, the security and let them live a common man's life in the jungle that our society has become. I hope they are eaten by wild animals like the ones who ate the unfortunate girl on the bus.
So the agitation will be quiet in a few days, the government will go back to debating vitally important issues such as whether the movie 'OMG' hurt religious sentiments, or whether the song 'radha likes her body' did that. And nothing would have come off the poor girls death. She would be just another name in a list of thousands that are brutalized every year.
There are so many people talking about it. Has the government done anything actionable till now? O ya, they want to release the rape database, shame the rapists etc etc. Any pray tell me whose names would be there on that list? considering 90% of these criminals would be related to the politicians, nephews, sons, cousins abusing their power over hapless women. Would they add their names and release it? Not in a hundred years! So what is to say that this database would not become another channel to abuse the government's power? Who'll add names to this database? The politicians? The policemen? Who verifies that the names entered are genuine? Or innocents would be sacrificed for someone else's misdeeds?
They'll put extra security in buses? Like all the rapes happen only in buses! What brilliant reasoning! And this security for how long? a month? 2 months? Then those guards will be called off to provide security to some useless MLA for status reasons. And the girls may go to hell. And what about cases where the guards participate in the crime. We have had many incidents of policemen and military men brutalizing women. So where is the security?
The point is, women in this country will NEVER be safe until we have a major culture and political change. It's the responsibility of EACH one of us to teach our children the value of an individual not based on their gender, caste or religion, but just for the people they are. We must teach them to respect each other and fight for everyone's rights. Not cocoon them and tell them it's not your fight. It is!
We need a government that is strong enough to take a decision and not dilly dally endlessly debating it to shreds. Comments from politicos like Mr. Mukerjee have shown us their mentality in any case. We need a government that is open minded, free thinking and citizen oriented. Out with the nincompoops I say. Strip them of their privileges, the freebies, the security and let them live a common man's life in the jungle that our society has become. I hope they are eaten by wild animals like the ones who ate the unfortunate girl on the bus.
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