On one hand I hear loud voices shouting for justice for the
poor girl who was raped publicly by 6 men couple of weeks back and on the
other hand, 2 more cases have been registered during this time. It came to me
as a big shock that victims of more than 70 thousand rape cases are still
waiting for a decision.
Since quite a few days I am connected to few people from Australia.
They got connected as clients but end up becoming great pals. We often spend
quality time together. Every time we sit to chit chat, they have something or
the other to talk about their love and respect for India and its people. Not
even a single conversation ends without praise for the culture, tradition,
values and other richness of the nation. I cannot explain how much proud I used
to feel hearing those golden words from them. Anyways, I have always heard
about India being praised all around the globe.
Today, I feel ashamed about being a part of such a nation. What’s
more disappointing is that the youth is being suppressed than being supported. I
myself witnessed the huge crowd and the acts of suppression by our own
countrymen.
I totally agree with the thought that I saw in one of the
banners at the protest:
Girl: Don’t teach us what
to wear teach your sons not to rape and respect us!
Our society needs to be reformed at least in terms thoughts.
Rather than just teaching values, we need to teach respect & honor towards
women without whom men can’t even enter the world.
Nice post Ashima,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you.Let such things come out.
Keep it up...
There's been a tendency to blame the women for everything in our country and the fact that their dressing sense is being blamed for rapes is a gross oversight. Sadly, the way they are objectified and "itemised" in our songs doesn't help matters much, though it'd be unfair to entirely blame it.
ReplyDeleteIt all should come from within, from our family values, neighbourhood, friend circle, etc. Doing my bit for the cause and hoping it'll all add up and improve things.