License to abuse and rape

First day of Navaratri today - Looks like India is the worse place to live in the world for women. Men worship women as goddesses and also abuse them with no regard for their rights or respect.  

The recent spate of rapes in the state of Haryana - 13 in just one month – took a few by surprise. But again these sorts of incidents happen all around India, every state, every district and every city has such ghastly incidents every day. All the leading channels had debates and talk back shows soon after every incident. Famous personalities condemn it all in front of the cameras. But is all this noise making any sense to any one. Next day we hear more stories like this and again next day some more stories. Such news articles have become so common that people like to read it for fun express their sympathy and then forget it. 

More shocking is the reaction of the law makers and keepers. Last week the newspapers reported a young sixteen year old girl was gang raped by four men. Not able to bear the shame, she set herself on fire and died. In another case the father of a rape victim committed suicide as he was not getting any justice.

Back in Hyderabad this morning (Monday 15^th October 2012) I started to browse the news articles in the local news papers which include The Times of India and Deccan Chronicle reported 5 crimes across India:  

·         Front Page – Times of India: Bangalore Law student gangraped on varsity campus

·         Page 5 – Times of India – Minor girl raped in front of 5 kids, 30 years old held for rape

·         Page 5 – Deccan Chronicle – Pregnant  women raped and killed by gang of 4

·         Page 7 – Deccan Chronicle - 17 year girl pushed off train by stalker

·         Page 7 Deccan Chronicle – Couple forced to pose for obscene snaps by gang of four men who barged into their hotel room

While last weeks incident is still fresh,today a Bangalore law college student incident has rocked our channels.

INDIA where Goddesses are worshiped with passion and devotion, but women and girls are humiliated and treated with no respect. Some are killed in the womb and if they are not killed in the womb then what awaits them is a nothing but hell. Women are branded as the keeper of the family's honor they don’t have any form of freedom. Any unwanted incident happens to them they suffer and they are blamed and they are the ones to bear the consequences. This is what the recent stories tell us.

Like usual instead of taking prevention measures and getting tougher laws, our senior politicians and bureaucrats advise women should not be working after 8pm, and should wear appropriate clothes! Some further  advised “don’t wear this or don’t wear that. Be comfortable, but at the same time, be careful about how you dress.... blaming the western culture blindly  they accused the west for causing such crimes to happen.

In another incident recently the local village council leader came up with some great solution to rape. He feels early marriage would put a stop to rapes.  "I believe this is happening because our youth are being badly influenced by cinema and television. I think that girls should be married at the age of 16, so that they have their husbands for their sexual needs, and they don't need to go elsewhere. This way rapes will not occur," adding to all this is that a chief minister from the ruling party calls these rapes as a conspiracy to defame his ruling party… (wonder who would do that???).

 

Some say that the way women dress and womens clothing has a lot to do with a man;s behaviour towards her. In one way we are talking about equality of both sexes and on the other side we agree to things like this. Does it mean that a women covered from head to toe will not be molested, raped or abused ever? 

My question is How does all this apply to a minor who has been gang raped recently?????  

Will dressing “carefully” guarantee safety and respect to a woman’s integrity? And what has “adopting the west” got to do with a man’s psyche that thinks of women as mere sex objects? Why are woman be blamed for being abused? Its not lack of rules or stricter laws, its all about the implementation of the so called laws and imposing punishments that is lacking. Women again face the second assault in the police stations and court rooms and his is worse than the original assault. 

Did all our fellow Indians learn to respect the opposite sex - or are we just letting another day go past. There is no point in faking devotions by installing Durga Mata Pandals all around the cities to show this when we cannot honor her manifestation