Mehak Gupta Grover
Sometimes I wonder, how many more Nirbhaya? Why our country, our Government, our judiciary needs a WAKE up call time and again? Our India- known for its supreme values and traditions- has become a place of demons.
Rape has become the forth most common crime against women in India. Despite having the world’s largest democracy, famous examples of gang rape and hangings demonstrate what a perilous place India is becoming for women. Researches show that fifty million cases of female foeticide have been registered over last three decades. And in case, girl gets to survive, child marriage and high level of trafficking still cast a shadow over the safety of females.
According to Trust Law Women Poll, being a women in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia is more dangerous than anywhere else on the planet.
On December 2012, Nirbhaya was gang raped and brutally killed. On February 2016, an Indian woman, after hours of giving birth, was raped in a hospital. On 8th March, Women’s Day, a 15 year old nomad girl was raped and set on fire. On January 2018, brutal gang rape and murder of an eight year old nomad girl astounded the nation yet again.
Once again, the candle marching, slogan shouting were of no use. Instead, our so called political parties, whom we elect to run our country, gave it a name of ‘religion conflict’ for their own bureaucratic drifts. How does religion even come from?
We say ‘Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao’. But why Beti Bachao? Why are we even supposed to make girls weak? By raising such slogans, we are showing our girls how flimsy they are. Whenever there is a queue at the railways or bus stands, why do the hoarding says- for old-aged, handicapped and women. Why our own people are making girls imbecile? In fact, I firmly believe in ‘Beti Padhao, Samaj Bachao’. They really need to be taught how to respect everyone.
Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. Is this feminism making women strong or more feeble? More buttress is required for the one who is inept. First we talk about equality of sexes, then we need support for everything- that’s the misfortune! Most feminists have conflated equality and sameness. And that’s a huge mistake; the sexes are equal but they are different.
In words of Mahatma Gandhi-
” To call woman the weaker sex is a libel;
It is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength we meant brute strength, then,
Indeed, is woman less brute than man.
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior.”
It is our blinkered attitude that has led us to this point- ‘ The weaker sex’ . Every single day we have cases of sexual abuse and rape. Many don’t even make it to the police complaint, as still it is considered as a stigma to even talk about it. That’s what we do. Keep quiet. The horrors that go on in some homes go on and on because of this imposed bubble of ‘don’t talk about it’. Our silence is complicit.
In India, social attitudes are highly conservative. Sex education is left out of mmost school curriculums; legislators feel such topics could corrupt youth and offend traditional values. There is an expression in India- ‘ Raising a daughter is like watering your neighbour’s garden’ or even the worst – ‘It is better to have a thousand sons than one daughter’.
This depicts that the core root of this problem is the very mentality of the uselessness of girls from within the Indian continent.
Bachendri Pal- she became the first Indian woman to conquer the highest summit in the world, Mount Everest in 1984.
Kiran Bedi- she joined Indian Police Service in 1972 and was first Indian woman to do so.
Neerja Bhanot- a young flight attendant who died while saving passengers from terrorists on board at a tender age of twenty two years.
Ninety percent of banks are headed by women as their CEO’S. In every field, women are showing their mark in the society except for one thing- their DIGNITY!
” Shame goes down the nerves
On seeing inhumanity still rules;
Humans need to act like humans
To make the world bloom.”
Love, be humble, be polite, live and let everyone live in peace. Let everyone have their own mark in the world. Let little flowers blossom. “Have enough confidence, to stand with a head high. Have enough humility, not to look down on others”
feedbackexcelsior@gmail.com
Follow our WhatsApp channel