Her right to die can possibly be debated but can any sane person debate her right to justice? There is a lot to be said about how we have become completely used to the way society is treating cases like Aruna Shanbaug or Bhanwari Devi. It’s sad that a woman has to think twice even before standing up to a crime.
In the last decade the world changed a lot. A tyrant like Saddam Hussein was killed in public, mass murderer Osama was captured and shot dead, India’s population increased by a few millions, Apple Inc’s liquid assets increased more than the US’s government – but marriages in India are still ‘arranged’. The age-old formula of a formal family gathering to exchange pleasantries, along with food that is high on cholesterol and blocks the arteries is still in practice. Praising each other’s under achieved, over grown families they then send the children out to ‘talk in private’.
The sad part is that while all this has been happening, the law makers have been sitting on the side of the road and watching the melodrama. Talking about the citizens, they are least expected to help anyone.
The 37 year old woman showed tremendous courage to come out and lodge a complaint against the brutal crime she suffered. However when that happened the society including a cabinet minister blamed her for partying late into night.
After all, today his results were declared and he had topped his class with flying colours. He was eager to tell the news to his parents and see happiness on their faces.
This point of view, as we clearly know it, isn’t restricted to villages and the less developed areas. It’s not that the answer would have been much different if put to a woman getting into her SUV outside her home in a posh South Delhi locality.
Shifting focus from the agitating Rahul Gandhi to a female journalist, who was trying to get bytes of a group of young men to get the youth’s perspective on land acquisition.
The Supreme Court verdict was unambiguously directed at the role of Police and that of Ramdev and hinted towards the role of the Administration.
In my opinion, nobody ‘’really’’ wants to participate in wars, crimes, destruction, neither does anyone want to hurt themselves but the situation, circumstances mislead the perturbed individuals to complete haywire and then they instigate the whole notion of revenge, Jealousy among other fellows and develops Vengeance in them.
Usurped from the quiet confines of the beach-lined city of Chennai, here I was- a stranger amidst more than a million people, not knowing them and fearing not being known. Delhi was so not the city I had envisioned it to be.
