She was all over the news. People were on the roads. Candle marches. Statements from politicians.
But, in the end it doesn’t even matter. People have forget Nirbhaya’s Case within six months. They are busy teasing girls on Metro in Delhi. They are busy in acid attacks. They are busy in curbing their freedom. They are busy commenting on their thoughts and propositions.
When we all are busy doing this, politicians also are setting new heights to it. Comment like “tunch maal” was once for laymen and street dwellers. Now this slang has made it into the political diction. One leading daily is campaigning against Acid Attacks on Women. SC has ordered for monitoring acid sale. But do these measures are really effective with the mindset of people.
According to events published in daily newspapers, one can easily note that even after Nirbhaya’s Case and the protests from public, there has been a lot of cases of violence against women. “Khap panchayats” keep on quoting for curbing the rights and thoughts of women. It is a dilemma that the literate, growing, shining India is still have this approach for women. Government campaigns against female foeticide, rules to protect women, systems working for safety of women, women helplines shows how much we all are need to be tamed for being civilized. Recent JNU campus incident is another example which shows that Indian Men are incapable to handle Rejection. When this rejection comes from a female this incapability got mixed with our ideology of women and raise it to a level of Rage. Another example is from the political corridors. When Shobha De, an eminent writer, tweeted about giving Mumbai a stature of new state, some members of a extremist political party got infuriated. They went straight on the roads with placards writing some offensive slogans. Now if you have seen the slogan in the media, I would like to question you that whether it was okay. And if your answers are affirmative then my friends I have to suggest that all of us need to introspect. Get it real-We are a misogynist society. But we don’t want it to be. We want change that is why we have joined candle marches. We were on protest. But most of us still need to understand that women are of same stature as of men.
Don’t raise your voice, don’t raise your hands. Speak to back her up and give her a supporting hand.
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