A shameful Act.......

My country has been shamed once again by the dastardly act of few people. Once again the innocence, honour and prestige of a woman has been tarnished and demolished by some monsters. Once again the country where women symbolise and worship like Godess has been ashamed on the cowardly act of few people on a defenceless woman. Once again a woman has been raped in the state of brave shivaji who always respected and honoured women. Where are now the people like Thackreys who always talk on the issue of Maratha prestige? My question to them is why are they silent now, why not have they done anything to secure women in their state. 

Rapes are being reported from the capital of India and other parts with alarming regularity. Everyone from little girls - six month old children's rapes are becoming routine now - to grandmothers are raped. Age is no barrier. We have become monsters and women are not safe even in their own houses. People are waiting for a chance to abuse women in any case.  If the leading newspapers were to announce tomorrow a new disease, which over the past year, had afflicted from 3 to 4 million citizens, few would fail to appreciate the seriousness of the illness.  Rape has become a social disease especially in our country.

Many a times it has been argued that women invite rape by wearing western dresses or by mixing in with people. I strongly condemn and ridicule this theory.Under no circumstances is a woman at fault for being raped.

What do we think? Should women carry all the responsibility for making sure they are not raped? Should women be covered from head to toe and locked up in their homes, so that they are not raped? I, personally do not see any merit in these type of arguments. These are the arguments given by some people who themselves not respect women and in a way help these rapists.

A woman when raped not only suffers physically but goes through a lot of mental and social trauma after the incident. The ghost of it never leaves her throughout her life. Everytime she sees a person she sees a rapist in him. How would you face a mother whose 3 yrs old daughter has been raped, how would you console a girl who has been raped by her own father or uncle. Why only rape when a girl has been teased by some people on the road, it takes a lot of time to come her out of that shocking incident.

When I read or hear about these kinds of cases I feel what is wrong with us. Why do not we respect women? If we can not give women their due respect, then we do not have any right to disgrace and disrispect her for any damn reason. Let we do not turn up into a male chauvinist. Let we respect women as equals and change our society and nation into a great nation as the saying goes…. “Respect for a nation lies in the respect for its women”

In the end I would like to say only this ……..

नारी तुम केवल श्रद्धा हो विश्वास रजत नग पग तल में ,

पीयूष स्त्रोत सी बहा करो जीवन के सुंदर समतल में |

By:

Uttam Sharma