Proud of our ancient history,
rich culture and fierce warriors, aren’t we all? But, it makes these a very
shallow claim when you have half of the population treated like slaves, and to
make the figure modest I am not even referring to our dalits or downtrodden
population. In a span of every 22 minutes a woman (mentioning age is
immaterial) is supposed being raped in India in every corner. The perpetrators
are true Indians (pun intended), as they do it irrespective of caste, colour,
creed, or economic disparity. They not only commit this flagitious crime but
end up murdering them brutally. So the question – should we really be proud of
our so called culture and glorious past with these barbaric species roaming
freely in our society.
We try to have a respite that
there are other countries, developed countries like USA or Sweden that has more
rape cases than us but what we don’t consider that more than 70% of our rape
cases don’t even get registered. Counting every case we might turn out to
represent the entire population of many European countries. Literally, shame on
us!
Enough of foisting every problem
on the government and crying foul about not-so-stringent policies against rape.
Instead, it is time to look inward and dig into reasons and finding ways to minimize
if not decimate it. Some of the reasons are
Sex – basic human need: If we consider Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,
sex falls into the most basic i.e. the physiological needs. The stronger sex
whenever finds an occasion preys on the weaker sex. Point taken, but isn’t that
what animals do. Considering our species to be the most intelligent and an
ability to live in a society unlike other animals, we ought to have a
differentiating factor and stop predating on the already dreaded gender.
Moral degradation: When we scream vociferously about educating India,
what we don’t take into consideration is the wholesome education including
moral values. Majority of the rape committed are not by strangers but the very known relatives on whom one can trust blindly. The world has gone to the dogs. There has been a visible degradation with more and more
eve-teasing, deliberate nudging at market places or passing lewd comments occurring
every other day. Small towns are not left behind. The question again – shouldn’t
schools and families take an honest responsibility of sowing the seed of
morality and a sense of culture that nurtures the female population rather harassing
them.
Economic and Educational disparity: if we look into cases of recent
rapes we reckon that most of these are committed by cab drivers, guides, daily
labourers or people with meager income and low educational background but wide
exposure to variety of people with extremely rich to not so rich background. They
find their prey either on their occupational stint or target by constantly
following them. A report has also mentioned that the disparity frustrates the
perpetrators and motivates them in getting into such wicked crime.
Legislation against legality of prostitution: India doesn’t allow
prostitution giving a basic argument of it being against the tenets of it
cultural fabric. We must realize that with constant urbanization, there has
been a huge amount of mobilization from one corner of our nation to the other. Majority
of the chunk that leaves its native place for months and sometime for good
years to earn bread live as a single despite being married for their savings. They
have their physical needs and need it fulfilled. Prostitution being illegal,
they resort to illegal activities of enticing women or sometimes rape. It is
high time that government took a heed into the matter and came out with an
appropriate measure.
to be continued...
No comments:
Post a Comment