WORLD AGAINST WOMEN

How many times have we stopped midway from a conversation, only to turn your head and stare at those skinny legs? It's time you stopped that, because it is very annoying for that girl.... READ ON

On The Opposite Sex 

The woman is the most widely discriminated, stereotyped and abused of today. Thanks to a certain class of goons who consider women to be objects of pleasure, the Indian woman fears to keep step outdoors.

If her dress is short, she has the neighbourhood ogling at her. One just cannot stop from looking at each girl in the street bottom to top. It has now become general tendency and even the other passersby to join in once someone starts.

Not to mention the many cases of immoral abuse reported in the media. Thanks to stringent measures, such degrading activities have come to a standstill. She is nowadays prone to harassment both at home and office. Not to mention recent cases of being harassed even while commuting in the once safe Cabs of India.

Few people are not consent with even having women in this world and resort to female foeticide. It takes place, sadly, even today, in rural areas. When she grows up, she is lucky to have completed ten years of schooling after which she is compelled to stay at home and help with housework. Girls in rural households have to work after school. Some even don’t have the fortune to go to school. They wash dishes instead. Soon they are married off. There too, many experience cases of in – laws abusing them. Sadly this is the story in many poverty- stricken urban households too. They are then reduced to nothing but mute spectators.

Girls in India have to return early to their houses lest something happens to them in the dead of the night. Some people really work hard to see to it that women have to look around them as they step out.

Malala Yousafzai is just one. And she is very lucky to survive. What about the others, about whom we do not even know? Thousands of such unfortunate women are present today who have experienced abuse in one form or the other.

Thanks to today’s media-fed commercialization, even Hindi film actresses have confessed to being assaulted in horrendous ways when they were children. Kalki Koechlin, Poorna Jagnathan, Deepika Padukone among many others have voiced themselves against the social evil.

I would like to mention over here the recent passing away of assault victim Aruna Shanbaug, KEM Hospital nurse. She was brutally raped and robbed of her belongings in a dark incident few decades ago. She lay in KEM Hospital ICU ever since in a permanent vegetative state, owning to the nature of the assault. The offender walked scot – free and was charged only of robbery to protect Mrs. Shanbaug’s interests. She left for her heavenly abode few weeks ago.

Why don’t we consider girls as our sisters women as our mothers and so on? Why can’t we just let them be? If she wears a short dress, why do we have to keep on looking at her? Why can’t we just leave her on her own? Perhaps such kind of outlook might work to reduce crimes against women in our era. Is it always that necessary to stare? Most often women choose to ignore all eve – teasing and extra attention.

The government has put into place several laws and stringent policing to make sure anyone with a bad eye goes behind bars as soon as possible. Such kind of measures shall go a long way in protecting women’s rights. Also, self defence using pepper sprays and other such objects is being popularized.

In India, women have many roles. When small, they are a sister. Later, they become wives. Soon they are mothers. Later they are loving Grans. A Woman has enormous responsibility of running the complete house in India. It is she who wakes up before everyone else, cooks food, takes care of everyone, sleeps after everyone – and so  the cycle.

India has evolved from being a matriarchal society to a patriarchal one. We have lost respect in the other sex. The result is the large number of crimes we see today (of course they have lessened now).  If we did not wake up to a solution soon, we would be driven into great problems in near future.