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The Hathras rape case and the way it was handles has plunged women everywhere into despair. Will things never change?
Has humanity gone for a toss? The stench of tyranny and despair pervades everywhere. Women have always become victims of sexual violence and physical assault.
We, the women, continue to fight for equal rights. But before fighting for equal rights, we need a ‘safe’ place to live. Does the basic right of every woman to live fear free on this earth really exist?
Another incident took place which shook the whole world. Another girl was brutally gangraped and murdered. Her mother must have thought at least once that it would have been better if she would have killed her daughter in her womb than to bring her in this world, which turned nothing less than hell for her. The young 19 year old became the prey of wolves who tortured her and made her feel shame and ignominy on her being taken birth as a female.
Almost eight years have passed since the Nirbhaya case. But nothing has changed in our society. Many such incidents are happening which are not even reported because of a feeling of disgrace and infamy; heinous crimes against women are on the surge.
Why does nobody give a thought before doing such injustice to girls, women and infants? Is it because of the flaws in our judicial system? Is our judicial system incapable of giving justice to such victims? Why are such cases pushed on for years and years? Why can’t justice in a court of law become more swift for such cases?
Such ferocious and merciless crimes where girls are made paralysed make us shiver and quiver. I must say every mother and every woman has tears in her eyes whenever such ruthless and heart wrenching incidents take place in our society.
Even if the victim survives this brutality against her, would she be given the respect and love which she deserves? No. She would, instead, be blamed for all that happened, and would just get hatred from people. No one would ‘accept’ her after having gone through such a pitiless crime.
Unfortunately, this is how our society functions. Sexual violence and physical assault against women, somehow, have got ingrained in our system. How will we come out from this?
The slogan ‘Beti bachao, Beti padhao’ should be changed to ‘Beta padhao, beti bachao’ as basic etiquettes and humanity seem to be completely missing. Teach your SONS to be better people.
I was pregnant with my second daughter when the Nirbhaya gang rape took place. I still remember how I couldn’t sleep for days; it kept haunting me. My husband told me I should stop watching the news. But that was not the solution. How long could we close our eyes to such injustice?
This time I really want the heavens to fall and stop such inhumanity against women, otherwise every mother would be afraid of bringing a girl child to this earth where she could be raped or beaten to death. Yes, boys can be raped too, but girls are taking the larger brunt of this evil.
Give us a safe environment to live and breathe, where we can enjoy the freshness of peace and humanity. Otherwise a day would come when all the women would vanish and only inhuman and incorrigible beings called ‘men’ would be left on this earth.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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