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It's been 2 days since the incident occurred, there is a law against practice of occult and black magic, but... only FIRs have been filed against the offenders. No arrests have been made, yet.
The internet has been bursting since 2 days, about an incident, where a young woman was forced to bathe naked, under a waterfall, in full public view.
Forced by whom? Her own husband and in-laws.
Suggested by whom? A local ‘Aghori Baba‘. (Black Magician)
Why? So she could produce a Male Child.
Where? In Pune.
Witnesses? Many random onlookers.
Who reported? None of them bothered, but the lady herself.
And to imagine her plight, her own husband and in-laws disrobe her, insult her modesty and yet she, was helpless. There was no one she could speak to.
As far as sorcery, witch-craft and black magic are concerned, our country still has to go a long way. We boast of women empowerment, higher rates of girls’ education, fewer female infanticides. But then, the real scenario is a completely different story altogether.
Wonder why isn’t it taught in schools, at a basic level, that the sex of a fetus is determined by the man’s chromosomes. When the female duties of Sanskaar, Shadi and Seva are so well etched in all our minds, why not this simple scientific truth?
The lady in question was being harassed for dowry since the past many years. So you might ask casually, “Why couldn’t she complain earlier? Why now?”
I’ll tell you why. It’s been 2 days since the incident occurred, there is a law against practice of occult and black magic, but… only FIRs have been filed against the offenders. No arrests have been made, yet. Many Women Welfare groups and NGOs are calling out, but the perpetrators are conveniently at home.
What purpose does a complaint serve, if the offenders walk free, every time? Why would she dare to complain, if she knew her in-laws would eventually be released, and then wouldn’t they harass her all the more?
Yes, Laws for protection of women against atrocities exist. But what’s the measure of the punishment handed over? Every day, there’s news about a woman’s face been blackened, she being paraded naked, head tonsured, beaten up, falsely accused, gang-raped…
Ever read a story following these incidents, about the accused being nabbed and put behind bars?
No, I guess. The news ends with the torture of the hapless woman and cases being filed.
For all those pending cases, and the wronged women, the world couldn’t care less.
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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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