INSECURITY
15TH JANUARY 2013
New Year is the time to dream, to hope, to
cherish, wish all of you a very Happy New Year. Although, the title of the blog
is very pessimistic but I wanted to start it in a lighter note. Yes, a brand
new year comes with hopes and renewed dreams but this year compelled me to
think in an entirely different conduit...Or rather I can say the Delhi issue
shook the very base of my human nature. It compelled me to think.. What we are?
What we have become? What mental condition makes a human being do such
atrocious deeds? Who are to be held responsible? Govt? Politicians? Society??
There's no answer to the questions...and no end to this debate…
After this Delhi
incident I am suffering from a different level of insecurity...Some days back I
was going back home from office, it was around 9 at night and I had to cross a
small lane which was completely deserted. I saw 3 men were standing there and
were talking among themselves and the whole area was completely deserted. My
heart missed a beat and for no certain reason I started sweating while crossing
the lane...flashes of Delhi news kept coming back in my mind and I was
petrified...They were decent people and never gave a glance towards me and I
reached home safely..But that few minutes of fear made me think that may be
this insecurity is growing in every woman’s mind and every man is being looked
at suspiciously. There have been massive protests and may be the animals will
be punished but what about other Daminis who
are getting tortured to death..After Delhi issue and after all these protest,
we heard about atleast three more rape cases. So what is the point of all the
protests until and unless our mind set changes…We light ten candles and walk
miles protesting a rape incident but we keep our calm and silence when we see a
woman is being harassed.
This is high time when a massive change in
our thinking and in society is needed. The way of upbringing children have to
be changed. Our sons should be taught that even if women are wearing nothing that
does not give them the license to rape them..Feeling of respect and not dominance
towards women to be imbibed. Protest at individual level should be encouraged.
We don’t need you to influence too many people to join in the protest, if we
just do our part properly, hope a lot will be done. Because yesterday it was a
girl in Delhi, today it was a women of 40 years old, Tomorrow it may be anybody
among us. So, lets just do our part in our society to reduce the insecurity of
women and restore the belief and respect towards men which is being tarnished
day by day.
