The world as we know it hasn't changed much. The crime still happen as they used to. The sun rises and sets as it used. The only thing that has changed is, perhaps the perspective. The mornings are a little foggy and the sunsets are a little smoggy. Instead of rapes now we have gang rapes. Nothing has changed originally. Things continue; only the modus oprandi has changed.
There have been many girls, women who have been raped in the past many years. Why do women feel unsafe with each passing day instead of the other way around?? And yet after many such incidents it takes a rarest of rarest crimes to open the eyes of the administrators, politicians. They might have still ignored the incident, had it not been for the public protest that followed.
Today the pubic has moved on, the issue has been superseded by other important news. Yes we see people gathering at Jantar Mantar, there are people who really are giving their heart and soul to the cause.
181 is the number that chief minister Sheila Dikshit launched which fails to relieve. Many people are complaining how the late answering of the phone or no answer shows failure of the system.
What people did was protest at India gate, compel the government to punish the culprits severely. They were angry. They wanted Justice, introduction to severe punishments like castration, hang till death, stone to death and laws to hang the rapists. The conception being- fear has to be instilled in the minds of people who think- "sab chalta hai" meaning they can get away with anything and everything.
Briefly writing. A girl is brutally gang raped, thrown out of the moving bus, naked. She is left in the open for hours before help turns up. People walk away without giving another glance. Police have a discussion onto whose station the case would lie. The girl succumbs to various injuries, fights for 12days and leaves the world for a better place.
Following the incident, the public is outraged with the administration.The chief minister, the ruling party, the police, the autos which did not stop, the DTC buses which don't run frequently over that area, and the list is endless of what could have been done by all and what they did not do. The protest did create the government to run the case under fast court track but what about the ever increasing crimes over women? It is getting ever the more highlighted in all media showing nil improvement.
The protest's highlight was to get the Rapists hang BUT what AFTER that? The aim has to be to curb the crime, to prevent the crime from happening at the first place. Though seeing the country united under one cause gives a feeling of patriotism but we as citizens should not evade from the issue. We must work as a force to curb this.
It is TIME TO...
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STOP EXPECTING
Yes the government constitutes of us, it is for us and it is by us.That's constitutionally only. For the past many years we have seen rise in all sorts of crime mostly from the side of the political parties. Every party has come under the scrutiny of law for being corrupt, or any other crime related charge for that matter. So any hope from the government is expecting the Sun to be present during night.
So this is a time we become independent. Learn to defend ourselves. Delhi police organizes self defense classes at various place from time to time. Keep a check for advertisements of the same. Also Krav Maga, an intense form of self defense at Saket is providing free self defense classes on every Sunday. The timings are pretty cool- 11am to 12pm. The basic aim for this is that maximum women learn to defend themselves and being a Sunday everyone can attend the classes.
So this is a time when I, you and we together all join hands to clean our country. Be the change you want to see in others. Contribute some time to a NGO and help them in creating a better world. Little drops make an ocean, so every effort counts.
If the above seems too much for you, then just be a good citizen wherever you are. Maybe you would see huge heaps of garbage in the road but still restrict yourself from throwing garbage. There maybe an elderly person standing in front of you, offer the seat as you would to your parents. Smile, it counts ton. You are lovely. Be simple and never stop believing. These will also help our country develop in a way that may be beyond explanations but yes it would.
