There are wide-spread protests and lots and lots of write-ups about the recent gang rape of a 23 year old student in Delhi. Truly very shocking and sad. The only good thing about the present situation is that the girl is fighting back to survive and get back her normal self. The protests and uproar too is something. Hope some good comes out of all this.
However, I wish to focus on something which very often gets forgotten amidst this whole scenario: the larger picture. While there is so much uproar about this one incident, there is hardly any talk or news about the 8-year old dalit girl who was apparently raped and murdered. I wonder if there is an investigation, at least half as intense as the one going on in Delhi, in place. At another place in the North-East there was a similar incident but which by and large has made it only to the side column of a local newspaper only. While being equally heinous, why is it that there is such a focus on one and practically nothing on the other similar cases?
While an immediate knee-jerk response would not be an ideal and long lasting solution to these atrocities carried out on women, I strongly support that a sensible education fostering an equal treatment of children right since their early days is most apt. When children are not discriminated on the basis of the sex they belong to, there will naturally be an atmosphere of equality and collaboration. As of now, there is a growing sense of domination and unhealthy competition.
May all those who are deprived of their basic dignity to live life, be equally treated as victims and everyone take responsibility for a better tomorrow.
However, I wish to focus on something which very often gets forgotten amidst this whole scenario: the larger picture. While there is so much uproar about this one incident, there is hardly any talk or news about the 8-year old dalit girl who was apparently raped and murdered. I wonder if there is an investigation, at least half as intense as the one going on in Delhi, in place. At another place in the North-East there was a similar incident but which by and large has made it only to the side column of a local newspaper only. While being equally heinous, why is it that there is such a focus on one and practically nothing on the other similar cases?
While an immediate knee-jerk response would not be an ideal and long lasting solution to these atrocities carried out on women, I strongly support that a sensible education fostering an equal treatment of children right since their early days is most apt. When children are not discriminated on the basis of the sex they belong to, there will naturally be an atmosphere of equality and collaboration. As of now, there is a growing sense of domination and unhealthy competition.
May all those who are deprived of their basic dignity to live life, be equally treated as victims and everyone take responsibility for a better tomorrow.
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