In India, the recent surge in rape cases has shaken the conscience of every right-thinking Indian. People were outraged when in December last year, a young girl was gang-raped in Delhi and later died. A similar horrific incident occurred in August in Mumbai when a woman photojournalist was gang-raped. And various such cases which are too many to list now.
India’s image and its development is often tied to its GDP growth, CAD, budget deficit , unemployment rate and other economic factors, the social structure of the country is another factor that is often considered but the fact remains that, there is no conclusion and zilch definite steps taken by the concerned authorities in order to address the issue. In November 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama described the country as ‘not just a rising power’ but one that has ‘already risen.’ This optimism was clouded by the findings of a poll conducted by Thomson Reuters in 2011, according to which India is the fourth most dangerous country in the world for women. Women are threatened by multiple forms of violence including burnings, acid attacks, beatings and rape.
Many people say that women should not wander on streets after 8pm or should not go to night clubs and should not wear short clothes, this all arouses men, is that true? So if a man sees chairperson of UPA Sonia Gandhi at 11pm on a lonely street in short clothes, will that man take turns to rape her? No, he won’t, because he would be afraid about the consequences. So the fact is it is not about clothes or the place or the time, it is about lack of action against the culprit, it is about the attitude of police force, it is about the weak implementation of laws governing the protection of women and the loopholes that exist in our system.
Every time a rape incident takes place, the authorities are immediately out there framing new laws, pretending to implement them, ensuring security and safety for women. The police officials, or should I say, ‘eid ke chand’ would be seen every here and there. And in not more than 10 days the issue, the concern, the laws (like many others) and their implementation, all subside till the country sees another such case being registered and the process continues with the newspapers declaring the count, as proudly as an army official would count his medals, 2,500,000 (arbitrary) and counting…
2013 has seen a flying start in the capital with similar scenes playing all over the territory with 181 cases reported just between the New Year’s eve and the day of love February 14th making it approximately 4 cases a day and a whopping rise of 558% of rape cases.
Is anyone listening?
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