A deafening silence which cuts
across the cacophony of millions of voices; a bleeding heart which pours out
through shocked and teary eyes; numb hands which fail to hold trembling legs
bear witness to the helplessness that the Woman of India feels today.
Unwanted
as a child and often defiled.
Likened
to a burden; often causing life to darken.
Ostracized
for speaking her mind, often silenced for not following the daily grind!
Mandated
to dress a certain way; though often undressed like a prey.
Yes, that is what a woman is looked
upon as in our society. A pretentious, hypocritical and obnoxious society where
men do not think beyond their unruly repugnant magic wand that hangs between their legs; a society where
often women look upon other fellow women as mere beasts of burden!
As if the notions of a woman born
to only cook and bear children, that too only male; weren’t offensive enough
that these infuriating progenies of God, as men like to think of themselves,
had to go around defiling the sanctity of a woman, the same gender that gave
them life! That’s not all; any form of protest that women dare take up is as a
rule always met with apathy from the ignorant and dimwit authorities. Well not
surprising considering they belong to the same sullied social order!
As if the long list inculcating the
appalling numbers of female feticide, repugnant traditions of dowry and gory
dowry related deaths, anecdotes of intolerable khaps demeaning women for their
false prestige, society’s lesson teaching mentality in the form of acid
throwing, sexual harassment and domestic violence weren’t enough that now we
live in a country where a woman protesting for her rights is lathi charged by a male constable. That’s
not all what is more condescending and inexcusable is when that gets termed as
collateral damage by the snobbish authorities.
Life of women have always been
dispensable in our country; either in the family where she is born in or the
family of her in-laws who by the way are of the notion that they and their sons
are God Sent. Then there is the wretched society ofcourse and now the dynamic
trio of police, politicians and judiciary.
It is difficult to explain the
amount of repulsion that women in this country have felt over the years and
more so as the events unfolded in the last week or so. A pseudo-democracy, a
sham of a country and a hoax of an administration make up this despicable
nation of ours. There is no hope for every step we take will be curtailed; will
be curbed for India as a society didn’t and still doesn’t care for its women. Those
that try to pacify the rattled souls by beginning sentences with I too have two or three daughters must
be told that Indian women do not buy this line of theirs. We know we have to
fend for ourselves and in the event of a situation where we are in danger nobody
would be there to help us; not even the people
with two or three daughters!
A country where after the recent
horrendous incident certain people still dare blame the girl for being
nonchalant by going for a movie at night or boarding that private bus; or going
out with a guy who is not her husband; cannot expect to see the dawn where all
is hunky dory for women.
India is a failure when it comes to
even giving its women folk the dignity they deserve. Reality check- we are a country where a 3
year old is also raped. Well I think that says it all about our perverted
society and about where it holds the fairer sex. As long as the thought process
that having a third leg puts you in a higher pedestal in the society thrives;
women in India will never get the position that they deserve and history of
incidents such as these would keep repeating like clockwork, much to every woman’s
horror!