Was just lying on my bed when a
thought made way to my mind and I was hell scared to even get out of the bed!
Born and brought up in a family
where girls are equally treated as guys.
Where rules set are the same for me and my brother; where my parents
introduce me to others with the same pride as they introduce my brother; where
I deserve the same respect, love, education, food as my sibling does. Being born in a family with such liberated
mind set, it comes more as a shock then surprise to see people still looking
down on the ‘so called weaker gender: Female’.
People are debating; people are
protesting trying to bring justice to the recent victim of the gang rape in
Delhi. And I lay on my bed contemplating about what happened just a few days
back!
On one hand there are these
protests happenings, bills getting passed in the parliament of the largest
democratic country in the world and on the other hand I know a girl is getting
raped in some nook and corner of this country.
If this is what India is, I dread
to ever have a daughter.
There is still a section of
society that feels a girl is raped or eve teased because she dresses in appropriately.
These losers need to understand that even a girl in
salwaar kameez is raped. Before teaching a girl what she should wear you
better teach the guys to exercise self-control. How long will you blame the
innocent girls who are getting eve-teased or raped? Is it okay to vandalize
their names albeit they being the victims?
Politicians are trying to pass
newer stringent laws. But is this, what India really needs to change? By
passing laws we are only targeting the ways to punish the
offenders/criminals/culprits. What we actually need to do is make sure we
uproot the crime itself!!!
Is Rape, the best a man can do to
prove that he is superior to a woman?
Every man has to first start
respecting his own mother, girlfriend, wife, and friends. We need to build up an India where each girl
is respected at her home first. Let us
stop telling our sisters, girlfriends, daughters to not wear skirts. Let us not
ask them to get back home by 9.
Let us now tell our guy friends,
boyfriends and brothers to respect each girl. It’s time their mind sets change.
It’s time a girl is no longer looked down as a sex object. It’s time every
girl and every woman be given the freedom and stature she deserves, she wants
and she craves for.
As an Indian, I won’t feel proud
if India wins the world cup again; I won’t feel proud if we win a dozen medals
in the Olympics; I won’t even feel proud if India becomes the best developing
nation of the world.
I will only be proud of India when I see that
every girl lives here without the fear of getting raped without the fear of being
a victim of an acid attack and without getting eve teased. Until then I will
never be proud of my own country!
