The brutal rape and victimization of a 23yr old woman in Delhi has caused considerable uproar in a nation of 1.2 plus billion citizens (and illegal aliens). It has led to a quickening on social media, boycotts of events, and late night candlelight marches in support of the girl who died nameless to the plethora who support her.
And while these social forms of civil unrest are being conducted, a techie and a human resources (interestingly) professional rape a 20yr. old in Delhi on New Year’s eve.
Doesn’t someone see the satire here. For all those thousands of people objecting to the total disregard of an individual, a handful undo their efforts and put it all to shame. Educated individuals reared in families with women as primary educators and moral barometers act with no conscience. This is indeed a failing of this nation as a whole.
I recently read a tweet that there are 530 million men for 490 million women in India. What would the 40 million men without a mate do? Sadly none of the 40 million would think of living a bachelor’s life. In a supply hit economy, when demand shoots up, racketeering makes its ungainly presence felt supremely.
But the question here is larger than the one person brutalized. Its about the 15000 reported rape cases a year and the countless ones that go under the sheets due to fear, social stigma, or family pressure. It is about the 40 rapes per day that sound more like an engine and its measurement of efficiency than a malignant illness that has spread and rotted the very core of this country.
The question is about a country that is being raped and pillaged by its wardens and directors, by its caretakers and decision makers.
Every instance of a politician corrupting the system is a rape of the constitution and the codes that make up this country. Every instance of the police victimizing the victims of a crime is a rape of the security system that this nation offers its citizens. Every instance of the judiciary misconducting justice is a rape of the civil system that binds the nation together. And we the electorate are party to this evil by either casting our votes for the wrong candidate or not electing to vote at all.
We need to wake up from a nation that is being run as a dynastic political drama to a nation that mobilizes the immense power that is lying dormant because its resources are expending energies in asocial causes or fighting stray antisocial incidents.
The childhood joke “Bharat hamari mata hai, humko kuch nahi aata hai” has turned into reality. We need to break the yolk and learn to walk the path of righteousness ourselves without the steering of a common collective of rogues that harness its people to their own profiteering.
Midnight candlelight marches only increase the carbon footprint of an already burgeoning economy already relying on fossil fuels while decapitating its ozone layer. Its time to rise above the candle and switch on the lightbulb of our intellect and conscience.
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