nation in mourning

                 DELHI AGITAED...

it was the 16th of December , 2012 when Delhi was witness to one of the most heinous crimes it has ever seen( or is it so?) the question worth asking is that is it the first time that a girl has been raped in Delhi or was it the last time.? sadly neither of it.. it has been more than a fortnight since that brutal incident happened in the capital of India  the news channels and the newspapers and the blogs and Facebook and twitter are flooded with this issue but the sad part is that we don't know why? we have been telling via various mediums that we are agitated and we want a change  because we have seen enough and faced enough but the real truth is that it is because we fear  that what if the same thing happens to us. it is because we are fed up of the system not responding time and over again.( not only on this topic). 

since that day what has been noteworthy is that newspapers have suddenly started carrying an umpteen number of cases related to injustice against women to make a person fed up of reading the same news again and again..

but what has brought about this change. is it this incident ... well if that would have been the case then i assure you every 40 minutes you can find one of those reasons. actually it is because people have started voicing their views. the mass uprising in delhi made people aware of what has been happening in their surroundings out of the blue moon. it is because the youth have done something which has instilled a sense of belief among people that all good is not lost.

but i am not writing this blog because i feel pain for the victim or i want to make people aware that i am with them in their fight for justice. i write this blog to ask myself some questions .. questions that have been troubling my mind since that historically important 16 of December .

how often have you heard that a crime is being committed against a women?.. well one is committed every half an hour in India . and how often have you heard that a crime is being committed against a man..? i haven't heard till date. is it that the almighty started the discrimination of making women pure at mind and fitting dirty minds in men? i don't think so... then why?

the answer to this as far as i have been able to decipher is because  of the society that we live in. the thought process that runs deep in our nerves are they of medieval times when women were considered as objects? or is it that we are still in that time? 

the fact is that we are yet to accept the fact that men and women are equal... as i was reading the editorial of economic times ( as my television is facing some technical difficulties in overcoming the overdose of the same news 24*7) written by yusuf begg i realized that it is we , are thought process that is responsible for such incidents. today be it any field women have performed, although i do not agree that all of them had to face a lot of difficulties. shown that they can equal men. well this is the attitude that we ought to change .. why was it not that men have showed that they can equal women. its like saying that David is as tall as jack adding a sense of superlative to jack.

the point that i wish to make is that if both David and jack are of the same height .. why cant we say that both David and jack are equally tall. to stop these incidents from taking place it is essential that we start treating both the genders equally.

as i was writing this, the cold shivering wind just blew a thought to my brain.. there have been widespread demand for change in laws to facilitate stricter punishment for those who have done a crime against women( i am fed up of this term .. why cant it be crime against humanity or something like that) but have they ever given a thought that what all does this crime against women would include or have they ever thought about that if for an example suppose a women files a case that a certain person has tried to o something  wrong with her, then it i s noteworthy that the society would not wait for the court to give its judgement , it would decide on its own that the person is guilty , totally discarding the possibility that the person might be innocent and the woman might be trying to take a revenge. so all that i ask is that indian government has a system( which is not totally correct due to its delay but i would like to ask just give it some time to frame the laws ,... well not much though).

also now there has been a controversy surrounding aasaram's remarks, well what he said was a direct implication of what some of our politicians have already said in an indirect manner. consider this, an MLA from Alwar has asked to ban skirts in school... this is just another way of blaming the girls for whatever wrong happens to them.
so lets take a pledge on this new day to live as equals..