While thousands of well meaning people like us continue to vociferously voice our protests and sense of outrage at the rather sorry state of affairs that has befallen the women of this country, sadly, the spurt of crimes against women continues unabated........
Three more such instances of crimes against women have been reported across various twenty four hour English News Channels between last night and this afternoon, the first of which involves a twenty year old BPO employee being mercilessly stabbed to death by her stalker and childhood friend in a prominent East Delhi market, the second being reported in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district where the local police and government doctors have contrived to conveniently let off the prime or main accused in the gory gang rape and murder of a eight year old........
And the third occurring in our very own Hyderabad where a twenty three year old woman was found dead in her male friends' house early this morning, the local police are on the lookout for the elusive male friend as he is the only one who can shed further light on this matter and are yet to rule out the possibility of there being a sexual connotation to this seemingly senseless crime.........
These repeated instances of crime against women not only sicken, horrify and dismay me no end, but leave me pondering over the fact whether we can initiate the now defunct practice of community police that was an integral part of my growing up years in New Delhi.........
I still remember those heady days fondly where I used to traverse the length and breadth of G block in Kalkaji for close to six hours every night for the best part of three weeks and more in an effort to ensure the safety and security of my Sikh brethren from the wiles of the marauding anti Sikh mobs who had vowed to finish off every Sikh residing in Delhi in the aftermath of then prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination........
One wonders why that feeling of community and brotherhood is conspicuous by it's absence in these troubled and turbulent times when it is most required; to talk about myself, I live in a block of flats overwhelmingly inhabited by Telugus or people hailing from this region and am branded as a madman, rabble rouser and troublesome element whenever I broach the topic of ushering in a sense of discipline and community feeling that puts the country and society before self for the very reason that I am an "outsider" and hence deserve to be ostracised and isolated.........
How can an Indian be an "outsider" in one's own country, this feeling of isolation and growing alienation is what is driving residents from the north east, Kashmir valley, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and such other states into the clutches of maoists, naxalites separatists and terrorists and also contributing to this growing menace of crimes against women in no small measure as thirteen and fourteen year old girls are first sexually assaulted by area commanders before being drafted as loyal foot soldiers of the womens' Dalams or units...........
We may have giant strides in the economic sphere and may certainly be leading more affluent and prosperous lives vis a vis our parents and older generations, but have we even become even half the human beings that they are, how can we loose out on this feeling of community, brotherhood and country in a period just over a quarter of a century????, have we been blinded by the lure of the lucre and mammon to this extent that we have chosen to bypass our humanistic tendencies and conveniently put them on the back burner in order to amass tonnes of wealth at the cost of others..........
Friends, our government has conveniently barricaded itself from our very voices, needs, hopes, aspirations and expectations from them and more or less asked us to fend fro ourselves as they are obsessed with the idea of plundering the country and amassing gargantuan personal fortunes at the cost of the lives of the teeming millions who inhabit this vast country; so come forward, say to hell with this government, be the change in a seemingly hopeless and indifferent system that has insulated itself from the very citizens who created it in the first place............
Your country, neighbourhood and society, sisters, mothers and female friends need you, step forward, take pride in being an exemplary human being and a manifestation of all that the good lord really wanted us to be when he created us as his shadow and imprint on this planet, let's awaken the human being in us and reach out to all those who need us as this is the very least that we can do for the betterment of the country, society and ourselves...............
Three more such instances of crimes against women have been reported across various twenty four hour English News Channels between last night and this afternoon, the first of which involves a twenty year old BPO employee being mercilessly stabbed to death by her stalker and childhood friend in a prominent East Delhi market, the second being reported in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district where the local police and government doctors have contrived to conveniently let off the prime or main accused in the gory gang rape and murder of a eight year old........
And the third occurring in our very own Hyderabad where a twenty three year old woman was found dead in her male friends' house early this morning, the local police are on the lookout for the elusive male friend as he is the only one who can shed further light on this matter and are yet to rule out the possibility of there being a sexual connotation to this seemingly senseless crime.........
These repeated instances of crime against women not only sicken, horrify and dismay me no end, but leave me pondering over the fact whether we can initiate the now defunct practice of community police that was an integral part of my growing up years in New Delhi.........
I still remember those heady days fondly where I used to traverse the length and breadth of G block in Kalkaji for close to six hours every night for the best part of three weeks and more in an effort to ensure the safety and security of my Sikh brethren from the wiles of the marauding anti Sikh mobs who had vowed to finish off every Sikh residing in Delhi in the aftermath of then prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination........
One wonders why that feeling of community and brotherhood is conspicuous by it's absence in these troubled and turbulent times when it is most required; to talk about myself, I live in a block of flats overwhelmingly inhabited by Telugus or people hailing from this region and am branded as a madman, rabble rouser and troublesome element whenever I broach the topic of ushering in a sense of discipline and community feeling that puts the country and society before self for the very reason that I am an "outsider" and hence deserve to be ostracised and isolated.........
How can an Indian be an "outsider" in one's own country, this feeling of isolation and growing alienation is what is driving residents from the north east, Kashmir valley, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and such other states into the clutches of maoists, naxalites separatists and terrorists and also contributing to this growing menace of crimes against women in no small measure as thirteen and fourteen year old girls are first sexually assaulted by area commanders before being drafted as loyal foot soldiers of the womens' Dalams or units...........
We may have giant strides in the economic sphere and may certainly be leading more affluent and prosperous lives vis a vis our parents and older generations, but have we even become even half the human beings that they are, how can we loose out on this feeling of community, brotherhood and country in a period just over a quarter of a century????, have we been blinded by the lure of the lucre and mammon to this extent that we have chosen to bypass our humanistic tendencies and conveniently put them on the back burner in order to amass tonnes of wealth at the cost of others..........
Friends, our government has conveniently barricaded itself from our very voices, needs, hopes, aspirations and expectations from them and more or less asked us to fend fro ourselves as they are obsessed with the idea of plundering the country and amassing gargantuan personal fortunes at the cost of the lives of the teeming millions who inhabit this vast country; so come forward, say to hell with this government, be the change in a seemingly hopeless and indifferent system that has insulated itself from the very citizens who created it in the first place............
Your country, neighbourhood and society, sisters, mothers and female friends need you, step forward, take pride in being an exemplary human being and a manifestation of all that the good lord really wanted us to be when he created us as his shadow and imprint on this planet, let's awaken the human being in us and reach out to all those who need us as this is the very least that we can do for the betterment of the country, society and ourselves...............
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