Every candle light vigil or peaceful agitation is firstly made fun off, ridiculed, chastised, castigated, despised and then finally emulated and adopted when it proves to be resounding success and always ends up achieving far more than it initially set out to do..........
A couple of days after the inhuman treatment meted out to the 11 year old rape victim from Pune's renowned Wanowrie School occupied media space, grabbed newspaper headlines and last but not the least made it's way to thousands of blogs across the country, a five hour long intense and democratic protest by the parents of students from the same school and students itself more than yielded the desired result when the top management acquiesced to their 14 point charter of demands as well as got rid of the offending principal and director who failed to act on the 11 year old victim's complaint for month's together.............
According to one proud and more than immensely satisfied parent, "the school authorities not only agreed to our demands about having a lady attender within every school bus operated by the school's management but also reinstated the ravaged 11 year old victim with immediate effect as well as waived off her school/tuition fess until she duly completes her class 12 as their penance for the inexplicably sordid and apathetic treatment meted out to the victim".............
"What was even more heartening and encouraging was the fact that students who should have ideally been within the classrooms were standing shoulder to shoulder with us raising slogans like 'Principal ko jail main aur hamari behan (sister) ho school main' and even implied threats by the teachers who boasted about their ability to ruin their wards academic future failed to have any dampening or salutary effect whatsoever as the students repeatedly questioned them about their stoic silence on the the tragic issue and their inability to safeguard or then ensure a fellow student's safety and security, yet another doting and overwhelmed parent proudly pointed out...................
According to a third parent, their biggest achievement lay in getting a grudging endorsement of respect and admiration from the city's police commissioner who promised them of all possible help and also lauded their efforts to get the victim and her family the long denied justice to them publicly..................
There certainly lies a lesson for us in the above narrative for all of us cynical and despondent folks who have simply given up on the system by saying that the same is to insular and thereby simply unresponsive to our needs and ardent desires; united we stand, divided we fall should be our ruling dictum and hope and the heartfelt willingness to succeed against seemingly insurmountable odds our clarion call.........
"Duniya Jhukti Hain, Jhukane waala chahiye, har raah bhatka hua raahi sahi raah par dobara wapas aata hain, usse bas sahi raah dikhane waala chahiye...............
A couple of days after the inhuman treatment meted out to the 11 year old rape victim from Pune's renowned Wanowrie School occupied media space, grabbed newspaper headlines and last but not the least made it's way to thousands of blogs across the country, a five hour long intense and democratic protest by the parents of students from the same school and students itself more than yielded the desired result when the top management acquiesced to their 14 point charter of demands as well as got rid of the offending principal and director who failed to act on the 11 year old victim's complaint for month's together.............
According to one proud and more than immensely satisfied parent, "the school authorities not only agreed to our demands about having a lady attender within every school bus operated by the school's management but also reinstated the ravaged 11 year old victim with immediate effect as well as waived off her school/tuition fess until she duly completes her class 12 as their penance for the inexplicably sordid and apathetic treatment meted out to the victim".............
"What was even more heartening and encouraging was the fact that students who should have ideally been within the classrooms were standing shoulder to shoulder with us raising slogans like 'Principal ko jail main aur hamari behan (sister) ho school main' and even implied threats by the teachers who boasted about their ability to ruin their wards academic future failed to have any dampening or salutary effect whatsoever as the students repeatedly questioned them about their stoic silence on the the tragic issue and their inability to safeguard or then ensure a fellow student's safety and security, yet another doting and overwhelmed parent proudly pointed out...................
According to a third parent, their biggest achievement lay in getting a grudging endorsement of respect and admiration from the city's police commissioner who promised them of all possible help and also lauded their efforts to get the victim and her family the long denied justice to them publicly..................
There certainly lies a lesson for us in the above narrative for all of us cynical and despondent folks who have simply given up on the system by saying that the same is to insular and thereby simply unresponsive to our needs and ardent desires; united we stand, divided we fall should be our ruling dictum and hope and the heartfelt willingness to succeed against seemingly insurmountable odds our clarion call.........
"Duniya Jhukti Hain, Jhukane waala chahiye, har raah bhatka hua raahi sahi raah par dobara wapas aata hain, usse bas sahi raah dikhane waala chahiye...............
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