DO WE NEED TO CHANGE?

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the delay but was searching for something really powerful to come up with. And it happened. Yesterday only I saw many of my facebook friends sharing a video so I decided to watch it maybe just to break the shackles of boredom. Let me tell you  the video I am talking about is the same that is doing rounds on the world wide web. And if by the slightest chance you have no clue what I am talking about then please do watch this documentary by bbc “INDIA’S DAUGHTER”.

16^th December 2012, a girl named   Jyoti Singh (  to whom we referred as NIRBHAYA), almost a doctor, decided to watch a movie with her friend and I guess that was her ONLY mistake. Watching a movie with a friend (of the opposite sex) in India is a crime. If a girl is found walking on the streets at night she will be considered loose, a girl wearing a dress is considered available, a girl hanging around with guys is surely a slut but a boy having multiple girlfriends is still considered a DUDE. That’s the mindset of our society.

 It took the government merely days to put an Fir against the famous AIB roast but it took more than a year to punish the accused of the nirbhaya rape case. And it’s not just about this case but according to the reports there is a rape case in India every 20mins and most of them go unreported. Not just rapes but acid attacks, domestic violence everything infuriates me and every second women in our country. People say  you  gotta be the change you wish to see in the world. But in a country like ours the victim is forced to live an isolated life coz she has been touched by another man and nobody would marry her and the accused is set free as if it’s his birth right  to rape women. Why do we not hear about men being raped or sexually harassed? Has anyone ever thought that way? Nobody I believe.  Then  why women?  maybe because they are physically weak, maybe that’s the part of our culture to suppress a woman for pleasure. Women were and are still just considered as sex objects by majority of men in our country not just the illiterate but also the most educated (which includes the honourable defence lawyers of the rape case).

The aim of this post is not to highlight the nirbhaya rape case as enough has already been said about it in the last two years but its an urge to the masses to change their way of thinking. Its all in your mind. People say girls should stop wearing short dresses or revealing clothes but even a 2year old girl gets raped  in our country. Is this because she was trying to seduce the man?  No its because she is a girl and she is meant to be treated like this. When a girl is raped or harassed, she is asked to stay mum so that her family’s name does not get hampered. But what about her inner being? Girls,we need to raise voice against all the atrocities and sufferings and not choosing to go by the monotony. We are not weak rather we are much stronger than the men around. Its just we gotta prove them wrong.

It’s the need of the hour to not just change the mindsets of the people but also raise voice against the illogical system of our society. It’s either now or never.