Recently on 4th of March 2015, the official
broadcast of the documentary called ‘India’s Daughter’ was blocked by the
government of India, 4 days prior its release. The official release was
supposed to be broadcasted on NDTV 24X7 on the 8th of March, on
international women’s day. However, due to the court orders BBC had little to
no options, so they complied. The documentary was however channeled throughout
the UK on BBC four and was soon uploaded on Youtube.com and within no time it
went viral. On the 5th of March the government of India ordered
Youtube to block the documentary. Youtube complied as well.
“Do you want a working wife or a housewife”, I asked one of
my close friend who was an engineer from a very reputed university of Andhra
Pradesh.
“Housewife bhai, you should always marry a housewife.
Working women will ruin the house.”
“Oh! How is that so?” I asked trying to dig his thoughts.
“If women start working, who will take care of the house,
who will take care of children and who will teach them our customs and traditions.”
My friend was oozing with machismo and I didn’t want to hear
from him any further. So I walked away from a pride filled engineer, bloating
with male chauvinism. From the brief discussion that I had with him, I could
only comprehend two things. First, women do everything from cleaning the house,
cooking for the family, raising children, teaching them values and feeding them.
Second, and most important, they bear the children.
I could also infer
that all of the men’s activity can also be summed in two broad engagements-
earning money and having sex, because obviously rest of the work is taken care
of by the women folks.
Coming to the topic of sex, there was an interesting
question asked by my biology teacher during the discussion of the chapter called
reproduction.
“When is a frog’s birthday?” he asked trying to get an
answer. None of us replied as we didn’t know the answer.
“It’s mostly during June and July, because they only
reproduce during that time, but in the case of humans, it’s different, humans
are always ready. That is the reason people share their birthdays from January
to December.”
We all laughed at that time, but that simple example makes
so much sense now. Men are always ready to have children, more importantly
ready to have sex.
Every 20 minutes a female is raped in India. If that is not
a shame for these so called macho hunk dudes, claiming to call themselves
‘MARD’, then I cannot fathom what is? They want a son as a child because a
daughter will not take care of them in the future. A son will bring dowry
whereas, a girl will siphon all the money during her marriage. That is some
utter blasphemy right there, and no matter how hard you try to convince them
that women are equal, they will just walk away. I don’t call them educated, I call
these sick viruses of the society as literates, because all they can do is read
and write. They do not know the difference between right and wrong, all they
care about is themselves and their pride.
One of the lawyers from the defense council of the rape
accused was ready to burn his own daughter if she had relations with another
man before marriage.
Burn her down!! I mean what is she? Is she a paper or a
piece of trash? She calls him dad and expects him to be her first line of
defense from all harm. But, in return he claims on a documentary that he would
burn her if she had relations with other men before marriage! I have no words
to describe such a monster. He should be refrained from all sense of family.
That might teach him a lesson or two. But I doubt that, these people can feed
on their pride and survive for years. They are very close to cockroaches and
mosquitos in terms of survival.
Coming back to the topic of sex. There is a quote by George
Carlin which needs to be mentioned – “I wonder, does a rapist have a hard-on
when he leaves the house in the morning, or does he develop it during the day
while he's walking around looking for somebody.” None of the above might be
true in all fairness. Some rapes might be planned, like the bastard had nothing
to do with his life. But, most of them are out of the misunderstanding that
they can get away with it. This is the common misconception they have, and so
far it has proved to be more or less true. Thousands of rapes go unreported.
Family pride is involved. I say to hell with this family pride and give the
devil what he deserves.
I sometimes think why the women don’t lodge a complaint.
Sure, there is a thing called family name involved and the omnipresent
“neighbors” who always speak at the wrong time. But I really think why they
can’t. Then I remembered the police, the doctors and the lawyers are the three
worst people you could get tangled to if you want problems in your life.
Doctors and lawyers can still be fine, but on an average, I haven’t seen people
praising the policemen. I don’t generalize them based on most of them, but the
most people would agree with me on that. Oh the policemen, money thirsty
government employees. All they crave is money, as if they will be in procession
when they die. To tell you the fact the police have the power to stop it. The
people have the power to stop it. But nobody is stopping it.
This is the exactly the chance that a rapist needs, a chance
to think that he can get away. A chance that he thinks, no one will notice and
a chance that everything will be buried in time.
Today, one of the students were denied internship in a
German university because the professor was troubled by the amount of rapes
that were happening in India and she wanted to ensure that nothing of that sort
happened (as we all know from the biology class, that humans are always ready
to have sex). This letter went viral. The ambassador to Germany wrote a mail to
the professor and she later apologized.
Wait, if you think that is the end of the story then let me
tell you more. That wasn’t the end. The easily-troubled middle class erupted on
social media to voice their opinions. “Rape the professor”. “Germans are
racists”. “Western countries do not have sense”, and so on and so forth. If you
haven’t guessed it, these are the aforementioned literates. They only know how
to read and write. Applying thought and knowledge they never learned. On one
hand they go on to say that you cannot generalize every Indian because some are
rapists, and on the other hand they go on and generalize the entire German
population as racist, based on the comments made by a single Professor.
10000 people in Nagaland invade a prison and lynch a person
who was arrested on rape charges. The public was fast to react. In the words of
one of my friend these are “blood thirsty and vengeful public.” They will not
sit down and stage a nationwide protest. They can certainly lynch a person who
was arrested on charges of rape (he was not convicted yet). Isn’t this the
problem of the middle class in India, they will only rise and fight for it, if
and only if it is directly hurting them. As long as they are not hurt,
everything can lay in its place. This attitude is the main reason that
politicians are not put in jail. Corruption is a major problem, hunger is an
epidemic, where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
This country, with the large bulk of middle class has given
the priority to burgers and not beggars, and if this attitude does not change
then there will always be poor people in India who will sleep without food.
There will always be rapes in India, where the rapist still thinks he can get
away. The police will only act if the government tells it to act. The
government will only act when the people force them to act. Every middle class
needs to be hurt by every rape so that they understand the pressures and the
pain involved in this trauma. It is only then when the nation will hear if we
all stand up in one voice and say that this ends today. If a party can come in
full majority to win the biggest democratic elections in India playing the
middle class card, then I have all the more reasons to be supportive that the
same middle class can stand up and fight against the epidemic called rape.
The above was the actual writing that were suppose go
online. But, yesterday I read about a rape of a 6 year old. Did she wear less
clothes or did she excite him? How did he get turned on by a 6 year old child?
I hear of these incidents and think to myself whether we do have freedom. A
freedom to say no to a guy’s proposal and not be attacked by acid over our
face. No we don’t and sad that we can still pour our fake remorse and empathy
over the internet and not take one step towards the betterment of the society
in general.
