Take 1: Somewhere in Mumbai
Take 2: Somewhere in Kochi
It is becoming the usual way India celebrates the arrival of a new year. It happened on New Year’s eve in 2006 – it happened on New Year’s eve in 2007 - it happened when Dhoni and his men brought the T-20 World Cup home - it happened when the new year was rung in yesterday. No - I am not talking about celebrations – I am talking about molestation of women. On one of the news channel debates, a police chief had to say that the women were at fault – they were in an inebriated state – they were inappropriately dressed to be walking on a road – they "invited trouble" for themselves.
I am amazed at the double standards, which exist for a man, and for a woman in the Indian society. Good girls stay at home on New Years eve and the "fun" ones hang around and ring in the new year with their friends at one of the million parties in one of those discos. Doesn’t a city belong to a woman? Doesn’t she have the right to celebrate the New Years eve in any manner she wants? Doesn’t she have the right to join the procession in Mumbai, which welcomed Team India after their win in South Africa? Does a woman have to play the role of a moral science teacher to a man at every stage of life? Can’t a man decide and stick to his morals for himself? Does she always have to be a victim of the stereotypes of few stifled minds, which define the ideal decent behaviour for a girl?
Shame on the police who eat the tax payer’s money to protect the citizens – men and women – and then leave the women of the society to take care of themselves. They say a society without a conscience gets a police without a conscience – I guess we are getting what we deserve at some level. Somehow even the most developed and safe country cannot boast of a safe terrain for a lady – whether we decide to do something about it or just shake our head for a while and move on in life – that is an individual's choice.
4 comments:
Such acts of animal behavior come from people who have no Conscience like you mentioned.
One way of looking at solving the problem is Education.
Education is also one of the propellers of Conscience.
Providing Education is yet another post to be blogged about, probably by the blogger herself. :-)
Well - I don't agree that education absolutely fortifies the streak of good character in people. It's something innate - it is something that you learn when with friends, family and your thoughts. But ya, education does make you aware about how one is supposed to behave in the society. Whether one chooses 2 follow the expected norms of society - that's the entire issue.
True. But we are so introduced to education at such a young age, and live with it for quite a long time, that, don't you think, all you said about learning with friends, family comes with education itself?
But the problem with education again is, we don't have the right teachers. Thats the problem we really face.
I guess that would answer your question - if you had it - about why we still have conscienceless ppl in spite of education.
Education eh? Kerala is supposedly the most literate state in the country....and it is also home to nosey neighbours and uhm...oh wait....the blog does talk of a certain incident in Kochi (Ernakulam)...hmmm...the irony
Education and Morals are two different stories..educating a person doesn't make him/her a saint...it guides but doesn't generally mold you into a perfect person....totally agree to dollz views here...
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