As it is said on the occasion of Holika Dahan burn all your bad thoughts into that fire and the good wins over evil. But did anyone thought in reality does it really happens??
Everything has always stayed in only words. The good has rarely won over the evil. The reason why I am saying this is every single day, every single hour, every single minute, every single second a girl of any age, a mother, a wife being raped. Especially in festivals, the range of cases of rape is more. The evils find these festivals as an opportunity for them to fulfill their sexual needs.
The evils never burned the evil inside them in that fire of Holika, instead, they misused this occasion of Holika as an opportunity for them. I very well know this is a very common topic and everyone knows about it, but my question to that every single person is having you taken any step to stop this, have you ever taught your sons about this, have you ever supported your daughters, wife, mothers?? Did you punish your son when they did something like this? Did you ever slap your son or your brother or your husband for this?
The list of my questions will never end.....
As a girl, I know in this modern era also, it's so tough for me to travel alone even in the daytime. I know what fear my parents have in their minds when they send me alone somewhere even if I am going through a cab or metro. Not even them I too have this fear in my mind no matter how strong I am, but when someone stares at you with those dirty intentions, it feels so bad, I feel like running from there, I feel like I wanna go back to my home. When while traveling in the metro if someone touches your hand or your back, it feels like slapping them right over there at that moment itself, but we don't have that many guts, what we did is we simply ignore them and change our place, start running from that place. I too have done this in my past.
But my question is why?? Why do we ignore these situations? Why do we run from those evils? Why don't we at that moment itself slap tightly? Why don't we punish them right away? Why do we on our own self protect ourselves? Why don't we straightaway call the police helpline and get those evils punished?? Why do we consider ourselves weak?? It's enough now. We should stop being weak. On the side, it is said a woman is the one who even after going through so much pain has a smile on their face, and on the other hand, we're holding our daughter, wife, mother responsible for these things. Instead of giving them the strength to stand for themselves and standing by their side, we are asking them to not go out to avoid such incidents.
Why are we held responsible?
Why every time we or should I say a girl/woman is held responsible for these incidents. Why do most people say that a girl should not wear short clothes, because her short clothes are the reason why such incidents are taking place. Most people blame girls should not work late night or night shifts because if they will do so, such incidents without any doubt will take place. But my question is girls/women who wear suits and sarees are not raped? Do these incidents don't take place at their homes? Is a girl/woman safe at her home? Can't these incidents take place at their homes or with those wearing fully covered clothes? I have the answer to this question, and that is a girl of 5-6 years is also raped, a girl/woman who wears fully covered clothes is also raped, they are raped, sexually harassed even at their own home. This is happening for ages or I should say centuries.
To date where women have reached heights, no proper law has come into existence where a man who does this is sentenced to death for rape. Instead, a girl after being raped does not have that many guts that she can face society and fight for justice for herself. It's an actual fact that most of the girls after being raped instead dies in the hospital or they suicide in the fear that what others will think of and their parents to fight for justice for their daughter at a point of time lose the hope that their daughter will not get justice. The police itself declines to files these cases.
In the end, I would just say that be strong, be bold and be independent. Learn to stand for yourself, no one will fight for you, we have to fight for ourselves.
Author: Anushka Aggarwal.
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