Stop Now

Fog is greeting us every morning. Winter has entered from the doors and windows. We are heading for another year- 2014. Time doesn’t stop for anyone but sometimes memories don’t fade with time. Like the Nirbhaya incident which shook the country last year around this time. Lot has been said, system did feel the jitters of the heated reactions and judgment was thrown on the fast track. Debates still run on whether justice was delivered or not. But what is lost can never be gained, the loss of faith and the complete loss of sensitivity not only by the perpetrators, even onlookers or society at large which refused to act on the spot.
Nirbhaya won’t be alone, many more exists and lots more will follow. Atleast, we are aware of Nirbhaya and her pains. What about a three year old girl who went through a similar horror around the same time when the nation was joining for justice to Nirbhaya? The girl has lost her innocence to speak the least, she has lost her smile and relives the trauma through repeated narration of her case to the law makers. The family is struggling to make a good fight against the inhuman atrocities meted out. Fast track court couldn’t be appointed to hear the case. A year has passed and the family is on a battle to make their voice heard. Their case didn’t even get a media coverage resulting in no people’s support to champion their cause. Result is that they are where they were a year back, recovering and not recovered.
Question is whether we could bring the time back for the survivors; tell them nothing will ever go wrong. Give them their lives back and moreover the security to dream, the way they always did. Now, that’s a big task to ask for going by the rising number of crimes. Their increase in number is failing to create any shock value. We look and move to the next page or the next channel, telling ourselves how bad the world around us has become. We remember to keep a track on our women, drop them and pick them from wherever, remind them to keep a low public profile and in our minds keep praying for their safety. As far as it happens to others, as good humans we discuss and express our anger on social media and try to tighten the security of our loved ones. But nothing less, nothing more!
Policies won’t help, law can’t deliver, police will fail unless we educate our men. Till the time, my country grieves on the births of its fairer sex, things look far from change. Till the time, our women don’t teach their sons to treat daughters well, crime won’t stop. Till the time, mother doesn’t discriminate between her son and daughter, things won’t turn bright. We as a society need to sensitize the stronger sex to respect, love and above all value the opposite sex. The culprits were all within us and their act is an indication to the sickness our society is presently suffering from. Medications are needed to cure it and nothing works better than proper care to help recover.
Problem persists within women themselves. Women spend their whole lives antagonizing each other. They are their worst enemies. The attitude, “if I couldn’t how could she” needs a change. Women need to combine and support each other. Be their own support group and help each other’s grow.
A new year is setting in. We can atleast pledge to try, try to make the world a little better.


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