What society are our Kids Going to Grow Up In ?

The news disgusted me as I am sure it did to millions others who read the news. How can anyone be so horny or rather so disgusting to rape a 5 year old actually raping anyone is not justifiable but this was just a lot of testing our patience. And not only that but he actually inserted candles and an oil bottle inside her, I mean that’s the heights of cruelty. And the man who did this was none other than her own uncle. I thought after the rape case in December and the amount of protest which happened after that the number of rape incidents will be less, but I was wrong it just seems to increase with every passing day.

I am more upset because our so called politicians who pretends to work for the people are never active in these things, to make strict laws or to make sure that the person who rapes is given a VERY STRICT PUNISHMENT AND SOON it is of no use when they are punished years after the incident, it should be quick! They always say that they will work for the country but now that the time has come when they country actually needs  some strict actions and a lesson for these people who look at women as just a sex object.

I have said this is many of my previous posts that, I always look at Mumbai as a very safe and secured city for women… but now I guess ill have to change that. I fear Mumbai will follow the path of Delhi soon ( I hope not )

 Just disgusting really, family members raping young girls, friends, classmates, co workers all seem like the same people who are just waiting for a chance to rape you. So congratulations its not only the strangers on the road that you need to worry about but also the people who are close to you and you have known for like forever are also almost the same as those strangers.

I fear the coming generations what kind of society are we going to bring our kids into?

 I also don’t understand what is the problem of actually hanging the people who rape? The country is asking for some brutal and serious punishment to those who stoop down the such disgusting acts. This will prove as an example for those who even think of doing something like this. This is what lacks in India the rules are very flexible and that’s the reason the trouble makers believe that whatever happens they wont be behind bars. 

Desh Ubal Raha Hai.

Remember the Tata Tea Ad? Where the husband is complaining of how the country is going down the drains when the wife explains him that the country is boiling now, you add tea sugar and milk and you’ll get an excellent result. I can’t help comparing the same with what is happening in the country capital. With what started on Sunday morning I thought it was just another protest march, people will assemble – protest – go home and carry on with their life. But when the protest turned into a violence and actually demanding an answer from the government did I feel happy thinking that something is finally happening to the country. Are we getting inspired by what is happening in Syria, Cairo and other countries? I hope yes!

During all election rallies, all these political parties promises to look after their people and their problems. But where are all these people now? When a mob is waiting for them outside their own house, these politicians make no assurances, instead they order lathicharge and tear gas on them so as to curb their protest… definitely not what we can call Democracy.  

It is our people who do such disgracing act and it is we who can change it, I recently had a chat with a friend,

Me – I hope I come back from Gujarat on time tomorrow, there is a candle light march at Gateway of India.

Friend  – I don’t understand how these march are going to help anyone or anything.

Me – so are you saying that we should do anything but just sit home what the crime happening on news and crib about it?

Friend  – no..but how is this helping?

Me – so tomorrow if I get raped, you as my friend  will do nothing to help me? Just sit home and crib about it? Chuck it lets not talk about it.

I pray for the girl to make a quick and healthy recovery and for all the devils who could so something like this to the poor girl a harsh punishment so that no one can ever do the same again. It only when we youth join hands and decide that we wont allow anything like this happening to any girl would we finally be able to protect the girls in our society.

PS – completely off topic, but something I am very thankful of. I generally travel late night for work reasons and for a long time now I wanted to buy pepper spray. So I was really very happy when my boyfriends brother bought two  pepper sprays 1 for me and 1 for his girlfriend. Well this also shows that guys these days are becoming more aware of the safety of the girls they are in touch with.  I feel more confident and less worried when travelling alone. 

Stop This Shame !!!

Past couple of days I have been dreading to open a newspaper, almost every other news is about someone getting raped, or murdered or murdered due to mistaken identity. I have always thought of Mumbai as a very safe city, and till now it has given me enough reasons to believe so. But now I am so not sure if this can be said about Mumbai anymore. With everything that is happening in Delhi, with a girl getting raped everyday and trust me there is nothing in this world that can ever justify this.

What makes me more angry is the people in India, majority of the people would just read the news, talk about it during lunch breaks, crib how bad the country is and that some change needs to be done, go home update their facebook status and then just forget about it. Why have we become so insensitive suddenly? Had this happened in US or some other developed country a revolt would have already started. This is where we lack, we forget about it in a day and move on in our life. Our judiciary is so slow that the criminals are also sure that no matter what they do they wont be in serious trouble, they will either be out in a jiffy on bails or the court procedures will take years to reach a decision, and this gives them the guts to actually pull of such thing.

What more saddens me is that, some of our media tries to pull TRP’s even on such a sensitive topic. Instead of trying to do something for the victim or to pressurize the government to take proper actions against the criminals, all they do is make some shaddy dramatization of the real event and scare off the audience. Whereas the real job of media is to inform and educate people and also make them realize their responsibilities towards such things.

Being a girl, I have started doubting almost all the strangers. Somewhere down the line there are many issues attached to this which leads to these rape cases, but that again is a different topic altogether.

Also I appreciate Sushma Swaraj for speaking up and demanding that the criminals get a death penalty, something like this is really needed so that people knows that something like this wont be excused. I would really be happy if this thing actually is taken into action and the rapist are hanged till death. 

No to Cycle Rickshaw ... Please!

            I recently made a short trip to  Vaishnav Devi and Delhi. Vaishnav devi was added to the plan just because my mother wanted to go there. As it was a trip planned in haste we didn’t really get time to book our helicopter tickets. We figured that there has to be some kind of arrangement there to get the tickets or that we shall simply walk with others. But as we reached there my mom was not feeling well and the helicopter were not available. So the only option was to either go walking which I denied as it was jeopardizing mom’s health or we go in a Palki  or on a Horse. We decided we would rather cancel the plan than take any of those options. Many people laughed out that we went so long and still didn’t go take Darshan. To which mom and I both replied, “ if we want to go to the top we will go walking or by a helicopter not sitting on people’s shoulder or giving a rough time to the horse.”  I really believe that this is a very evil practice and also inhuman.

<== For those who don't know what a Palki is.

             We also have Cycle – Rickshaw in Delhi, our capital city. And I refuse to sit in them everytime I go there. 

How can anyone sit in it while the person in front of you is trying hard to pull you. And if that is not cruel enough, people sit in it with their whole damn family and luggage, all this pulled by a single man. 

      I am really looking forward to the day when our Government just bans the  whole idea of cycle rickshaw and start the normal auto rickshaw’s everywhere. I know its not that practical. Many of those Cycle Rickshaw drivers are poor and thus can’t afford an Auto Rickshaw. But that’s the point doesn’t this mean that we are taking advantage of the poor??? Government can come up with some policy something to take steps right?

Imagine a Person elder to you pulling you. And when you sit in a Cycle Rickshaw you can clearly see the energy he is applying to pull you, and god forbid if there a bridge or a land form with a upward incline then naturally they can't pull you so they actually get down from the rickshaw and pull you like horses pull the carriage. 

Cycle Rickshaw is just a cruel and inhuman way of travel which should be stopped Immediately.

<== Picture Clearly Depicting that the poor must always slog,  while the rich enjoys the luxury.

There are 3 adults, 1 child and loads of luggage and a single man is pulling them. and this is a everyday scene in Delhi ==>