The other
day I was sitting at work, planning to go out to have
aloo paratha for dinner. Every time I don't carry mum cooked dinner, I prefer
going out for the unhygienic paratha instead of half cooked food in the
cafeteria that doesn't suit my system. When I asked my colleague to come along, she told me that the
vendor is shut down and the area is now covered by the police. Assessing
my puzzled look, she was surprised that I didn't know about the incident that
had taken place there the previous month; murder of a girl.
A girl in
her early 20s, working as a bartender at a couple of places in Gurgaon. She was
there for her dinner break, when a friend/ colleague/ competitor also turned up
there. They had an argument there which turned into a quarrel which turned into
an ugly feud. The other girl called her boyfriend from a nearby Haryana's
village, who came along with two other guys carrying thick rods. And they all beat
her to death. While the
whole world looked on, no one came forward to stop them, to protect her, to
call police or to take her to the hospital.
Since
she's told me about it, I can't stop thinking about the insensitivity and
intolerance in the society. Where was the public outrage that night, that comes
out too often and on a huge scale when a politician or a celebrity gives out a
controversial "statement". Why did they let her die like that!?
What if
it was their daughter or sister being beaten in public? What if it was me? What
if I were there? Could I protect her? Had they beaten me too with her? What her
family must be going through? Will our society keep letting the innocents die
like that by some outrageous intolerant illiterate? Are we scared from people
who are among us but never by the wrong? Why do we not stand against these
beasts for the innocents? Is it that easy to see someone die like that? Can't
we do something with a thought that our family can be their next target!? Someone
else blinded by outrage can attack our daughter or son and no one will stand
for them and just see them doing because we didn't have enough courage today.
Since my
friend told me about it, I just can't stop thinking about this whole scenario,
our society, I can't stop crying for her. It isn't about a girl but it could be
a boy killed, just like terrorism has no religion, a killed innocent has no
gender, it's just a victim.
Talking
about insensitivity, it's not gender biased, women are insensitive towards women. You travel in Delhi
metro, no woman will offer her seat to an old woman, a woman with a toddler, a
pregnant woman or anyone who needs it more than they do. Well, it would be unjust for women who do; which comprises a very small fraction of these
travelling women passengers. Some of these needy women will ask for a seat but
that's also a very minute number.
Girls
would rather pretend sleeping than offering their seat . In fact, the other day
a woman got up to catch her child who had just jumped off her lap to hold the
pole in front of her and a girl standing in a corner didn't take a moment to
come and take her momentarily vacant seat. Now this mother couldn't ask for her
seat and stood there holding her child in the moving metro trying to maintain
her balance. I waited for a few moments before offering my seat to her, just to
observe if anyone else also noticed and would offer her their seat and I was
once again convinced of the insensitivity at its all time high.
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