Shame! Another rape in Haryana
Haryana shocks the nation yet again by another
horrendous rape incident in Rewari. This
time the victim is a teenager- a CBSE topper. And look at the apathy and ineptitude.
The perpetrators had been roaming free after committing the crime. They even
had the gall to visit the family of the victim the day after and threaten them.
The police was not just callous but even rude to those who went to report and
file an FIR. Even after 3 or more days the main accused had been still at
large. Did you see the attitude of the CM when he was asked uncomfortable
questions by a reporter? He lost his cool, chided the reporter for skirting the
main and more pressing matter. And what was that more pressing matter? PM’s
swachh bharat yojna on which then the worthy CM began to wax eloquent! Aghast,
I squirmed in my seat when I saw the footage on India Today news channel on the
17th evening. How on earth
could a CM of a state be so evasive, so casual, so flippant, so off-hand and so
diversionary while the whole nation was numb with shock and horror?
Friends,
where are we headed? What has gone wrong with our society? Where are our social
and moral values? Is this the same very land of Buddha and Gandhi? What is it
that has turned us from cultured, civilized human beings to abominable monsters? Why is a girl child always discriminated against in our families? Is
gender bias too deep-rooted in our collective psyche to be put right? Is it all
the fall-out of our senseless rush towards crass materialism? Our blind greed
for money? Lack of wholesome education? Are we failing as parents? Is our
school education in utter mess? Is it the ever growing menace of drug addiction
spreading among our youth – Himachal included – that is turning them into
rogues and criminals? Or, are we simply a failed democracy unable to get its
act together? Why our law-enforcing machinery is so inefficient and inept? Why
regime change after regime change, it is the same type of mis-governance that
is served out to the common man? Why in our politics, we mostly have men and
women of straw and clay – many of them
uncouth illiterates not even fit to teach in a primary school - uttering
nonsense and mouthing absurd, silly, disgusting statements every now and then;
and so few with vision, integrity, idealism and intellectual robustness to ably
guide the destiny of the nation?
Myriad
questions rage and storm the mind when such dastardly crimes happen and make
our heads hang in shame. How can we keep a straight face in the world, sound
credible and add gravitas on international issues in big halls and large
conferences when back home incident after incident makes us hang our heads in
shame?
I
think time has come when we as a nation must put our heads together and look
seriously into this unbearable cycle of violence and crime and evolve
comprehensive holistic solutions to bring our misguided youth back on track.
And in
regard to the present incident, no sir; mere transfer (not even the belated suspension of the ASI) of the SP
of the area is not enough… it is a humourless joke instead. Chief Minster Khattar ji, it is of course a
chhota muhn badi baat but if your conscience answers to the calls of morality
and accountability in our (rotten) political system, you’d have done well to put in
your papers at once, and the Haryana’s DGP even before you.
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India has earned the rare epithet," rape capital" of the world,thanks to the daily recurrence of gang- rapes.What to talk of Haryana,Mujjafarpur in Bihar recently rocked the nation where juveniles were raped by their protectors. In Dehradun, a school girl was gang-raped by her classmates where the school administrators tried to shield the perpetrators untill the victim's sister reported the matter to the police.It is just countless.No surprise then that advisories have been issued by many countries to prospective visitors especially females to travel to India.What we learnt in our twenties, today a 10 year-old knows,thanks to the exposure to internet in mobiles.Who will stop the menace?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is a never-ending scene. Not a day goes by when we don't find a screaming headline about a rape or gross violence against women. It needs a collective effort by us all to eradicate this ever growing and horrible social evil. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
DeleteUr concern for shameful rape incident in Haryana is genuine which need to b condemned y one n all.However, u have to keep in mind that politicions r mostly thick-skinny n if Khatter resigns another rogue would immediately take his place which might worsen d situation. The roots of evil r deeply entrenched in our social system which needs to b sensitized on d issue. There is perhaps urgent need to create small groups in each locality who impart education on moral values to youth
ReplyDeleteYou are very right sir. A resignation is hardly the way to stem the rot. They all are chips of the same block after all...only labels and names change. There is certainly a dire need, as you rightly observe, to engage in a collective and multi-pronged effort to remedy this great scourge that afllicts our society. Thanks very much for your thought-sharing.
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