Rapes in India

These past few months have seen an awful streak of rapes within our country. First the rape of married woman by city taxi drivers in Bangalore. Right in front of her two young kids of 6 and 10. Next a college girl in Delhi who gets out after midnight cramming to get some snacks is picked up and raped all through the night and then thrown out on the streets the next morning. Next a college girl in Mumbai by a police constable during the day. To recollect that the location of this incident was one of the most visited areas by us during college. Next a german tourist visiting Rajasthan. Next the rape of a tribal minor, not even a teen, and then killed.

This string of incident just makes me feel so angry and ashamed. Why? Because it just showed what big hypocrits we Indians truely are. We claim to be a country with culture and tradition and when incidents such as these occur there is not even a single protest of public outcry from any part. No political parties taking up this issue, no corporates talking about increasing the safety their woman employees working into the late hours of the night. Not even the womens organizations coming out to the streets. Is this what our culture and tradition means. The woman in the Indian household and society is placed on a pedestal of respect and honor and when such disgraceful acts are committed our society should rise up and act out the severest possible punishment on the culprits.

Of all the case mentioned only the courts in Rajasthan have acted and met out a sentence of life improsnment to the culprits and their accomplices. And how did that happen you ask? because the nearby villagers came out to the rescue of that woman and handed those henous devils to the police. Guess some of us so called educated folk need to take a lesson or two in morality from those villagers.

Just take a moment to think what the lives of those two young kids is going to be like after they saw their mother being raped in front of them. If that doesn't make your blood boil then may god have mercy on you.