Author: Nisaar Nadiadwala
Imagine a girl is raped while on the way to attend the call of nature. Were the rapists inspired by that sex appeal (sic) or were they highly charged up sex maniacs that they could grab anything that came on their way like hungry wolves? Reports say that the girls were alive when they were hanged after being raped.The disturbing question is : Then why did they hang them? Was it a sadist pleasure to see the victims struggling to save their shame and then struggle to save their lives. Or was it an announcement of a barbaric puffed up superiority complex that their crime can go unchallenged?
Badaun in UP became a place for political pilgrimage for two days with many Tom, Dick and Harry of Indian Politics going there to console the mourning parents of the two girls who were raped and hanged to death. As the voice of dismissing the state Government for its inability of protecting women's honour is growing louder, the UP government is now is more concerned about saving itself than its women. Some people are more interested on inflicting a harsher punishment on the UP government than on the rapists. One of the top leaders of UP Government retaliated by complaining that why the rapes in other states of India are not highlighted as of UP!
Just today we have another high power media blitz about anothe rape. A 35 year old lady in Meghalaya was molested and her head was blown off point blank for resisting rape. In the coming days more news of women beign raped will be highlighted in the Indian media and lots of debates will take place to uphold the honour of women, till the cheerleaders of football worldcup replace the agony of poor rape victims. After all the media has just returned from the battle of elections and gathered a lot of TRPs and money as spoils of war. Now to maintain the costumers till the worldcup football kicks off, they need sensations, and what can be a better sensation than such blood boiling news. Mourning too is now glamourised.
In the US, according to their statistics, more than 2000 women are raped every day but these news dont rock their media or Parliament, but they have written a lot on Indian rapes. The Guardian, The New York Pos, BBC and others have given a colourful coverage to the Badaun rape story. For them it is like " The Slum Lord Millionare " movie which gives Oscar winning entertainment by showing Indian slum kids jumping in human dung. What moral rights the Western news papers have to shout and scream about Indian rapes story when their own soldiers are involved in more gruesome sexual crimes in war-torn Middle east ?
Will the Indian parliament show courage to amend the law of punishing the rapists and upgrade it with a death penalty? Pressure of stiff punishment for the rapists is too high on the new Indian parliament, but what about the scores of members from various parties who have cases of rapes against them? So the news and noise will fade away once some other sensational story pops up. After all winning an election is one thing and running a nation is another thing. You can win elections by paying the media but you cannot you rule the country by paying the media. You need strong laws to protect your society and it should be applicable for all including the rapists of Muzzafarnagar and Gujarat.
Nisaar Nadiadwala can be responded at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com
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Imagine a girl is raped while on the way to attend the call of nature. Were the rapists inspired by that sex appeal (sic) or were they highly charged up sex maniacs that they could grab anything that came on their way like hungry wolves? Reports say that the girls were alive when they were hanged after being raped.The disturbing question is : Then why did they hang them? Was it a sadist pleasure to see the victims struggling to save their shame and then struggle to save their lives. Or was it an announcement of a barbaric puffed up superiority complex that their crime can go unchallenged?
Just today we have another high power media blitz about anothe rape. A 35 year old lady in Meghalaya was molested and her head was blown off point blank for resisting rape. In the coming days more news of women beign raped will be highlighted in the Indian media and lots of debates will take place to uphold the honour of women, till the cheerleaders of football worldcup replace the agony of poor rape victims. After all the media has just returned from the battle of elections and gathered a lot of TRPs and money as spoils of war. Now to maintain the costumers till the worldcup football kicks off, they need sensations, and what can be a better sensation than such blood boiling news. Mourning too is now glamourised.
In the US, according to their statistics, more than 2000 women are raped every day but these news dont rock their media or Parliament, but they have written a lot on Indian rapes. The Guardian, The New York Pos, BBC and others have given a colourful coverage to the Badaun rape story. For them it is like " The Slum Lord Millionare " movie which gives Oscar winning entertainment by showing Indian slum kids jumping in human dung. What moral rights the Western news papers have to shout and scream about Indian rapes story when their own soldiers are involved in more gruesome sexual crimes in war-torn Middle east ?
Nisaar Nadiadwala can be responded at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com
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