Remember last year, on 16th
of December, an innocent soul got raped in the streets of Delhi but nobody
cared? So much of protests, strikes and disputes erupted like volcanoes in
every single corner of the world. But do you think that fire is still inside
us? Or did it just fade away with time?
India gained independence 65 years back
but the question still remains that are women really independent and safe in
our motherland? Almost every single day, upon tuning on our television or peeking
through the daily newspaper in the morning, a rape case in any of the cities of
India is inevitable. Women, who are often defined as the most beautiful and
wonderful creation of the Almighty, is not safe anymore in our country. People
say and also believe that India is an independent and democratic country, where
we have the right to equality, really? Well, for me, India could never actually
gain independence and one of the biggest proofs for this is the sickening
situation of women in our country in this 21st century. Rapes,
molestations, harassments are some of the words which can now be used as
adjectives for the women in India. Almost every day a girl is being raped and
murdered, or raped and left wounded in any of the streets and we as Indians can
actually do nothing about it but see the news and brood over the fate of Indian
women. Even if we want to do something for these deprived souls, what can we
do? We will seldom get any support from our so-called people loving political
parties and to be very frank we do not have the courage to go against the law.
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Since ages, women are facing atrocious
condition in our country. Draupadi went through the cheer-haran,
and in this 21st century as well, this treatment is being
carried out by several men with much fluency and confidence, just that the term
is being changed from “cheer-haran” to rape and molestation! India has
always been a Mans’ nation and men are believed to be the ones who actually run
each and everything in our country. Is that so? Is this phrase really makes
sense? Well, for me, it’s a big no! Whatever women can do, with her excellence
and strong emotional poise, men can never even think about doing anything like
that. From Sarojini Naidu to Indira Gandhi, Pratibha Patil to Sonia Gandhi,
there are many other female leaders who have very efficiently managed our
country and tried to make it a better place to live in. There is no denying of
the fact that men as well did a lot for this nation but this comparison comes
only when we hear that men are superior to women. If we really think that our country
is independent, we should first try and believe in the semblance of both the
genders. We should try and carry forward the system of right to equality and
should do everything to bring similitude between a man and a woman. First of
all, we all should stop thinking that India is a male-dominated country and
then only women will gain the required respect and equality as men in this
nation.
We have our own historical facts and
myths where we have seen women going through many ridiculous and hard times. The Sati
Pratha, child marriages, and the Purdah system, all
of these show the stand of a woman in India. They were always been deprived of
a healthy and equal livelihood with their male counterparts, and even if some
of these rituals are not carried out in India anymore, still there are now many
other horrifying acts to humiliate women and make them believe that they are
the weaker sex. Killing of brides for dowry, female foeticides, rapes, and what
not! In India, you will find it all! Women are so unwanted that they are being
killed in the womb only. Disgusting, isn’t it? But we as the onlookers can
never actually make a stand against any such things. With time, we have seen advancements
in technology and we have high standards of living but the situation of women
has never really advanced or changed. We still face subjugation, alienation,
deprivation, insecurity and defeat in almost every single sphere.
According to Hinduism, women are
considered to be the “ardhangani” of men, which shows the equality between
men and women. She has also been regarded as the “Shakti” or the power, but
today this is not true anymore. If women are the power than how come they are
constantly been suppressed by men? We, as women, have a limitless tendency to
tolerate and this is often misused by men. However, they will never really know
when our tolerating power will reach its zenith and we will just burst out!
This hypocrisy of the Indian society to carry us forward as the mannequins and
also, on the other hand, distancing us from the main crowd should stop soon or
else the end of this nation is very much near. It is high time that the Indian
society understand the value of a woman. Without a woman, a nation would not yet
have born, without a woman, there would be no definition of love and beauty,
without a woman, people wouldn’t have known what sacrifice actually means,
without a woman, we will soon reach to the closing stage of life. We, the
women, should know our own values and importance and thus, to make others
realise our worth, we will have to stand for our own esteem, for our own
respect. We will have to educate the women of our country and make them realise
their significance. A nation can never flourish without the assistance of a
woman and this is the time when we should stand out for our own selves and show
the men that we are not the “weaker sex” but we are their equals and perhaps
the superiors, and also the true “Shakti” of this whole world.
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