How many Baby Falaks and Baby Afreens
have to sacrifice their innocent lives for the sick mentality of
Indian society? How many female fetuses are forced to be aborted even
before they experience the first light of this planet, just for the
whims and fancies of a feudal, patriarchal mindset? How many women
are to be battered, brutalized, ravished, raped, and finally pushed
into death for no reason, but being the easy target of boorish
criminals? How long the judicial system of this country will be
fettered by the archaic jurisprudence and let those bloody criminals
run scotfree because of the damn loopholes in our legal system? How
long the executives and legislators of this country support those
criminals in perpetrating the crimes against women in broad daylight
and still not get convicted? And how long the insensitive citizens of
this country notice all these heinous acts like unabashed nincompoops
and forget it next moment in the pretext of false resilience?
Certainly, there is no concrete answer
to any of these queries because we as integral part of this rotten
system are so engrossed with our own selfish agenda that we have
hardly a moment to think about the larger society around us. And what
we do? Twit a couple of harsh or sarcastic comments, write a bashing
blog, or, in the worst case, given an opportunity, force our fiery
arguments in a television debate and forget right there that the
issue is so deep rooted in our collective mindset that even the
severest ever tumbler can uproot a mountain, but it may be too feeble
to shake the collective conscience of this nation.
In a sense, the 21st century
Indian mindset is still shackled with the rituals of Iron Age. We are
the slave of a dangerous notion that men are dispenser of this
evolutionary civilization. We still worship goddesses like Laxmi and
Saraswati, but given a chance to exploit our free will, we instantly
get infected with chronic dementia and infest upon the physical body
of women like wild vultures prowling upon a corpse. Is there any
resurrection for these crazy, barbaric tribe called men? And we
claim civilized? Shame on these monsters who live behind the facade
of hypocrisy and still project themselves as emancipator of women.
Now is the time to overhaul this status
quo mentality and gear up for an altogether new civilization where
there would be no discrimination against women. Let's completely
forget those vilified learning that man is superior to woman in every
dimension. Let's unshackle us from the spell of those false doctrines
and dogmas that paint women as inferior, weaker, helpless and they
need man's support to exist in this society. Let's banish all those
literatures that glorify man as superior being. Let's move away from
those archaic, worthless rituals and practices that in their
infinitesimally small measure even differentiate man as holier than
woman. Let's remember that according to the indisputable laws of
nature, men and women are compliment to each other – without one
the other is meaningless.
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