We feel proud saying there is no single profession where we can’t see girls. In every profession women are at the utmost position from conductor to entrepreneur. They are changing the conscience of male dominant country like India, that they also can do anything that men can and suddenly ……..something disgraceful, shameful happened in the place which we used to call safest place in India for girls. Yes I’m talking about Mumbai.
A girl who is photo journalist by profession was gang raped in Shakti mills near mahalaxmi station in Mumbai. And we got different reactions across the country while observing the impact of incident happened in Mumbai.
Similarly another girl was trying to catch a train from kurla station and suddenly some random person groped her. At first she was utterly confused but the time she comes to know train already passed the station and she went home mutely. A girl from ahmednagar stays in pune for education. She got annoyed by the wanton and mischievous boys around her colony that used to tease her when she was returning from college. And after complaining, police did not take any actions saying don’t get outside after 7 otherwise something bad will happen. I think for this advice police officer should get Nobel Prize for peace. What rubbish. It’s their duty to protect her, but No.
Numbers of eve teasing cases are increasing day by day. It does not have any limits and exceptions over time and place. At least Local trains have different compartments for men and women, but girls say condition in bus is more horrible. Anyone comes and does something and run away and in time we come to know that person got out of the bus. One day while traveling in a bus, a lady stopped the bus and dragged the conductor itself to police station. Everyone was getting late but no one said anything.
One day I asked my friends that how many of them never experienced the eve teasing. But unfortunately no one said they are safe in their hometown. One of my friend said,” every girl is a victim of eve teasing one or the other way but she never confront it considering what people will think and its always about losing respect when you say you are a victim.” One friend told me she carry knife while traveling long distance.
Rape and eve teasing is not new in our country. So the girls are been restricted to be at home before 7 in evening. Therefore they hardly have seen the world after 8 in evening.
If there is any event in college till 9 or 10. Then girl’s parents usually come to receive them or boys and girls together go home in a group. And the girls who stay far never attend such events in college.
Seriously! If today any girl says she want to go alone somewhere then her parents start scolding her saying you have not seen world yet. That’s why many girls got habituated going somewhere in groups.
But these restrictions are frustrating for those who are like “GYPSY” (indirect meaning- traveler). We have to face and protect ourselves from those wantons. We ourselves have to keep that “Mumbai spirit”.
After the incident many girls got vigilant, alert and cautious. It is not like before this incident they were not alert. But the fear has increased in their mind. It is true that girls got disturbed because of the incidents such happened one after another. Recent incident happened in Shakti mills was not new to us but unknowingly it happened in our city.
And that’s why many girls have restricted their working hours and started roaming in groups. Which concludes that when we call ourselves we are modern and developing and keeping our girls under restrictions.
Think Again……
