shame shame.....

haven't posted in a while...work has been crazy....but had to take time out to do this since i have this disquieting feeling which i know won't go away otherwise....

i watched the news with horror the other day as a bunch of ppl in Andhra Pradesh mercilessly beat and stripped a woman accused of killing her husband, all while a crowd of nearly 100 or so looked on.....this isn't the first time that something of this sort has happened in India i know but the fact that i got to watch a video of it was like a punch to the stomach.....i couldn't sleep well that night just wondering what kind of life that woman has to look forward to....

this is not something that only happens in rural India of course....case in point, the group of men who molested and groped the 2 women in Juhu on New Years' eve. Or the girl who was kept captive and repeatedly raped in a guest house in Bangalore. Then again the jury's still out on that one so its not fair on my part to comment.....

what is it that allows ppl to let their baser instincts out where women are concerned. i'm not even talking about women being mistreated at home or by their own families. that is another issue in itself which i don't want to touch upon here. what bothers me most is that suddenly women are not safe anywhere anymore, anywhere. everyday there's a story in the news of another woman being molested. and it's not a case of 'boys will be boys'. in fact in the video i saw, it was a man who finally came forward to cover the woman up...

read this commentary in the papers the other day and i think this is why i suddenly feel so scared...Its no longer enough if a woman stays away from so called unsafe situations or places...The fact is she is threatened even in ordinary situations, and more often than before....

are we as a society becoming more lenient? refuse to take the blame anymore? it always has to do with her clothes, where she was walking or if all else fails, its the media's fault....take the case of the boys who were photographed molesting the women in Juhu. They hold a press conference accusing the media of blowing things out of proportion and wrongly framing them, then meet Raj Thakarey who declares them innocent and demands that they receive an apology...

someone give the man a medal quick......