VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

WOMEN or the ‘fair sex’ is often viewed as a weak, fragile and dependent body by the biased eyes of the society. People do not want to accept the fact that today there is no height that a woman can’t scale. She is outshining men in many fields, be it, academics, space, science etc. But women community has still not got its due. Women are subdued, humiliated and harassed in all walks of life.

The rate of violence against women is increasing at an alarming rate in India. What an irony it is that a country like India that boasts of so many Godessess Sita, Saraswati, Sati, Savitri, Maitreyi etc., tops the chart of brutality against women. Is this what our age-old culture teach us? No! we bend the rules for our benefits. It is so pathetic to watch and hear about the incidents of female foeticide, child marriage, honor killing, child abuse, molestation, rape etc.

The scenario of remote rural areas of India is unbearable. In few villages of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan etc., girl babies are burnt alive. Proper education and health care is not provided to them. They are christened with abusive names. From time immemoria , in Indian society, girls have always been considered a burden. She is not allowed to express her mind.

The situation in urban India is no better. Modern women have many insecurities and apprehensions. She has to be “Jill of all Trades”. She has to build a strong carrer and manage the household chores as well. Many “so-called good people” of the society claim that women are marching ahead. But how many and to what extent?

A woman can break all these shackles by developing the guts to speak for herself. Today the so-called feminist groups  can hardly become the voice of the exploited women. They take up women issues to come into the limelight. When the issues lose te interest of the media, they also vanish.

Lets pray for an INDIA where women are not only worshipped in folklores and epics but in reality as well. LONG LIVE DAUGHTERS!!