Heard about a tragic incident last week.One of our relatives had a neighboring family consisting of a newly married couple and the husband's widowed mother.Since the wife,a young girl,came from a lower middle class family she could not meet the exorbitant demands for dowry made by her mother-in-law.Hence she was regularly tortured,both physically and mentally by her mother-in-law when her husband was away.At last she was killed by her mother in law who has been imprisoned since by the police.The husband married again and a girl has been born to him recently.She has been named Titli after the dead first wife.
It is amazing how such heinous crimes are still being perpetrated against the girl child in this so called 'civilized' country.Every hour that ticks by in India inflicts more brutality on women, with two rapes, two kidnappings, four molestations and seven incidents of cruelty from husbands and relatives, reveal the latest national crime statistics.The numbers are swiftly increasing.Even today,widowed women are burnt at their husband's pyres in rural Rajasthan-and we boast Sati has been abolished from India!!Girls as young as 6-7 years are being forcibly married off by their families for money.They are sold or are trafficked to distant countries like Saudi Arab or they become prostitutes.Is this the future of the girl child?Killed while still in their mother's wombs,unwanted,neglected,sacrificed and tortured in every steps..
We often forget it is they who,as our mother gave us our lives,as our sister protected us and became our ally in everything,as our wives shared our burdens,as our best friend gave us a shoulder to lean on and cry when life had no meaning for us-she is behind every man's success,she is the reason for our smiles,she is our companion,friend,philosopher and guide-where would we be without her?
So let us unite to stop the crimes against women and give her the respect and love which she deserves.Let us pledge ourselves to give little Titli a better world to grow up in-a new beginning,a new sunrise.....
What is most shameful for us is the prevalence of this brutality and disrespect towards women in the so called educated sections of our society...dowry deaths,molestation,rape,violation of minors and other brutalites are not uncommon in our 'refined' and 'educated' households...it is absolutely shocking...i really cannot understand how these individuals from the upper echelons of the society commit such heinous crimes...how to contain these atrocities i really don't know..because i don't think there can be any measures that can make these obnoxious people any better...there's only one way that comes to my mind...hang these bastards to the nearest light posts....!!!!
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