SOCIETY YOU'RE A CRAZY BREED

With  the  recent  case  of   the  Delhi  gang  rape  the  double  standards  of  the  society  has  again  come  to  the  forefront. India  basically  follows  this  ideal:  Crime-protests-arrest-bail-no one cares- after one month no one even asks- repeat. And  this  is  what  exactly  happened  after  the  barbarous  crime  that  took  place  in  December 2012.  There  were  vigorous  protests  with  society( read only  women  and  some  radical  men  too) promising  to  change  but  voila! such  crimes  are  still on  rise. What  is  worth  thinking  is  such  occurrences  were  already  happening  in  the  society,  the  awakening  took  place  only  after  a  girl  sacrificed  her  life  brutally  and  what  is  more saddening  is the  fact  that such  things  are  still on  rise.  The  main  problem  lies  with  the  fact  that  people  forget  and  are  too busy  to  change  perspectives.  The  girl  died  and  in  a  way  we  all  killed  her. How?  In  a  society  like  ours  we  claim  that  we  respect  people  but  we  don't.  Be  it  a  man  or  a woman  we  always  value  our  own  thinking  more  than  the  others.  What  further  amuses  and  bewilders  me  is  the  fact  that  people  who  cant  use  a  slang  without  prefixing  mother  or  sister  in-front  celebrate  women's  day  and  claim  to  respect  women. What  are  we? Semi-gods  or  something? like  seriously?  Society  wont  change  with  protests  and  marches.

What  we  need  is  the  change  of  mindset.  With  too  many  pseudo  feminists  bashing  men  and  too  many  chauvinists  doing  the  same  nothing  is  going  to  change.  The  solution  however  does  not  only  lie  in  criticizing,  we  need  to  question  ourselves  as  to  what  we  are  doing  to  bring  the  change  that  we  are  shouting  for.  Sitting  in-front  of  the  computer  and  becoming  a  rebel  only  till  the  topic  is  hot  is  definitely  not  going  to  help. Like  they  say  charity  starts  at  home,  respecting  people  and  opinions  should  also  start  from  home  but  that  however  also  does  not  mean  that  one  should  lose  their  own  individualism  and  adhere  to  anything  that  inclines  towards  misanthropy  and  misogyny. Here  i  am  not  preaching  or  saying  that  i  have  never  done  anything  wrong  in  my  life.  We  are  humans  and  we  make  mistakes, claiming  to  be  a  great  proponent  of  change  and  not  doing  anything  to  bring  that  change  is  a  double  standard  display. The  least  that  we  can  do  is  to  change  ourselves  for  a  better  cause  to  remove  gender  disparities. I  don't  know  how  many  of  you  will  agree  to  the  same  but  yes  do  think  about  it.  As  for  me  the  girl  is  equivalent  to  the  figure  of  Christ  who  sacrificed  her  life  to  bring  an  awakening  and  hope.  Lets  try  our  best  to not  let  this  awakening  fade  out. She  died  and  many  of  us  will  in  the  same  way  if  we  don't  change  our  perspectives  and  thoughts. And  like  Gandhi  said  " be  the  change  you  wish  to  see  in  the  world".