India's Daughter & Her Plea to God

I woke up on this Saturday morning and was just browsing through the Facebook news feed which made it difficult for me to scroll down and read all old stories. The documentary which was surprisingly banned by the government - PS freedom of speech, was thankfully live. I knew most of its content and decided not to watch it for I already knew what those so called men had to say. But then, I decided on not becoming the pigeon who hide his face in sand and think no one can see him, I finally gathered the courage to watch it.

I have no words to express myself: except some questions and comments on various snippets:

The lawyer says - 

"If you put the flower in gutter, it would spoil..."

Did you know our national flower lotus blooms in mud?

"If you put flower in a temple, it would be worshiped..."

Do you  know the fate of those worshiped flowers afterwards? How they are thrown in same gutter to rot?

The rapist himself says there is nothing good about the guy called Vinay.

Does it justify their rotten mentality?

The accused further says "He has wife and kids and he cries that what would happen?"

Oh really! He thinks of someone as human?

The lawyer continues,

"That girl was with some unknown boy..."

Realty check... He was her friend.

Well, he doesn't stops here, according to him, "the woman is you immediately put sex in his eyes."

Oh yes, beauty lies in the eyes of beholder and do does the invitation to have sex in the body of woman.

The guy who committed suicide in jail has left his poor old parents behind him. He was the only support they had.  The father was admitting that it was some mistake of some man if not his own son. 

But what was Ironical that - the mother was trying hard to protect his son. She even snapped him trying to stop him saying something. Agreed that she is a mother, but still, she is a woman also. I am also a mother and believe me mata Ji, he was not no help to you. He used to drink alcohol, party and go to Gb road for some fun with the money which could have fed you for days.

The accused says, "It was done to reach them a lesson! Accidental!"

Oh, an accident. The lesson to the question they asked the boy, "What are you doing with a girl at night?"

Which greek god- oh i am so sorry! You belong to Indian Culture. Which Indian god sent you from heaven to perform your noble task and teach lessons to people by ripping them apart? I thought god has decided to stay away after he his close encounter as and with humans - Ram  to his wife Sita and Krishna to his sister Draupadi.

I completely agree with the lawyer  who says that men do it thinking that "It is our right and we do it in the enjoyment mode.". The specialists argue they this is how they have been brought up. They have seen insult to their mothers and sisters since their childhood.

Did they also enjoyed it when their father used to beat their mother? Were they not afraid as a child when their parents quarrelled and their mother was swollen with wounds?

Them there is also the clipping of a woman. I did not feel angry on poor woman who is so confident of her husband being innocent. The video very part continued with "Hosh Mein aao" message shouted by protestors.

She is concerned about her son's future. Please dear lady, get out and look for some work. Admit you son into a school and make sure he doesn't bunk it like his father did. Sitting at home, crying and asking stupid questions would not help either.

The accused with no remorse or fear continues, "The death sentence would not help any woman. Now if some commits rape, he would not leave her like us, would just kill her."

Oh really, you left her alive! Let's put you in the same condition and allow you to live.

I know I might look another frustrated woman ranting non-stop in each sentence, but this is what I feel after watching the documentary and after every incident of insult to womanhood.

I seriously hope that I am able to inculcate deep respect towards women in my son and raise him like a human not as a MAN.