A battle to be fought on two fronts!
- on Legal / Political front and on an Individual front
On one hand
the incident represents a complete failure of police, law, and political
leaders and on the other hand it is a social failure – failure of our society.
From the
current movement we can assure that people have realized the importance and
need of fighting the battle at legal and political level. On this front we need
to fight against the Hitlerism of Govt., open ‘Gunda Raaj’ of Police force, and
loss democratic rights. Hence, we will not discuss it here.
But we must
also realize at the same time that it is a social failure. What do we mean by a
social failure..?
Social
failure is a phenomenon where different individuals fails to do their work –
parents, friends, teachers, sisters, wives, mothers, brothers, and peers.
Failure of
parents to inculcate values (respecting dignity of an individual without
gender/caste/social status) in their children – not referring to girls but the
boys (individuals) who commit such crimes.
Failure of
friends to discourage such thoughts / discussions / activities which eventually
lead to such major crimes. (Here not only boys but girls can also contribute significantly
– we are sure that each one of us know what we talk and encourage in our talks)
Failure of teachers
to create an environment where each individual is given due respect – starting
from teachers giving due respect to students (without any discrimination).
Failure of
sisters / mothers / wives to raise their voice against every instance of
domination, especially from males in the family/society. Raise voice and not
tolerate domination from a male whether he is her brother / father / husband or
son. A female doesn’t need to fight (in literal sense) with their family
members but talk / explain / convince / negotiate with them to give them
due respect.
Failure of
brothers / peers to guide / talk / stop their peers at each and every occasion
whenever they feel the need. Also, there is a failure of each male in the
family/society to support females in getting their due respect. When a
sister/mother/daughter is fighting for their rights it is responsibility of the
brother/father/son to support her.
Failure of
an individual to be a ‘human being’ – ignoring crimes / victims / incidents
until they affect him/her directly.
On one hand
when we continue with rally / protest asking for the rights / justice, we
must also start the long fight / actions at our own houses / family /
school / college / friend-circle.
As a lawyer
/ policeman / politician / criminal – is a brother / son / father / uncle /
friend of someone in the society and after all a human being. And when they
fail to do their job all of us around have failed to perform our
responsibilities at some level…
Let’s fight…
Let’s start with correcting our own acts first…
