Comments on: Save Her; Let Her Live too!

By: Tanu Sinha

Tanu Sinha — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:04:11 +0000

Well said indeed!!

I feel the root cause of all evil against women in our country or across the globe is the OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN…

We are not treated as human beings…we are treated as SECOND GRADE CITIZENS OF THIS SOCIETY AT LARGE….women have always been ojects of desire……..”SOMETHING” ONE WANTS TO OWN..mind “SOMETHING”!!!

They say that all the major wars of this world are fought on three counts - Jar, Joru, Jameen. Jar/zar = gold, Joru = wife/woman, Jameen/zameen = land. This is where it lies………..it has always been like it.

On this platform, my only appeal to all is “GUYS…TAKE A BREAK…..ITS TIME TO GIVE THEM SPACE…LET THEM BE….WE ALSO WALK THIS EARTH IN FLESH AND BLOOD….ITS NOT ALL ABOUT POWER ALL THE TIME…..COZ EQUATIONS CAN CHANGE!!!!

Poo….great writing…keep writing…way to go baby!!

By: Santosh

Santosh — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:18:30 +0000

People don’t realize that there’s a “D” before”evil”. The devil is capturing all our empty spaces of our mind thru the media by highliting any kind of relationships, Old with very young, young with very old(remember the movie Cheeni kum, The relationship and the conversations between Bachhan and his 7 yr old friend) as justifiable. And when these things happen regularly over a period of time people feel that’s theirs nothing wrong if a 40 yr old has a relation with a 10 yr old. And thus they feel that getting physical is also not a problem.
Pooja I think if the media starts to highlite the good things the father’s and relatives do with their daughter’s and son, the issue becomes somewhat addressable. But for that the definition of NEWS(Common thing done by a uncommon man and uncommon thing done by a common man) itself needs to be changed…
Also as a Church together we can fight for the cause in Christ’s name.

By: Archana

Archana — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:14:26 +0000

Dear Pooja, your strong words are totally justified. I agree with Vinay when he says that its both girls and boys who fall victim to abuse. In fact it is an even more sorry state of social norms when it comes to boys who speak about physical abuse. Recently, I saw a two hour programme aired on one of the nonsensical hindi newschannels which was about a man accusing his wife of raping him. The man had filed a complaint in the police station and instead of probing what happened, the policeman and his constable were showing laughing uncontrollably. The man’s wife was absconding and their neighbours were laughing too. The channel even made a cartoon of it all. It was delporable.

Hope you’l write a second instalment on this issue Pooja and explore the atrocities men face too. Keep it up

By: spandan

spandan — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:52:08 +0000

A very heavy,hard hitting and heart breaking article.Such bitter realities shake one from the core and make you want to cry out and ask why?why has man hardened himself to such a degrading extent.Its horrifying to hear and read about such happenings.Seems as if we are all nurturing hell on earth.STOP.Let us strive to put a stop to all such inhuman acts which is threatening the life of God’s precious creation-woman.Let us not just let a tear or two roll out…but let us use the public power,which the writer highlights,to fight against this injustice before it devours us all.Saving one’s own daughter or sister will never eliminate the evil.So as an individual and a society of humane humans,lets join our hands to fight against these evils rather than being indifferent to them.We must pray that the quality of respecting women and girls by every individual maybe inculcated to an infectious or should i say inspirational level through all the means possible.

By: Vinay

Vinay — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:47:54 +0000

While rape cases are prominently splashed across newspapers, incest, which is equally ubiquitous, hardly gets reported. Cases like the Austrian father are plenty around us but the poor victims are hardly able to speak it out. But the question to be asked is about how and why so inhuman (and more so an animal) is man becoming when it comes to lust? The pain, the fear and the insecurity a girl or a woman goes through after the mishap is unimaginable.
At the same time, even young boys studying in religious institutions and boarding schools under the so-called ‘guardians’ have been victim to such heinous crimes (not mention being silent victims to incest). While such cases have surfaced at times, they usually go unnoticed.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not about who is more a victim, boy or girl, but the larger question is why they are? I don’t know the answers as well, but I believe God through our consciences is always trying to answer them. Maybe, we need to hear him more.
And as Geo says above, there are countless model fathers and brothers (and mothers and daughters) who can lead the society by examples.

By: Geo

Geo — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:28:55 +0000

Very strong words. But have you not lashed out at the fathers and brothers who are not really the monsters that you have called them…?there are countless many who treasure their daughters and sisters and make life a worthy and meaningful experience for them…
But yes I also agree with the issue raised…the kind of news that flows in daily, the nation (worldover) surely seems to be selling out to lust and numbing up…