{UAH} Five years since Nirbhaya, her rapists are feeding in your tax, cooking in your daughter’s kitchen

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Five years since Nirbhaya, her rapists are feeding in your tax, cooking in your daughter's kitchen

 Avantika D,Mail Today Sun, Dec 24 4:48 PM EST 

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Hang the rapist

Since 1971, Indians have taken been celebrating December 16th as Vijay Diwas with heightened patriotism, soaring pride, and an expanding girth of chest.  This pride, however, stays eclipsed since 16th December 2012, the day India stood defeated by 6 demons as humanity yielded to a disgraceful, dreadful death.

It was not Jyoti Singh they disrobed; they denudated an entire nation. The rod was not inserted into that body alone, it pierced through the soul of this land, rendering the administration, judiciary, legislation impotent. The remainder of December 2012 witnessed countless protests held in cities worldwide. Rapes are not new in India, but something about the Nirbhaya case had sent tremors down its veins leaving it shaken to the core. The youth took to the streets, the parliament beheld as ministers broke down in tears. As Nirbhaya shut her eyes forever on December 29th, we howled, and hoped that finally there will be reforms, that the government will wake up to the sad state of our women.

Five years since that fateful night; India Gate is at peace now, protesters have left Raisina Hill, and silent marches of Kolkata are over. Nirbhaya have been awarded International Women of Courage Awards too. Apparently, a Nirbhaya Fund has also been set up. Oh yes, the governments – both state and center – have been dethroned and… well, that's about it.

The roads from malls, offices, schools to home remain to be daunting as ever; cabs, auto rickshaws, busses have turned worse. Don't miss to add schools to the list where teachers are raping 4 year olds in toilets. In 2015, Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, a 66 year old rape victim finally breathed her last after spending 42 years in persistent vegetative state following the assault. Shakti Mills gang rape in 2013, Badaun gang rape in 2014, Kandhamal gang rape case in 2015, Bulandshahr Gang rape in 2016, and Chandigarh gang rape in 2017 mock the paper tigers appointed for our protection. When women get raped in broad daylight in Vizag and onlookers choose to film it on smart phones, when father and brothers violate women inside her trusted four walls in Muzaffarnagar, we are reminded of the wild we have for a society. We are discounting the incalculable marital rapes because our sanskariparliament opines that it's the absolute right of a husband to force himself upon his wife at his sweet will – anytime, every time.

We have yet to see alterations in laws that instil fear of retribution in the hearts of those who look at women like a lump of meat no better than the one lying on their plate of biryani. Each time a capital punishment is proposed, human rights activists gather up in protest. Numerous repercussions are cited, misuses quoted. Countries infamous for their treatment of women leave us red-faced; North Korea awards a rapist with capital punishment, China castrates, and Saudi Arabia beheads. But in India, if at all they get arrested, what they get is next to a sarkari naukri, perhaps better – free food, free housing, free electricity for years at stretch. If wise enough, he may as well rape that girl returning from college just an hour prior to blowing the candles on his 18th birthday cake thereby compelling the government to treat the "juvenile" with food and lodging for three years before handing out a sewing machine or ticket down south to pursue a career as a cook. If you've vowed to feed them three meals a day till eternity, dear government, at least grant us the right to bear arms? No? Too much to ask? 

Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore have seen a steep rise in single women reaching the cities to work in MNCs. Before you click the next post, visualise a scene – Its 9 PM, your daughter is taking a shower after a long day at work. She is alone– except for a young cook in the kitchen. And he is the one  who pushed that rod inside Nirbhaya in the winter of 2012. Do you feel a chill run down your spine? YOU represent every hapless parent in India.

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