Degrading Indian Morality

May be I can't do much about it, but i certainly have some humanity left to do my bit. Here i m putting the article which made me question the morality of our so-called "Indian Society". We take pride in claiming that we worship females but the reality is something else.........read it to believe it......


"I fell into the ditch by the side of the road. I called out for help. Some
strangers helped me to my feet. On the pretext of taking me to safety, they
moved me to a corner, surrounded me and started pawing me. It lasted for
over ten minutes. They had their hands inside my jeans. There were so many
men. I couldn't fight them off. They went off only when the cricketer's bus,
which had been stalled, moved on carrying the mob with it."
-Front page report in Times of India
Sept 28, 2007

Read it a hundred times and every time imagine these words being utterred by
a woman you love. Your mother, your sister, your daughter maybe! Even at the
end of the tenth iteration, you will not be able to match the horror of this
girl.

And read the last sentence well. This happened during the victory rally of
the Indian cricket team. While we celebrated, Ms. Neha Soni got molested on
Marine Drive.

No! Don't you dare ask where was the police? The police for your information
were on a 36 hour shift. Ya you read that right…36 hours non-stop. Ganesh
Visarjan followed by this victory parade! It wasn't the police who should
have acted but the people around her. No one noticed and its quite possible
that also is true. All attention was on the Team India bus. More than whose
to blame, the question is how the fuck do we stop this!

You might laugh at this but our alertness is the key. Not losing your face
in a faceless mob is the key. I preach but I preach from practice. Let me
prove it to you.

For nearly two months after the 11 July bomb blasts, I used to scan every
passenger, under every berth with my eyes. You see, I wanted to catch the
bastard who planted the bomb so badly, that I just didn't drop my guard. It
got to a point where I was once mistaken as an undercover cop. This proves
that even after being tired by an entire day's work, by the harassment of
your colleagues and bosses you can still be a cop in civvies. All you need
is alertness.

In my life, I have been witness to five 'incidents.' Two occurred on a BEST
bus and were minor, meaning the girl was only troubled by the man leaning in
a little too close. The moment I saw this, I raised my voice and asked that
unknown girl," Tai, tickets tujhya kade ahet ka?" (Elder sister, are the bus
tickets with you?) Just one single voice asking a simple question; both
times the man moved on.

The third happened in a train where a Muslim woman inadvertently got into
the gents compartment and the fourth incident had gullal thrown at a girl in
an empty BEST bus during Ganpati Visarjan. Alertness and maneuvering myself
between the lady and the man solved the third 'incident'. A traffic jam
which allowed me to get out of the bus and buy a bottle of clean mineral
water towash her eyes helped in the fourth one.

The fifth was where I failed. It was fatigue maybe, just mental exhaustion
but I sinned by taking a causal chalta hain attitude when a woman entering a
gents compartment was groped. Her husband was with her and he searched
unsuccessfully for the perpetrator. The groper just disappeared in the
platform crowd. I remember that lady's face and even though I couldn't have
done anything, I wish I had.

Molestations, rapes, dowry deaths are huge problems. No ones asking you to
solve an entire nation's problems. But when they occur in front of you,
SOLVE THEM! You are an Indian and the girl getting pawed is an Indian too!
She is your sister and someone has put a hand in her jeans! Act! Act now!

If you think that you don't have time for this "herogiri" just remember
these words of one of India's best Chief Ministers(Kerala) E.M.S
Namboodripad. He was asked how it felt to be the people's Hero:

We have no heroes and no heroines amongst us. Just common people called upon
to do uncommon things!

-Ishan I. Bhole