A Tribute To Nirbhaya

All of sudden I notice the date which flashed on my phone's screen- '16th December 2016'
The darkness which seemed soothing up till now starts haunting me......It's been 4 years since then but even now whenever I think of it, a chill runs down my spine......Four years past today, a human like us and a girl like me was molested so bad that it'd have pained even death to watch her suffer....At that time and in my three years of diary-writing session, that was the day when I wrote a four-page long entry. I was angry, scared, disappointed -all at the same time. Those pages still bear the stains of my teardrops shed in anxiety......There were questions- hundreds of them- that why one has to go through such pain, when death seems more comforting than life......What was her fault? What she did to deserve such misery?

After thinking for a while I decided that it's better for a girl to die in the womb than to go through a phase like this. People show sympathy, feel pity and title you as 'IMPURE' altogether.......On one hand they'll encourage you to fight, on the other hand they don't want someone like you to marry their sons. How contradicting, isn't it?

Here, it is not only the victim who suffers, but also her close ones. Imagine how difficult it would've been for a parent to see their child like this. The same child who was pampered and loved immensely all these years, whom they imagined in a red-golden wedding dress, walking up to the aisle. A day when all the stars in the sky couldn't shine brighter than her smile, when the chime of her anklets will pierce through the cacophony of trumpets and bagpipes......But now a scenario like this won't bloom into reality. Their daughter is not the same anymore, she'll not live a normal life anymore.....

Whom will you blame for her condition? Her karma, or those people who are guilty yet they don't have a speck of shame in their eyes, or the passer-by who could've helped her but backed out fearing from the consequences that followed? Are we so much faint-hearten that we always want to play a safe game?
Maybe we are.....

We sing tales of people who went out of their way to help others. But when such opportunity arrives before us, we prefer becoming an escapist.......It's easy to stand and give hour long lectures explaining what our duties is on the part of humanity but it requires spirit of a lion when it comes to fulfillment of the same........
We're certainly more concerned about ourselves, about our safety. We know that if something like this can happen to that girl then it can also come to us and we don't want that, do we? That's the sole reason why protests and candle marches follow once the news is broken in public.......

The same people who were cowards moments before now become outrageous and demand for justice. These protests will surely bring her justice and the guilty would be prosecuted but what we need to understand is that whatever damage has happened cannot be reversed....There is need for the society to change their mentality. There is need for educating people about the value of a women.......And at last, we have to understand that she deserves respect and safety not because she's a women but because she's a human too.....