In Jammu , when the government decided to withdraw the land given for Amarnath temple lot of riots and public attention followed.Not to mention the hartals...that too across the country!
In Orissa when a young adivasi woman was stripped in public,what did follow? Except for a few women activists arguing for “women's rights " and a 36- hour general strike called by the All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam, has anybody seen any common man involving in such fights for justice? Any hartals?
The state government generously declared a compensation -“The Adivasi woman who was stripped will be given Rs 1 lakh as compensation and a job in the government.”
Ok. Now what will follow? What would be the attitude of the colleagues if she joins the so-called job offered in the government. Will she get the respect due for her? Who'd marry her? What about the condemned looks she'd have to bear for the rest of her life?
Would it be same if instead of the adivasi woman, it was the first lady who got stripped? Would the reverberations be same?Is it the adjective that matters and not the fact that both of them are women and equal amount of humiliation is shoved to both??
Even stronger public reaction would have sprouted if the lady who's been stripped was a Hindu and the stripper a Muslim or vice versa.
In Orissa, a nun was burnt alive.Lots of riots and public attention followed.When the news was out , one of the channels even carried the headline that Christian authorities confirm that the woman burnt alive was not a nun ! So its only the “nun” part that matters!Nothing humane -what say?
Anybody else finding it equally intolerable to be part of such a country / culture?
In Orissa when a young adivasi woman was stripped in public,what did follow? Except for a few women activists arguing for “women's rights " and a 36- hour general strike called by the All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam, has anybody seen any common man involving in such fights for justice? Any hartals?
The state government generously declared a compensation -“The Adivasi woman who was stripped will be given Rs 1 lakh as compensation and a job in the government.”
Ok. Now what will follow? What would be the attitude of the colleagues if she joins the so-called job offered in the government. Will she get the respect due for her? Who'd marry her? What about the condemned looks she'd have to bear for the rest of her life?
Would it be same if instead of the adivasi woman, it was the first lady who got stripped? Would the reverberations be same?Is it the adjective that matters and not the fact that both of them are women and equal amount of humiliation is shoved to both??
Even stronger public reaction would have sprouted if the lady who's been stripped was a Hindu and the stripper a Muslim or vice versa.
In Orissa, a nun was burnt alive.Lots of riots and public attention followed.When the news was out , one of the channels even carried the headline that Christian authorities confirm that the woman burnt alive was not a nun ! So its only the “nun” part that matters!Nothing humane -what say?
Anybody else finding it equally intolerable to be part of such a country / culture?
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