When Will Our Women Be Safe?!

1. 'Bihar shelter home girls alive: CBI to SC.'

2. 'Kochi girl found murdered near Valparai, friend held.'

3. 'Three held in connection with changing room video clip.'

4. 'Gang rape victim commits suicide.'

5. 'Dalit woman raped, murdered in Gujarat.'

Found these five headlines on a single day - in today's newspaper (The Hindu). If these many events get reported by a single newspaper on a single day, how many crimes must be happening against women and how many would have gone unreported?! What is India if not its famed culture and morality, if not its emphasis on values and ethics???

On one side, we are bragging about the greatness of India, while on the other, all the values and morals that defined India are trampled upon every other day. 

I was remembering this shloka with pain -

'Yatra naryastu pujyante ramante tatra Devata, 

Yatraitaastu na pujyante sarvaastatrafalaah kriyaah'

(Gods find their abode where women are respected, and where the women are disrepected no action bears fruit).

 

Enough of shouting 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'. Can we first stop molesting and murdering her daughters?!