BY NOLAN PINTO
When I wake up, the first thing
I do as usual these days is to check tweets. Lovely source of information in a
jiffy, I can then read more in detail the stories that interest me. But
something caught my eye and I was aghast. The story of a woman tourist gang-raped
by 2 groups of men repeatedly for over three hours on Christmas eve.
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It was reported in a news
channels online page that on Dec 27,11 of the 15 accused have been arrested so
far that included a juvenile. The victim, who hails from Tamil Nadu, along with
her woman relative was waiting for a friend at a bus stand in Karaikal, when a
15-member gang tried to abduct them. While her relative managed to escape, she
was taken to a secluded place and gangraped. The accused let her off later.
Now, lets get to it. She is
just 20 years old. I want to ask why no media channel went big on it? Did this
gang rape by not 2 or 3 men but by 15 allegedly not seem juicy enough to gain
TRPs? Or was it simply because this happened somewhere way down South and that
it was not the target market? Or was it too down market, not your up market Delhi?
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Whatever it is, it seems the
new stringent laws have had no effect whatsoever to deter rapists. Nope, none
at all. In fact, we keep hearing about rapes and gang rapes like everyday news
so much so that, nothing is novel about it anymore.
I mean, her life is lost. I am
not being a pessimist here but just stating the facts. It will take years of
counselling for her to come out of this and then she will find it really hard
to trust a Man.
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What sort of a country we are
living in I sometimes wonder? Where we do not respect a woman and rather have
fun irritating, hurting, raping and murdering them each and everyday. Its
strange since we are not born of Men but begin our lives in the womb of a
woman. And its a woman who brings us up, cares for us and loves us the most, at
least 99 percent of the time.
Yes, as a man, the urge to get it out is there at
times but we are civilized human beings, not dogs on the road to go hump
anybody we see. I am so angry with those men who give the rest of us a bad
name, each and everyday.
To make matters worse, a
DMK-MLA called this some sort of prostitution. Alright, if investigations do
find that it was, does it mean she didn't have a right? By saying she is a
prostitute, does not mean she can be used however they deem fit.
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Sometimes I wonder, if the
problem lies in the law again. Can we not especially for rape, castrate
those men? Let's do that for sometime and see how it works. I bet this fear
will stop would be rapists right in their tracks. What say? After all, only
desperate times call for desperate measures.
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I hope that nameless victim
recovers and leads a life she wanted to, properly without fear. Easy to wish
but I pray she does lead a normal good life. And those of you who are reading
this, how safe would you feel venturing out on New Year's knowing that the
woman with you- be it your wife, sister, girlfriend, mother could simply be
abducted and abused with no one simply giving a damn?
It has just been a year since the Delhi Gang Rape. Are we
willing to forget it so soon? 
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