Wake up call.

Every single day i open the newspaper i find a new thing to disgust me. Dirty politics, un-healthy legislation , oppression , farmer suicides , corruption and most lately, rape. Every single day , in some paper or the other this ugly word comes up, often in the headlines. And every single day all of us when we read about all this utter Bull Sh*t happening around us, in our country or even in our neighborhood itself, we shake our heads, take another sip of our morning tea and say ' This country is going to the dogs".

What are we going to do about it? The laws in our country are often made by politicians , some of them with barely any qualifications and they make our laws, they form the government. They govern us. This is the fact of life, they determine what is right, wrong, legal , illegal. They say you can be only as good as your representative is. Look at your representative. Is that really the person you want representing you? A number of legislations today that have caused an uproar are still going strong, take for example the reservation of 50% seats for 5% of the countries population. What ever happened to the concept of merit? Or has it disappeared? Give scholarships. But reservations?

Rape is a fundamental social evil. And yet it is happening around us. Let's be frank about this. If seven years minimum term in jail is not enough to deter anyone from forcibly indulging in a forced intercourse, what is? Capital punishment? What will that cure? The offender will die in an instant, but the girl, specially being Indian will suffer for the rest of her life.

The story of her humiliation will be printed in all the papers, her family members will be interviewed and a hundred questions will be asked. A few questions will be shot on her character and a few more on her carelessness. The trial will be painfully long and at the end of it, she will be no where. Today in our days of 'open mindedness'' we really do not mind a partner for life who has engaged in sexual intercourse prior to marriage. But what about a rape victim? Will she be accepted in any family? And whats her fault in this? But do people realize this? Not really. What about her future? Are they all gone? just like that in a flash? Fifteen minutes back she was a girl with a life, a proper future and now is that all gone? Will she even complain? Can she expect compassion from the local Constable she goes to lodge and FIR with? How will she look at others in the eye after being scarred? Both physically and emotionally?


And what are we to do about it? Sit around and shake our heads? Do nothing? For once i know i wont. I want to educate people, i want to tell them the consequences of their actions. I want the victims to know that they will get all the support they want. It's upto us, we the youth today to do all this. Our inaction today can be our undoing tomorrow. It could be our sisters or daughters next in the future. The future is ours they say. It's time we did something about it. I know i will.