I have been dying to write a blog since the day I started this site. Today I do not like to find any excuse why shouldn't I write a blog.
Yesterday and today I read heart-breaking news in the newspaper and news sites. The news is about the murder attempt on Meena Kumari, an engineering student. As far as my knowledge goes this is the fourth time I heard such news from the same place, Vijayawada. The first victim is Sri Lakshmi, a MCA student brutally murdered by Manohar. The second being the murder of Lakshmi Sujatha, a news reader working for a private television and the third is the recent controversial Ayesha Meera's murder. The reason for these murders known till date is spurning the overtures of the murderers .
The moot question now is who is/are responsible for these incidents?????????????????
If one were to contemplate over this issue, where should it be started ?
I would like to start with the obsession boys have for girls. In fact there is nothing wrong being obsessed about girls..roaming, partying and romancing girls in fancy dreams. But when it comes to reality, there are limitations , to be precise in technical language, there are practical problems like synchronization and compatibility. Relations are often misunderstood and misinterpreted for obvious wrong reasons . I want to get married to some girl does not necessarily mean vice-versa. How simple is this logic!!!! And our insane idiotic fellow human beings could not understand this simple fact and went ahead with their own justifications to kill .
How far are girls/women responsible for such incidents????
Should not they know whom they are roaming with to the parties, cinema, club, pub etc... Should not they bother about the kind of friends they want to be with ? I don't think women are naive to understand the psychology of boys they roam with.
I would also like to talk about the invading or intruding western culture in our educational institutions. Are we not sensible enough to understand the incompatibilities of western culture with that of us??? MISS DAISY, MISS FRESHER, FRESHER'S PARTIES etc..., though add colour to the student life , one must know to what extent he/she must get involved. Girls and Boys are encouraged (to the wildest guess possible) to dance /booze in such parties. In a recent survey it is known that almost 70% of the girls lost their virginity in such occasions in foreign countries. It may not take much time to reach a comparable figure in INDIA. All the senseless attractions or likings start budding in such occasions and then problems of synchronization and compatibility like triangle or quadrangle love etc.. develop and later subsequently result in chaos.
Having discussed boys and girls , let us try to analyze the role of parents, teachers, police, television.
Its certainly not fair enough to blame the parents for the actions of their children. But should not they keep an eye on at least the relations their children are in? Now a days (some) parents of girls are under the wrong impression of broad mindedness. I know people who would allow friends (boys) of their daughters to stay in their home till late night and later faced problems.
In the case of murder of Sri Lakshmi , it is believed that one of the teachers of the college used to encourage the misbehavior of Manohar. I could not think of any thing more weird than this. Such acts on the teachers part are reprehensible. As per records Sri Lakshmi has lodged complaints on Manohar earlier for his misbehavior. Its ridiculous that the police could not trace Manohar even in the college. Even in Ayesha Meera's murder, the case has not been properly dealt by the police. Irresponsibility of the police in this regard is highly condemnable. A simple and straight forward question by any sane human being would be --What if the same happens to a big shot's daughter or a politician's daughter ?????????? Will the case be treated in the same way????????? The most unfortunate thing is that the murder is politicized to the maximum extent possible by some political parties. It is clearly evident that there are some invisible and invincible forces behind this murder. The Chief Minister himself was misled about the details of the case.
Finally, let us talk about the role of media, especially the electronic media. Almost all television channels have excelled the art of attracting people through crime based programs . They have hired expert people who could even modulate their tones and give the dts effect while narrating the crime incidents. I really fail to understand the real motive of such programs. It is a free video tutorial class for anybody who wants to indulge in similar activities. Should their be no ban on such programs??????????? Its just another example of the selfish motive of money-minded minds to increase their TRP ratings.
Such incidents when highly publicized, though would attract lot of condemn, would actually send wrong signals to the society. Now a days acid-attacks, man handling, murder attempts through dreadful weapons are understood to be the solutions for the scorn feeling girls have towards boys .
So, now what is the conclusion??????????
What / Who is responsible for such heinous and barbaric incidents?
All the above mentioned reasons are responsible to some or the extent. If not in the same proportion one factor may be less responsible that the other. On the whole its a mixed package of all the wrong reasons.
Let us hope the culprits would be punished and such events do not repeat.
2 comments:
Perpetrators of such crimes invariably regard the women involved as objects to be possessed, rather than as individuals. Such a perception, coupled with a criminal mind, can lead to such heinous acts of crime. The criminal mind has to be curbed, and there are laws and quanta of prescribed punishment for that. But the perception of women as objects of desire, has its roots, as you point out, in a deeper cultural rot. Perceptions of women are biased against women, even before the birth of the girl-child. Idiotic ideas about male superiority and the misplaced hypocritical belief that ours is an ideal society can also give rise to the perception that women are objects to be possessed. You have rightly pointed out that certain western ideas and thoughts can be totally out-of-context in Indian society and can have very harmful effects, especially on young adolescents. However, I wish to point out, that the traditional Indian society also has several wrong notions about women and is badly plagued by hypocritical ideas. The earlier we shed these notions and get rid of hypocrisy, the better it is for our own society.
Traditional Indian society had several wrong notions but as of now such notions(I believe )have been fading away.
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