One year of brutality - What we gained and what we lost?

            It has been a year of Delhi medical student's gang rape and brutality shown by the rapists which highlighted India in the entire world last year. A 22 year bright student of medical just like Aruna Shanbaug came Delhi to fulfill her dreams, got her life suddenly changed on 16th December 2012 when 6 men kidnapped her and brutally gang raped her in a moving bus on coldest roads of the capital. She was raped thrice even in complete unconscious condition. One of them, supposed to be a minor, inserted a long iron rod deep into her vagina after raping her which caused very serious internal injuries and bleeding. I wasn’t aware of the incident until my Delhi residing friend SK sent me Whats App contents on 21^st December 2012. It was Friday and I was reaching home on my way. It was tough for me. I was trembling and I could not able to eat that night. Even on the second day when I went office, I could not able to eat anything in lunch time. I was feeling uneasiness and thinking how the girl was survived. On the same day I reached my hometown and saw the news channels covering reports around the India Gate and all over the country. The protest against the rapists were broke out in entire nation while the bedridden 22 year old victim was still alive, fighting against death and promising mom to fulfill her dream to be a doctor. But doctors reported about her internal injuries were quite serious and she would never consume food again in her life. If she would be fine, she would have to survive on liquid only. She wanted to live. Her amazing powers even made the doctors of AIIMS dazzled. She was taking the ventilator off from her face and trying to breathe herself. She succeeded but the medical news were still coming about her status which was nothing but “Stable yet critical”.

            The day when she was taken to the Singapore hospital, I hoped that everything would be fine and she would survive. But soon the news arrived on Sunday morning, on 29^th December 2012, she was declared dead by the medical officials of Singapore based hospital. She lost her life due to multiple organ failure. It was all over for the medical student who was fighting against death, wanted to be a doctor, wanted to punish the rapists….

        

    She was no more and left people in a deep pain. I broke my week long fast on Sunday which I had obtained starting from Monday, till the Saturday until I slept. I just prayed for the girl who was the bravest and under the recovery. I was hoping that the prayers of entire nation would work but it didn’t. Not even my week long fasts which I did for her sacred soul. It was all over. For a while I thought why did I pray to God when he is not here? If he was here, the woman would have been easily survived, all the accused would have been hanged and a citizen would think one lakh time before committing the heinous crime like rape. But it wasn’t all over after even after the incident. The news came all around the country about the gang rape, rape, molestations and the brutalities…

·         Girl was gang raped in moving car on the roads of Delhi…

·         Girl was thrown acid on her face on the Bandra Station, later succumbed to her injuries. Remember Preeti Rathi? (Click here to read story of Preeti Rathi)

·         Girl molested in local train early morning.

·         US citizen Michelle’s throat slit and her cell phone stolen by culprit in the first class compartment of local

·         Women journalist gang raped in Shakti Mill

·         Telephone operator working outside Shakti Mill was too gang raped

·         Woman died falling from local when thief tried to pull her purse & snatch her wrist watch in Central Railways who succumbed to injuries leaving behind only 20 year old daughter. Remember Aarti Gholapkar??? (Click here to read story of Aarti Gholapkar)

·         Mother was caught selling the virginity of her 13 years old daughter merely in 1 Lakh Rs in Mumbai

·         HIV positive 45 year old man raped his 7 year old nephew in Mumbai

·         Unmarried girl threw two dead fetuses in Bathroom in Vasai.

·         Vadapav seller threw acid on ex girlfriend’s face.

·         84 year old men and 70 year old women tried to break virginity of 4 year old daughter of their neighbor when she was regularly playing with them.

·         Teenager gang raped on Hindu new year occasion.

·         Recently, 14 years old girl commits suicide after being a victim of Social networks.

·         Woman attacked in ATM machine in Bangalore.

·         Similarly woman gang raped and her eyes were removed

·         Tarun Tejpal

·         Supreme court retired judge molested woman

            With all those different news, we are hoping that one day everything will be fine. Some incidents even make us proud. When a daughter of an auto driver becomes a Chartered Accountant appearing top and a girl living in Kamathipura, which a heaven of prostitutes, flies to London for further studies in chemistry, I hope when I will have my daughter, I will be able to let her play in the garden alone. But it seems almost impossible. With the death of the medical student, I decided to keep on my fasts continue on each 29^th of a month, not to pray to God but to protest the incidents like those, to protest the system, to protest myself for not being able to stop all these nonsense and to protest the God who is here and silently watching the show.

"I hope you are fine somewhere. I am happy that you left this cruel country where humanity is dead and rape has become a profession more than a crime. I wish when you will smile, every woman living here will smile and one day they will be able to live free and truly independent life..."