Hope, Pray, Faith (Poem dedicated to Nirbhaya)

“I closed my eyes and found myself in heavens,

Away from a cruel world, now I am falling here

This is safer and more secured,

I’ve been an angel and staying near the lord

Now I am the part of his family,

Where no one is jealous of my beauty

I am free and I am careless,

This place is full of kindness

I can run here and there,

I sing a song that makes me brave

My tears have been wiped up,

I am once again growing up

Oh there is no one here to stop

There is no one here to be the boss

I am more independent,

And I am no more dependent

Now look at me I am smiling anyway,

‘Cause you people pray for me everyday

But there is something that pains in my heart,

As my poor parents have forgot to laugh

I promised them to come back very soon,

But I succumbed to my wounds

The scars I got, I never forget,

The ‘promise’ I made them, I’ll always regret

Nothing is changed even with the revolution,

My sisters are dying and being a ‘thing’ of ‘celebration’

How many brave ‘Nirbhayas’ in this country will be lost?

Who will melt the people’s hearts those are under deep frost?"

Two years of brutality.... 16th Dec 2014.

16^th December, a horrible night that only heartless people can forget. The day when a beloved daughter of this country was brutally gang raped but the situation never changed in the country. From Nirbhaya gang rape to Uber Cab rape, the incidents are unstoppable and no one is able to control the situation. As the last day, Mumbai Mirror reported about a 5 year old girl who was sexually molested by her classmate. I wonder how 5 year old kid knows about molesting! The social media, WhatsApp, movies have changed the atmosphere in the country. The broad minded people protest when they are asked about the same but some parts of the society have still not accepted them. Just like one of the villages in Maharashtra that banned women wearing gowns because the locals feel very uncomfortable when they see them in such condition. Last year, mannequins were banned in the city as they looked too provocative.

Kolkata teen gangraped twice

But all things stop at a single stop. Rape. Stalking is very common things between the people. I have seen all kinds of people who never miss the chance to stare women. From a teenage to an elder one, all men I believe have been the same in recent times. I even see very old men watching porn contents in front of all people in locals. They do not feel shy, they do not feel uncomfortable and they say that they are not doing anything wrong. One of the recent incident happened in local was really strange. A young boy was watching porn content on his mobile phone in Virar bound train from Churchgate. There was a woman sitting in front of him. He didn’t even care about her and kept watching the porn content, probably sent on his WhatsApp application. Very soon, the commuters protesting that guy in compartment and asked him to stop watching the porn as there was a woman. He even protested the commuters saying that there is a facility for women to board in their own compartment then why did she came here? He was a Marathi and so he was spared. I believe if he had been a Gujarati or a North Indian, he would have been beaten very brutally. This was strangest thing!

There are many things those are increasing the obsession amongst the people. Just like few days ago I received a media of Borivli station where a woman was continuously smooching her lover sitting on a bench. Well, you’re in love and you’re expressing it on a platform like Borivli, it is gonna be a big news. Several commuters were stopping there just to watch them including the kids were continuously staring that couple. I am not against them, I am not against women but I am against the situation. The situation has been worst in present times. Awareness is very important because laws are never changing and so the incidents like Nirbhaya are not stopping…