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Every 7 minutes a Woman is Harrassed

     

Isn’t this the saddest statistic of India? Oh well after poverty, hunger, crime………oh shouldn’t have started this!

But treatment of women has degraded in India and has reached quite abyssmal levels. Stories of rape, molestation and even harrassment abound, but are rarely reported. As P Vasudha says, Indian media should definitely give women’s issues more mileage than they presently do.

`What happened today’ was that a young schoolboy blew a kiss to my friend as he crossed her in a busy street.

Yes, my friend was brave enough not to turn and look the other way. She went up to the teenaged boy and slapped him across the face. But the dozen or so people standing in the vicinity remained mere spectators. Why didn’t anyone feel indignant at the impudence of the yet-unshaved brat?

And then she asks:

Has society accepted such acts of men, and even boys, as regular and customary? Yes, I believe we have.

The question is very pertinent, and I can’t deny Vasudha’s answer. We, as a society, have accepted rape as a common event and are not giving it the alarm and attention it is due.

As Vasudha says, we even have movies in virtually any Indian language where a rapist is asked to marry the victim – the victim of course has no say, and the rapist is even forced to marry her by the village elders calling it ‘justice’!

Vasudha suggests a way out for women.

There is an urgent need for women to break the stranglehold of societal norms and give voice to their own concerns. Women have to militate against the parochial mindset of society and de-internalise the myth of the superiority of the male.

But I really don’t think that the solution is as simple as that. Militating against the anti-woman ethos of the society can target only certain aspects such as eve-teasing.

But rapes will continue for it is not society that is the villain, but individual criminals in this case. These need greater measures to contain.

What do you think will improve the quality of an Indian woman’s life?

6 Responses to “Every 7 minutes a Woman is Harrassed”

  1. sreedharan says:

    The Brainwashing by Media and Feminazies has created an army of brainwashed clones.

    Media, Feminazies, and these clones have SPAMed, Destroyed Lives of thousands of innocents via Misinformation and distortion of information on 498a.

    Even today, Media suppresses 498a stories and Supreme Court has come down heavily on Media for publishing false dowry cases as genuine ones.

    People who destroy other’s lives, drive old and sick people to misery and death for remaining political correct are disgusting.

    The simple solution is:
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    Do not change 498a.

    But, argue for heavy punishment to women who file false cases and for Lie detection, Brainmapping test on the accused (cost being paid by accused). Simple is not it ?

    498a is not any other civil law. It is also not like any other criminal law. Its one of its kind. In no other law, people are arrested without proof or evidence.

    It does not matter if it is one case or 10 thousand. Do not change the law, but give punishment to people who misuse laws.

    Last year, 60,000 cases of 498a are filed. SIF claims 90% are false. Even if we say 5% are false, then there are 3000 false cases and there are 3 people for every case suffering.

    If we assume 5% are false, then 15,000 people suffering, getting jailed “for being principled” and “for not taking dowry” and media hides it under carpet. But, it blows up stories of 3,500 bar dancers(I have nothing against bar dancers or stripe tease). I would like to conclude that Indian Media has come out worse than Indian Politicians. So, our democracy is in real danger.

    If all laws are misused, then those how are victimised by law are forced to take law into their hands and they know law can be misused. Where will it all lead to ?

    Indian Legal System lets Murderers and Rapists go scot free and yet 15,000 innocent people(mostly elders) are tortured in jail(if I take normal person’s assertion that 5% cases are false).

    Do you feel Indian Media is “balanced” ? Why should people be balanced when it achieves NOTHING.

    There are people crying everywhere about Corruption in a “Balanced” and “matured” manner. Did any improvement happen ?

    “Balanced” talk makes “unbalanced” thick skinned people to get used to it.

    Misandry, just like Misogyny will not help the society. Negativity has never trasformed anyone into a positive entity. Why do we assume in a “balanced” manner that large scale misandry will create better Men ? It may or it may not.

    What if it does not ? Then, it is going to be one more social problem.

    Feminism has its relevance. But, today Gender Equality is Politically correct. But, feminists have not become “balanced” and still they remain in a domain of “urgency” and “alarmism”. That is defeating the cause of “Gender Equality”.

    I am straight talking to a person, “God forbid (I pray), if you (being a believer of Gender Equality) and your complete family get implicated in false 498a, get jailed and run around courts for years even though you are very principled and caring to your wife, then how will you feel and what will you do ?”

    Will you say,”Its OK for all of us to get jailed, after all the law is helping thousands of other women” ?

    But, when you find that true victims are not getting any help from this law as this law puts husband and his family behind bars, then what will you do ?

    Then, when you realise that true dowry givers do not file 498a because, they want to recover the money and they know they will lose the dowry money if the case is filed and it runs for 10 years, then what will you do ?

  2. Swarup says:

    First of all we must want to decided , we want whole sale free lincence for doing the terrorist activity or a harmoney .

    Like in the name of fenisim , we observe legal terrorism in india :-

    Do you know what is Feminism ?? We have seen and observed a lot of Feminist activity in India and the meanning of the Feminism in India as under :-
    Feminism means Whole Sale Free Lincence of Adultrity Relationship.
    Feminism means Whole Sale Free Lincence to grab the Husband Money by Legal Terrorism .
    Feminism Means Whole Sale Free Lincence for Killing the Child .
    Feminisam Means Whole Sale Free Lincence for refuse to give the Child Mother Milk .
    Feminism menas forcing a Child to Grow under Single parenting System .
    Feminisam means Elder abuse – sending age old , sick Parents out of house .
    Feminism means sending Child and Pregent Sister to the jail without any Investigation .
    Feminism means to make the Institution of Marriage to a legal Postitution ( Live in relationshp )
    Feminism means to hide the actual truth . … like that a lot more are there!!
    So we all a group of SIF Volenters form of IIT ,IIM ,IT and Honest Industry People say :

    No to Feminism , we want to say Gender Equality .

    No to Domestic Violence Bill , we want Domestic Harmoney Bill to stop the legal Terrorism .

    Let all the nation to Decided , what they Want , Volence or harmoney ??

    Let Save Indian Family , Let save the Institution of Marrige for a Better tomorrow for our Child .

  3. Swarup says:

    National Women Commission of India (NCW), openly announce that they will not allow to any family harmony in India, they will ensure that the Indian Institution of Marriage totally get killed, so that Indian women can reach to National Highways to beg a men for 2 or 3 hours or a part time father for their child, the way western women does!!
    We wonder when our Indian People will say no to this “Legal Terrorism” and stop killing our Mother, Sister and Child in the name of so called Women Empowerment.

  4. Swarup says:

    A Indian women can rape a MAN in her own home in open light as per Indian LAW ( check the law ) and for that for get any punishment , there is no provision of a small warning to them, that is the reson we can see a lot of women raped by men in streets as indian men does not have any lincence to have sex to any one ( by paying also) , but indian women have , all the whole sale free lincence .

    Till the time a law does not based on crime based , it will never stop the crime and criminal will not get punishment , but we wonder our law maker understand this ??

  5. Infact, the problem is our Indian ppl are poisoned by radical
    Feminists organisations dangerously for a decade. Whether a male or
    female, a child doesn’t know. They acquire knowledge through the society.
    Current society contains most vultures in the form of radical Women NGOs
    as self-centered. Continuos spread of hatred towards a man and dowry made
    these little children prone to poison. Dowry is a social custom in India for
    centuries. Crime by dowry DEMAND is nothing but greed.
    we already have laws for cheating, greedy, characterless fellows. why this
    498a? and that ‘mental tension clause’ …nothing but CORRUPTION.

    If you see a women around 18 or 20+ and she is straightly, against a
    man and male society (misandry). Though, she is brought up by her father,
    brother. still, she says men are BAD/CRUEL. It is not their fault. These
    vultures should be brought to justice. If they were in USA, by now
    they would have met their fate. Almost devastated the culture of India.

    There is no way for an Indian men to escape bad marriage or bad wife
    without hicking up himself into big trouble? Even men want to
    separate in the first year…several years with several lakhs of rupees
    has to be given for such women. How many young generation boys know about this?
    Forget about child custody for fathers in India for such marriages.It easily takes
    atleast 5 yrs. of rigorous legal battle JUST TO GET RID OF BAD(or adultery) wife in
    India. How many unmarried Indian boys know this? These men already
    created an image of SITAs in their heart for INDIAN WOMEN. How many
    young men know, how dangerous, marriage in India is? There are many cases like
    http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar152006/city2010262006314.asp
    Many other young men are starved of sex, their perspective towards looking at
    home hasn’t changed.

    IPC498a is enacted by legislation a decade back and marital discord
    between men and women raised tremendously. Many women were not capable of
    earning, but learn about this law by parents for their selfish reasons.
    Men being not happy with wives, under 498a threat from time to time. Men
    who are in threat are greatly public servants,social ppl, highly educated,
    scientists in urban areas participating infrastructure design for the
    country. what happens when these ppl.are not healthy in living? That
    naturally got affected on the rural areas. No proper planning, infrastructure
    affected, wisdom got lost and the country led to 48% poverty level now(eating one meal in
    a day) and population increase. Other side, Some men can act like
    http://www.saveindianfamily.org/blogs/category/stories/ig_radha/ to
    counter. There is no other way round.

    Hooligans/goondas,politicians and evils in society doesn’t have problem
    of IPC 498a. They know how to handle in-laws (jungle raj)
    What happened to cases filed against advani/thackeray/haryana chief minister
    and many more figures?!!

    Some ppl. still think that, society is better than developed nations,
    though we face several problems(polulation, poverty, crime etc.,);
    still country is surviving and OK. It looks OK.

    BUT I WARN, there is a limit on everything. We are not far away from
    heavy disaster or calamity which can’t be even thought. All
    intellectuals leave the county for minimal standards andbrain drain.
    Social-engineering sense mitigated ppl. continue to rule the country.
    country leads to graveyard. we may be almost there.

    To add gas to fire, domestic violence bill is introduced. sec-3 is
    designed very dangerously. women can obtain home of in-laws and throw them
    out. how many ppl. know about this Domestic violence?? This will be another
    498a in India,if adopted in current form.

    what these vultures wanted from india. They are indians too. Even if
    they are funded by western interests, they should not have sacrificed
    India for the whole purposes. Foreigners, who directly ruled India are
    far better than these ppl, who have already poisoned the society.
    Will there be a punishment to their children in the form of accidents.

    Currently, on an average 52% divorces in the first 5 years of
    marriages all over urban cities have started (from 2005). who take
    responsibility for this? Many children are with single parenting.
    Singel parent children are more prone to crimes in any culture by
    statistics. Many elderly ppl. who gave everything to their children
    sacrificing their life and earnings and happiness are homeless due to
    this law or are living themselves. Do these vultures take responsibility
    for this?

    Marriage and divorces are purely personal in nature or relation.
    Every individual got ‘Rights’ over it. who are feminists
    organisations to involve in compromising or resolving such issues.
    who are these dictators over person’s life.? Stop this non-sense.
    The problem is INDIAN MEN themself. They became so foolish, that they
    are not able to understand, how their health has became supporting these
    NGOs. Today, Diabetes rates for Indian men is one among
    largest in the world. Their faces are rotten and pale.

    For each 498a, on an average, there is atleast 1 lakh of money being
    spent in urban area by the family for various reason from corruption
    to bail. In higher middle class families, where good earning is
    there, the expense spent easily goes to 10lakhs. Wife has to be
    compensated for quashing the case –till– to court clerk. If an NRI
    is caught by the police, excellent day for the bad ppl. Several lakhs of
    rupees being spilt.
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?
    msid=136812

    If one notices, many women NGOs, politicians are behind NRIs, stating
    provision of cell phones for NRI assaulted women,advertising in
    newspaper about NGO to report to. Central treasury is empty. Poverty ridden
    homeless children are suffering mercilessly. Many poor women are dying for
    hunger. NRI became important for these NGOs than those children. I believe,
    most of these organisations are just waiting to get calls by NRI wife. The
    day call is received by NGOs, work on it, as there is big booty. Americans
    recognize the tantrums of Indian politicians indirectly.
    http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?
    article_id=768649893bc5975ce97b6bff5354c210

    Supreme court is hand folded due to fear of ant population of Women
    NGOs dharna for any action being taken–
    http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/22/stories/2005072202631500.htm . India
    is whining; there is completely dirt inside the parliament. Who will
    clean this?

    So who is benefitting out of this whole process. NO ONE, BUT COUNTRY
    DEVASTATES.
    Disclaimer: These are my perceptions only. Nothing to do with
    other’s or an attempt to..

  6. Domestic violence Against Husbands on increase in the city , Bangalore.

    Thousands of techie’s sorry tale of being beaten up by his wife made us think behond resonable that women are misusing laws (a little too flabbergasting considering the fact that the `victim’ just needed to take a peek into the history and draw inspiration to bash up his wife in retaliation!), digest this: on an average, more than 170 married men are lost their life each month in Bangalore district due to their abusive wives.

    Husband Killers are moving freely in our Society , who knows you will not be the Next?
    More at : http://indiatalking.com/blog/swarup/4576/

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