I am writing this blog after having read the horrible news of the para-medical student gang-raped in a moving bus. I have lived my entire formative years in Delhi and this has not come as a shock to me. This is not the first time such an incident has happened and unless some serious actions are taken, this would not be the last. Delhi was never the safest place for women and unless changes are made it never will be.
We have had our fare share of scandals ranging from the gruesome to the comic. We had the tandoor case, Jessica case and the list goes on and on and on.....This is the power capital of India. This is where all the politicians come meet at the parliament to debate on what bills should be passed(should be read as wasting time and money). Since we have so many politicians in Delhi is that why there is such a high crime rate? To a degree yes. To explain this I will use a famous dialogue from the movie No One Killed Jessica. "In Delhi, everybody is somebody and no body is nobody". That statement is self explanatory. This is why so many high profile cases of injustice have gone unpunished.
Why exactly then do we hear the phrase "Dilwalon ki Dili"? One reason might be that Delhi earned this name simply because it rhymes well and logically it really has no meaning. Another might be because Delhi is the oldest city in India which has seen several dynasties right from the Kurukshetra to Mughals to the East India Company and the present seat of government. Delhi and its citizens have embraced or accepted all of them, the culture and people. You just need to have a look of the current demography of it current citizens. Thanks to it being the capital of the nation, there is not a single state that is not represented in Delhi.
We need better rules in place that give better protection to the women our society. I will vote for capital punishment for any person who gets incriminated for committing crimes towards women and children. We also need to look at religion as in India our morality is defined by the religion and community you belong to. Honor killing, gang-raping women in front of the entire village are stories several times. Is this what we want to teach our children? We live in cynical times where the wealth and power can help you get away with murder. I hope our generation is able to change things and stop looking at women as objects and as human beings and pass on the same message to the coming generation.
We have had our fare share of scandals ranging from the gruesome to the comic. We had the tandoor case, Jessica case and the list goes on and on and on.....This is the power capital of India. This is where all the politicians come meet at the parliament to debate on what bills should be passed(should be read as wasting time and money). Since we have so many politicians in Delhi is that why there is such a high crime rate? To a degree yes. To explain this I will use a famous dialogue from the movie No One Killed Jessica. "In Delhi, everybody is somebody and no body is nobody". That statement is self explanatory. This is why so many high profile cases of injustice have gone unpunished.
Why exactly then do we hear the phrase "Dilwalon ki Dili"? One reason might be that Delhi earned this name simply because it rhymes well and logically it really has no meaning. Another might be because Delhi is the oldest city in India which has seen several dynasties right from the Kurukshetra to Mughals to the East India Company and the present seat of government. Delhi and its citizens have embraced or accepted all of them, the culture and people. You just need to have a look of the current demography of it current citizens. Thanks to it being the capital of the nation, there is not a single state that is not represented in Delhi.
We need better rules in place that give better protection to the women our society. I will vote for capital punishment for any person who gets incriminated for committing crimes towards women and children. We also need to look at religion as in India our morality is defined by the religion and community you belong to. Honor killing, gang-raping women in front of the entire village are stories several times. Is this what we want to teach our children? We live in cynical times where the wealth and power can help you get away with murder. I hope our generation is able to change things and stop looking at women as objects and as human beings and pass on the same message to the coming generation.
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