Rapes in the rise: How are the ‘good people’ to be blamed?
Just as the whole country is reeling under the shocking number of rapes that are being reported ever so frequently, a strange case of rape is reported from Pathan, Gujarat. A 22-year-old man has raped his own mother. Just as the cabinet approved the ordinance recommending death sentence to rapists of children below 12 years of age, a gory incident such as this one has occurred. There have been many horrible instances of a father has raping his own daughters. But this case of a boy raping his own mother is a rarest of rare case. The entire society has to hang its head in shame over this. Why did something like this happen? How did we as a society become responsible for this?
What enabled the young man to grow such a perversion? Can the government ever help curb such evils by commuting death or life sentence to the guilty?
Though each rape is horrible, the first mistake we make is that of putting all rape cases on the same scale. There is a difference between a debauchee raping a child, and the Kathua case where a 7-year-old girl was drugged, raped and killed. Kathua is not just about being a perverted act, it also has dirty politics involved in it. The girl became a victim because she belonged to a particular community. Hence, another particular community showed solidarity with the culprits.
We cannot place Kathua and Khairlanji rapes alongside other rapes and address all of them in a monolithic manner. Here, the motives are clear. They know the ways to fix this too. The culprits are not just looking for ways to satiate their sexual needs.
Today, a lot of sexual assaults on children are happening at home. The society has probably created a more than conducive atmosphere for such crimes to thrive. It is not too tough to analyse the reason behind the Gujarat rape. The boy was addicted to porn videos. He had spoken to his mother about his inclination of wanting to experiment with sex. She was well aware of his sexual drive being active. If the parents had paid closer attention, they could see their son going astray with this addiction to sex. They could have, probably, taken him for medical and psychological treatment. But they were not willing to comprehend with the factor that their son was disturbed. Hence, the whole thing ended in a tragedy.
Many years ago, if a paper published a vulgar picture, people hesitated to take the copy home. There were magazines that were dedicated to porn and they would never be sold in open. ‘Cabaret’ dancers as they were called, were exclusive dancers who wore skimpy clothes and pranced in a film irrespective of the script demanding it or not. They would appear in one small song, and disappear soon after. They wouldn’t be seen again in the film at all.
But they gradually disappeared. Leading ladies and even children began to wear clothes that were skimpier than that of the cabaret dancers. Leading ladies merged with cabaret dancers and would wear even more skimpy clothes. Today children form the major chunk of television viewers including women, children and all aged male and female members; and mind you, that television does not have the slightest of responsibility to change this situation. The leading dailies splash vulgar pictures on the very first page itself with no sense of what it would do to young minds. Internet takes people close to disaster very fast. People would read magazines with sexual content on the sly and hidden from the other members. Porn is watched irrespective of age now by both parents and children, on their own mobiles.
Internet is even more dangerous. Porn is freely and economically available now. If a young boy who has to decide on right and wrong thing, commits a crime owning to free porn, who should we complain to? Internet
When parents are busy with other joys of the internet, children watch the wrong stuff and turn into a menace for themselves and the parents too. Parents pay attention to this ugly habit by children only when they try to exhibit it openly.
Some time ago, the government had decided to clamp down on vulgar websites. Many people raised an objection to this. They said this interfered with the ‘freedom of expression’ and they continue with their works. An awareness has to be created opposing porn videos. It is right that the government should focus on bigger issues at hand. To close down these porn websites is the need of the hour for the sake of our children, grandchildren . Children should not be given mobile or any kids of luxury till they are old enough to handle it responsibly. Instead of suffering after losing him, parents should pay attention to their son’s whereabouts everyday.
Children from poor background and into begging or the ones that live in slum areas, should be guarded. Parents have to spend time with their children and shape their personality by way of sharing and caring. Only then, the rapes can be brought under the control of the government. The government needs to reprimand earlier, now I think they have made peace. Parents have to work with children to showcase the richness of this diversity. Only then, we can claim the nation has progressed.
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Trouble ‘Miyas’ everywhere only then they will leave Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma
Says “Himanta Biswa Sarma, BJP are openly against them, we are saying it openly
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that four to five lakh “Miya voters” would be removed from the electoral rolls in the state once the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists is carried out. He also made a series of controversial remarks openly targeting the Miya community, a term commonly used in Assam in a derogatory sense to refer to Bengali-speaking Muslims.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an official programme in Digboi in Tinsukia district, Sarma said it was his responsibility to create difficulties for the Miya community and claimed that both he and the BJP were “directly against Miyas”.
“Four to five lakh Miya votes will have to be deleted in Assam when the SIR happens,” Sarma said, adding that such voters “should ideally not be allowed to vote in Assam, but in Bangladesh”. He asserted that the government was ensuring that they would not be able to vote in the state.
The chief minister was responding to questions about notices issued to thousands of Bengali-speaking Muslims during the claims and objections phase of the ongoing Special Revision (SR) of electoral rolls in Assam. While the Election Commission is conducting SIR exercises in 12 states and Union Territories, Assam is currently undergoing an SR, which is usually meant for routine updates.
Calling the current SR “preliminary”, Sarma said that a full-fledged SIR in Assam would lead to large-scale deletion of Miya voters. He said he was unconcerned about criticism from opposition parties over the issue.
“Let the Congress abuse me as much as they want. My job is to make the Miya people suffer,” Sarma said. He claimed that complaints filed against members of the community were done on his instructions and that he had encouraged BJP workers to keep filing complaints.
“I have told people wherever possible they should fill Form 7 so that they have to run around a little and are troubled,” he said, adding that such actions were meant to send a message that “the Assamese people are still living”.
In remarks that drew further outrage, Sarma urged people to trouble members of the Miya community in everyday life, claiming that “only if they face troubles will they leave Assam”. He also accused the media of sympathising with the community and warned journalists against such coverage.
“So you all should also trouble, and you should not do news that sympathise with them. There will be love jihad in your own house.” He said.
The comments triggered reactions from opposition leaders. Raijor Dal president and MLA Akhil Gogoi said the people of Assam had not elected Sarma to keep one community under constant pressure. Congress leader Aman Wadud accused the chief minister of rendering the Constitution meaningless in the state, saying his remarks showed a complete disregard for constitutional values.
According to the draft electoral rolls published on December 27, Assam currently has 2.51 crore voters. Election officials said 4.78 lakh names were marked as deceased, 5.23 lakh as having shifted, and 53,619 duplicate entries were removed during the revision process. Authorities also claimed that verification had been completed for over 61 lakh households.
On January 25, six opposition parties the Congress, Raijor Dal, Assam Jatiya Parishad, CPI, CPI(M) and CPI(M-L) submitted a memorandum to the state’s chief electoral officer. They alleged widespread legal violations, political interference and selective targeting of genuine voters during the SR exercise, describing it as arbitrary, unlawful and unconstitutional.
