The
last few weeks of 2012 have been a nightmare. Almost on a daily basis , we wake
up to sordid news of rape and mindless violence against innocent women and get
too numbed to react. The protests at Delhi and in other parts of the country
have made the government jittery, not knowing what to do next. And as if to
fill up the time in a circus, we have half-brained mentally unstable people
rambling off sentences without understanding the meaning of what they say only
to mumble apologies later when it is too late. The fact that they are part of
the political system and are still so hare-brained and our claim to be a
civilized society make us wonder whether the end of the world is really near.
Today
morning the worst which was being expected has happened. Far away in Singapore,
the hapless victim, Nirbhaya, after fighting a losing battle with grit, finally
decided to take leave of this sordid shameless callous world. The drama to
follow can be written down to the last syllable. Our political class will rave
and rant about changing the system but will actually do nothing, our Prime Minister
(of whose eruditeness I have the greatest respect) will read out a prepared
statement without any display of emotion or elocution, media will try to get
apologies from political leaders without being successful in doing so, etc etc.
And
then there will be a trial and some Human Rights Associations will start
fighting against death penalty. (I do not know where are they now….).
Is
this the system that we want ?
I
was trying to find synonyms of the word Shame in the dictionary. Unfortunately
there cannot be apt words to describe the shame we are passing through.
Let’s
pray for the departed soul and the well-being and justice of thousand such
hapless women who have been victims of rape and harassment due to the
ineffective political and administrative will of the government and its police.
Let’s
pray for a better tomorrow……..
Shame
is too small a word…………
