Change - The need of the hour!!!

Soldiers needed!!!

Not to guard the borders. Not to fight battles. 
But to stand up for women.

If you respect women; you respect your nation.
Courtesy - Gillette

Epics and bed time stories that we had always heard of, while we were kids have all stressed at one common thing - that Women are symbol of motherhood and that they need to be respected and treated well. Moreso we Indians symbolize our women as goddesses. Forward to present India. Everyone would now admit to the fact that India has turned perilous for women. Molestation,  physical abuses and rapes have all become so common that we tend to come across a lot of such news everyday. 

We have long been hearing about law enforcement,  police force modernization for better India but nothing has taken into effect. That there was only one conviction for the 635 cases of rape reported in Delhi last year, according to the Home Ministry shows the clumsy situation that we are in, at present. Things seem to have gone out of control for the government, the roads have become unsafe for women. 

Not long ago, the whole nation felt the need to be united to voice against the brutality of Amanat, one who became a household name even though she was distance apart. At protests, activists seized the moment to highlight the structural ways India's cities are failing women. We all demanded stricter laws and stringent punishment including death sentences and castration for such sexual assaults. But, would this alone be able to deter such crimes? Not really. It is said 'Prevention is better than cure'. Why raise voice only when something goes wrong?

Why not fight against it at the first place to stop it from happening? and more so, what have we done to prevent it? It’s more to do with respecting oneself and others. Having a moral responsibility and standing up against heinous crimes as a unit then and there. More than asking women to carry pepper sprays like against vampires, why not teach and imprint boys to respect women and themselves. Have always been the case thus far, but lets just try to impose the importance of this accountability on boys so that they would themselves make India a better place for women when they grow up.

The header carries a recent Gillette campaign vowing for women. An initiative that could as well make one realize what it means. The same Gillette used to portray women in provocative ways in earlier ads just like any other company's ad does. Having said that, change is good. They have changed the way their campaign goes. Hope it stays the same way. Now its time for us to change. Don't live in the past.

Lets change for a better India. Safer India!!!

- DC

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