‘Rapes’ — Crime that questions Indian
By: Ankur Mani Tripathi
Tags: Gender Equality, Rape In India, Sexual Harassment, Rapist, Crime Agai

Rape remains an act forgotten with silence (Source — Serendipity And Orenda )

India…A place with different, enthusiastic, and colorful cultures, language, diversity, and people. Different types of diverse people who live in one big country. The population is about 120 crore, which is greater than about 193 countries that officially exist globally. So with this immense diversity, India’s crime is reflected with great statistics and evolves itself with time and places. Among so many crimes, one crime is trending, which is ‘rape’. A Scandalous act that always shakes humankind from inside. Day by day, such crime cases are increasing, but a country is an epicenter for this heinous crime. Many questions are supposed to ask from an Indian to know their thinking about this act, and i am here ‘an Indian’ to answer some questions asked by the world. So let’s start,

Does rape concern people of India, are they worried?

The answer is Yes. People are concerned about their daughters, sisters, Niece, Mother, Grand Mother, Girl Friend, and any other girl we care about.

If women or girls in our family are asked to live alone in a city, it becomes a great concern or headache for her family and girl. They both have their mutual problems. In the family, the mother is tensed if her daughter, sister, or niece is not at her room after 10 pm, and if she didn’t pick the phone, a scary thought of misshapen might haunt them.

Is imposing restriction to girls may help ?

Absolutely No. But ha many people may think so. India is a big country, and there are mainly two groups of people in India, One who thinks giving Liberty to girls cause rape and another don’t think so. But the people with Liberty giving problem are overblown with there men’s ego or can say selfdom. But I think these people should understand ‘Mari Ladkiya, ladko se kam hai ke’ Translation — Girls are not lesser than boys.

Does really Indian culture, religious belief and diversity are responsible for rapes in the country ?

No. Clearly No. India is a multi-religious country. Mainly six religions — Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhism, and Jain. Among these six religions, two have nonviolence as their basic philosophy, and others also abide it religiously. Hindu believe ‘Ahimsa Parmo Dharma’ (Translation — Non violence is the highest moral virtue) from mahabharat, One of the well known saying of Prophet — ‘la daharar wa la dahirar’ means “Not to harm and not to be harmed” and Sikhs gurus always fought against violence. So there is no question arise that culture, religion, and diversity promote rapes in India.

Does Poverty makes people to commit crimes like Rape ?

No. This is absolutely right that poverty, unemployment and poor education can attract people into unlawful activities. But for Indians, there religious and cultural belief is very rigid and womens are ‘adi-shakti’, Goddess of power, to whom people used to worship. Even with rich countries like USA report 98,213 rapes in year 2019 and whereas in India only 32033 in 2019 as per National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB). Where population compared to India is just 25% . Even if we take many unreported cases in India. Though it can’t be justified that poverty is causing rapes in the country.

So why so much rapes in the country ?

To understand this, we have to see our history. In the Early Rig Veda period(1500–1000 B.C.E), back in time, there was no caste system, no religious barrier, no gender bias, and no social inequality. The women used to work in the paddy field, folding their long Saari (Indian Ethnic wear) to work comfortably. Wearing a blouse was not a trend in Indian culture in those days. Even epic written in those days like Ramayan and Mahabharat highlighted the importance of respecting women. But with time and foreign invasion, the dominance of exotic thought increases over society. The politics divided people based on their caste, gender, creed, and social status. And evil hatched from its cell. The foreign invasion brought different cultures and influential notions with them, which affected people in the country. The people we see in the country are following those old notions and even improved them with time.

Mahishasura Mardini (Photo by Vishal Rohatgi on Unsplash)

So what is the solution?

The primary solution resides within people themselves. They have to get rid of that notion and belief which they are following for so long. They have to give women their rightful place in society and their own personal family. They have to believe that women or girls are not lesser than them, should respect women independence of thought and identity and give some time to self introversion and ask themselves that ‘Are they slaves of thought forced on them by decades of colonization and the evolution of thought by ancestors?’ and have to understand that this is not there real culture which they are following for so long.

And First, they should get rid of their slavery and train children to get rid of it. They have to monitor children about their thought process to save them from this gender-based poison.

With all this, the government is also a key member to control such heinous crime, the law creates a barrier to crimes, but the government has to regulate these laws. Police officers themselves do not report many cases. The conviction rate is very low in India. So, the government needs to take proper steps for this.

Absolutely, ‘Mahishasura’ (evil) will always be there in society. We have to believe that there will be a ‘Durga’ (goddess) who will always end the devil and bring peace and harmony.