Scarlett – Perhaps, this word would have got printed more or sounded more in the recent past in the media. She had been murdered after being raped. Worse is, she is a minor. It happened in Incredible India where we proudly claim, “Athiti Devo Bhava…”
This particular episode has taken multiple turns and everyday a new story is unleashed. Needless to mention, this episode has been providing more masala than a Bollywood movie or a Ekta Kapoor’s soaps.
However, this episode can be viewed in 3 different angles.
The eroding ethos among the Indian public
Parenting has no meaning nowadays- Indian Police can twist the story in whatever manner they would like it to
The third point is the most dangerous one. Police are supposed to be protectors of public and still some portion of the public believe in Police. It is a different matter that police have lost their respect which they used to command three decades back. Even our Indian Cinema projects police as comedy stuff. If the hero happened to be a police, then the constables would be comedians. What an irony?
Surprisingly, none seems to be bothered about this. What is the Home ministry doing? What is the ethical and moral strength of our police? At times, one is driven to think that it is always better not to believe in Police. Why their respect levels are stooped so low? How will they regain this? I do not have an answer for this. It is good if some one of you has.
In this particular case, police had been changing stands from one to another day after day. It was the victim’s mother who was hell bent on raking up the issue and finding out the truth. Had it happened to an Indian girl (from slums), whether the media would have given this much of importance to this? Whether these turns, whatever happened in this episode, would have happened?
I agree that being a visitor to our country, we should hold the responsibility and we should see that justice is met. However, the real fact behind all this is, unless you are a mighty one, getting justice or even finding the truth pertaining to you is impossible in India. Have we gone so low?
I am not here to sling mud on the life styles of Fiona or Scarlett. Their life styles are still not accepted in Indian society (of course, hypocritical) but they displayed it unabashedly in public and they met with the consequences. I will not even advice on the parenting part as this has no meaning in today’s world.
Hardly the parents and kids meet each other let alone sharing their views. Kids are exposed to fantasy worlds through the cable channels where they depict what is not happening around our society but kids keep growing believing such things do happen and they are common. Slowly, the base-line of ethics has faded and a new line is laid.
Same is the case with raping. One can have intercourse with a girl for years and if one fine morning, she felt she had been raped, you are labeled as rapist. The way in which the modern girls dress today literally creates a turbulent spin in my stomach. Thank God! I have only a son and no daughters.
Cinema is the one to be blamed next. It depicts that the girl fall in love on 8th reel with the very same eve-teaser who teased her in the 3rd reel. What does this imply? Does one have to be an eve-teaser to win a girl’s heart? What sort of love is this? Is eve-teasing normal? Acceptable? All of us fail to understand but yes this happens. Similarly, the girl has to marry the very monster who had raped her 2 reels back. What sort of justice is this? Can this lady live a normal life with that rapist? Whenever she sees him, will he not look like a rapist and how can she see him as her husband. All this happens in our movies and we justify it.
This means we accept all this but feel shy to say so in public. Ours is a hypocritical society and all of us are hypocrites. If we justify that a girl wearing bikini or having drug has to face this, then how will we justify numerous innocent girls being raped in India. Worse is, yesterday, a guy has molested a 50 year old lady. What a pervert he would have been?
Scarlett issue has opened a can of worms but many such can were opened in the past but we never seems to learn from it. We divide our society by gender in buses, in queues, in schools, everywhere and create an imaginary attraction towards each other. Added to the woes are the hypocritical standards we apply to us. All this leads to perversion.
Imagine I have a coin in my palm and close my fist. Now I ask you to guess what is inside? You guess starts from diamond ring to what not and it creates a curiosity. When I open and show the coin, the interest is lost. Same is happening with girls in India. Let us correct this.
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