sA survey of Thomson Reuters Foundation has up-surged an extremely puzzling and anxious matter once again. The survey declares India to be the most dangerous and unsafe country for Women in the world. Even the dreadful countries like Syria and Afghanistan find a better place in comparison to India. Pakistan ranks sixth in the list and America being at tenth. The survey involved around 500 experts working for women rights. They were directed to rank the top 10 worst countries in a total of 193 nations.
People may definitely opine differently on the survey, but, amidst a series of episodes of deadly incidents happening one after the other, the report seems no where wrong, despite it being not that easy and feasible for the politicians, law makers and the patriarchal society!
After “Nirbhaya”, the entire nation was distressed and to some extent government were serious. It seemed as situations may become better. The law marked some changes and a 100 crore Nirbhaya fund, which has now increased to 300 crore, was raised in the Union Budget. A hundreds of promises were made ensuring the safety, that remained successful to what extent is very clear through the facts and figures. 2015 marked an year of 34000 and more rape cases that rose to 34600 in 2016 and even more in 2017.
Moreover, these are the cases that have been registered; where a huge number of victim families remain silent as are not courageous enough to come forward. So, in this situation the real plight is even more serious. As soon as the report was released on the one hand, the nation was jolted with another gruesome case where a minor (7 yr old girl) has been raped in Mandsaur, MP on the other. The innocent girl is in critical condition and the accused in custody. But, the accused were arrested in the Nirbhaya case also. In spite of the fact, the heinous criminals are surviving and proliferating and the politicians merely playing a “blame game” politics.
We wrote on Nirbhaya, we wrote on Gudiya, we even penned down the injustice to “Asifa”, and now the atrocities to another innocent child has compelled us to pick our pens again. Under such deterrent situations, can we address the report to be wrong? Perhaps, no. The report has, probably, provided the politicians, our leaders and the society with a chance to retrospect that a country like India where a tiny innocent 7 yr old child to an elderly women of 70 yrs are molested beyond the extents, does it holds an ethical right to be a world leader?
