Once upon a time people never wanted a girl baby because it would be hard for their parents to find a partner and get them married. But today people are scared to have a girl baby not for the financial reasons, it is hard even to protect a 6 months old baby from being sexually harassed. I feel so shameful and painful in writing this post. Ours is a country where we celebrated women. We have given equal importance to women as goddess, queens and lot more. There are evidences in history that tells us that once women were ruling powerful dynasties equal to men. There were great poets like Avaiyar, who was respected by the most powerful rulers. But today they are not even considered to be a human being. They are treated as sexual toys. It is quite heartbreaking to hear that a six months old baby in Warangal was sexually abused and confronted to death. It is reported that the accused was alcoholic when this had happened. The parents of that little baby are from a very poor background that they find very difficult even to have a proper meal a day. Do you think that the baby who doesn’t even know what world is would be given justice or would their parents would. This issue would be a headlines not more than a week. Again people forget and start running for their lives. Is that only enough if we share in our WhatsApp status or groups. It is time to think and contribute at least something to the welfare of women. I don’t tell you to praise women but at least not hurt them. Let us start respecting each and every women we see, let it be our mother, sister, neighbour or even a stranger.
Instead of asking or protesting for the change, let us be the change. Let us start this from within.
varsha 