Weekly photo challenge: Resolved
Braving one of the coldest winters of Delhi in recent memory, two protestors are on a hunger strike for more than 10 days now, under the open sky at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Their condition is deteriorating rapidly. They have resolved to secure speedy justice for the 23-year-old girl who was brutally raped and eventually murdered by six men in a moving bus on December 16, 2012.
The Indian justice system appears to be slow and inefficient.
Sir it is sad to say. But our judicial system is deadly slow and inefficient. With thousands of vaccancies in the judicial services, millions of pending cases in courts, people’s inability to understand the contours of basic human rights, general apathy towards women, corruption,… god knows what we are creating in the name of development, in the name of our great civilisation, in the land of Gandhi and Buddha.
राजीव जी लोगों की नजरों तक ऐसे सच को पहुँचाने का आपका या प्रयास सराहनीय है …
मगर सवाल तो यह है कि आखिर इस सोते हुए सिस्टम को जगाया कैसे जाये …. यह बहुत बड़ी चुनौती है …. आजकल तो सरकारी अमला किसी अच्छे कारण के लिए की गयी भूख हड़ताल का भी संज्ञान नहीं लेता … या तो आप मर जाइये या फिर अपने आप ही विरोध करना बंद कर दीजिये। दोनों ही सूरतों में नतीजा सिफ़र का सिफ़र ….
लेकिन मेरा ऐसा मानना है की ऐसे समर्पित व्यक्तियों को विरोध का यह जानलेवा तरीका अपनाने के बजाय इस सिस्टम में घुस कर इसे सुधारने का प्रयास करना चाहिए। मगर मुश्किल तो यह है कि जब सिस्टम को बदलने का अवसर हमारे हाथ में आता है तो हम या तो डर जाते हैं या बहक जाते हैं और इसका फायदा उठा कर हमें पीढ़ी दर पीढ़ी कुचले जाने की साजिश जारी रहती है। हम बस गाहे-बगाहे थोड़ा चीख चिल्लाकर अपनी भड़ास निकल कर फिर उनके क़दमों तले दबे रह जाते हैं। .
Ma’m, thanks.
Seems you have suggested a way. But when the battle is for correcting a civilisational wrong, a few sacrifices are perhaps necessary.
I salute these men who have dared to take the risk. Perhaps you would agree that the objectification of women is the result of a faulty civilisational process which we often celebrate as ‘the great Indian culture’. I despise it.
No country can be great where all are not treated as equal.
That women has been treated as an object in India is a historical fact. From the mythological stories of Mahabharata and Ramayana, to the great ‘harems’ of mighty kings of past to the present rapes and all, all of it certifies the failure of our collective conscience.
You are perhaps right. That one should get into the system to clease it of all its sins. But you may agree to one thing more.
Pains suffered by a few set an example for others to follow. We have the examples of Gandhi and Buddha at our disposal.
Having said that, I still believe there are some other ways as well to arouse the present system. let us start doing something at a small level. It will be a long process but it will definitely yield result. I will tell you about it soon in detail.
regards
(sorry I replied in English. If you want then I will translate my reply into hindi.