Crime Against Women In The Name Of Crime Prevention! Why?
Like many other
things in India, started with some reasons and the reasons were lost. When the
average life expectancy of Indians was only about 30 at the time of
Independence, it was not right, but OKAY to have marriages early in life. It
somehow seems fitting! But life has changed so much in the last sixty odd
years. India has grown in healthcare and we have an average life expectancy that
has more than doubled. With the third largest population housing in the state
of Bihar, with about 60 per cent of the people in their tweens, it is still
shocking to hear that Child marriages are rocking with high favourability in
Bihar. This only reflects one fundamental thing and that is: Illiteracy!
Numbers Matter Indeed!
One might state
facts like about 63% of Biharis are literate. Literacy in India is
dimensionally different. It is not just about enrolling in a school. Literacy
is to develop someone’s brain. But the Indian education system is so corrupt by
the politicians that there are shameful reports of making the exams easier and
foolish to get higher literacy rates. In reality, it is all a game!
With the
literacy rate exceeding the population percentage that is in their tweens, it
is evident that education has not done any justice in the state at all! Almost
all those people below 25 (58% of the population) would have been to school.
What has the school taught them? Even if the women are forced to enter into
marriage, what has the education done to the men? Don’t they know the basic law
that Child Marriages are offences in the country? What is the state government
doing except for creating political havocs?
If the entire
populous is brought in under proper education that makes them free thinkers,
increase their capacity to think and act according to what they had learnt from
the books, then all social evils should come down. In fact, this is not just
the problem with Bihar. This is the problem with all the states in India.
In fact,
statistics and numbers are the only things that any government is worried about
because only those things can have an effect on their elections and bring them
back to power and hence start over the process of looting public money. With
such a literacy rating what has been achieved? Neither the poverty has come
down nor has the ambience improved in any way. It is shameful but it is the
truth about our nation!
Lack of Self-Motivation
With the
Rao-Manmohan singh’s model of economy that we are following, the one that is
devoid of the License Raj, our economy is open and vulnerable. This is what the
people think and this is also the line that the governments use for their
propaganda. But the truth is that, with the economy being more open, with the
economy being more capitalistic, there is also the chance to fight and do
business, make loads of money. With the open economy, the chances for making
money and being able to afford quality life has become more. But people of
Bihar and many other parts of the country are content with a simple, regular,
animalistic life of Being born, eat, sleep, shit, marry, reproduce and die!
From where will that self-motivation come? That can only arise if there is
proper exposure to actual education to people. Men must be educated. There is a
saying in Thamizh that says that there is no cure for theft except when the
thief himself quits thieving! So, it is the men who are blamed for all the
crimes against women. So the male force has to be properly educated. Their
mothers should teach them what women are. They must, at home, teach their
children to respect all women and not just the mother and the grandmother!
There is no better place to learn than at home isn’t it?
Poverty Is The Cause – What Are The Explanations To
Make This Crime Legal?
There is a girl
in the house. There are many men who are dangerous to her on the streets. They do
not have any money to run the family. But they do have money to get drunk and
find a young girl to rape and sexually assault. The parents fear that something
of that kind might happen to their girl under their watch. In one way it is the
transfer of responsibilities and they want to do it sooner, for it would be
better. Another point of view from the parents’ shoes is that people do not
mess with married women. There is yet another condition. When they plan to give
their young women in marriage, if there is an elder boy in the family, he also
gets married because the poor families have to get dowry to give dowry for
their girl to be accepted elsewhere. Thus this is not just a simple problem,
but a structural problem itself.
What To Do?
Well, simply, we
must try to educate the people. We must teach people to be obsessed with higher
life goals rather than just a simple life. Competition is the key to
development in this capitalistic (so called mixed) economy. There are many
Biharis who work everywhere around the country and that only proves that they
are not people who are lazy. They just need the right direction. If the minds
are occupied with desire to achieve more and want more (which can only be put
into their systems by proper education and exposure to the outside world) in
life than just silly things, if the minds want social status, better living
conditions and the desire to explore, meet new people and learn more things,
then all these unwanted problems can be settled. Let us PROPERLY EDUCATE THE
KIDS AND NOT JUST GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO SCHOOL AND MAKE SYLLABUS
EASY TO PASS THE EXAMS! LET US TEACH THEM SOMETHING OUT OF THE CIRCLE. THIS IS
A MAJOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE THAT CANNOT BE BROUGHT OVERNIGHT!
Thanks for the indiblogger Ring the bell to have motivated me to write this!
JAI HIND!
