Women – Human Resources or Just Resources That Humans Use?

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!