Published On: Mon, Jan 14th, 2013
But They Are Just Juveniles… Juvenile Animals! by Rashmi Singh
“MIND OF A MAN is always active and fabricating
something. Even in its hibernation, it creates imaginative
zones, arenas where it ventures whenever it has time or
will to do so” Taming the Restless Mind.
So
many thoughts are invading my mind these days. I have been also blamed
for thinking from a woman’s point of view- fighting only for a woman’s
cause. But I would let all to know, I am not a Feminist. In my fiction,
‘The Fallen Love’, I fought for the protagonist Rohan Dixit. All I want
to say, I can’t tutor my heart. It is my heart which decides, which way I
have to sail- it is my heart which feels the pain and associates itself
with pain of the masses. And these days my mind and heart both have
decided not to be practical.
There are
so many areas to be ventured into, but my poor desolate mind gets
stationed at one point-I am not able to forget the barbarous act of the
Delhi Gang Rape. Though I know this that ‘it’ is not the only heinous
incident happening around us as everyday news of revolting, abhorrent,
unspeakable sexual abuse on small children, especially girls are being
reported. I am then made to think that these children were too small to
wear any provocative dress then why they were brutally assaulted? I am
not able to retrieve my numb senses which are somewhere lost in the mass
pain of all the mothers beating their breasts and lamenting, waiting
for justice which has lost its path in the foggy, gloomy road of
offensive selfishness.
When
justice in the Delhi Gang Rape is moving at snail’s speed even with the
entire country coming forward in unison to protest against the apathy of
administration, Government and people on road, then how can we expect
that a child being murdered and sexually assaulted in a remote corner of
any remote village gets her/his justice? How can we expect the child’s
mother to breathe a single sigh of relief and believe that though her
child, quartered by the fangs of animals hidden in our society, has
meted with fair judgment and the culprit animals have been chained and
lashed publicly! But if a proposal of such kind is made i.e. to publicly
hang the culprits, then the Spokesperson of Human Rights would float on
the scene, saying ‘if they are animals, we can’t become one!’ Okay then
sit back in the comfort zones of your home and watch your children
being snatched by the demons. Don’t kill these inhuman wretches. Fight
for the ‘Human Rights’ of ‘Animals’. Try to make them human and while
trying to do so let the ‘so called civilized jungle of humans’ breed
more such animals to devour the innocents.
By deeds
such culprits are hard core animals but when the time of justice comes,
they are either ‘A Juvenile’ or ‘A Human’ who can’t be punished in full
view of public. In fact they can’t be even given the punishment which
they deserve due to their criminal pervert acts as they are juvenile!
We all
expect a mother to brave the words of her dying daughter. The brave
daughter told her how the juvenile animal had inserted and pushed a rod
into her up till her ribs, yanking it out with her intestines,
lecherously shouting ‘mar saali’! This mother only wants justice, no
money, nothing else! This mother’s mind fails to understand that how can
a person doing such deed be a child?? She asks us all this question and
huddles under old blanket in a cot. But we are humans and we have to
behave like one! And even if animals rape and kill our children, the law
expects us to be patient, calm and behave like humans and lets the
Juveniles behave like animals!
We
all know that law can be changed but only if those in power want to
change…. The discussion is going on… The talks are going on… We are just
silent Spectators, waiting and watching. Watching when breaths of all
the grieving mothers would come to halt….with justice…or with long wait
laced with injustice becoming their graves….
