Rape freely, but don’t hug!!

Hello everyone. I would love to ask all of you a question: how would you define a democracy? A place or a state where every possible kind of freedom within the appropriate or lawful boundaries is prevalent, right?

Indeed, even if not exactly, the near-perfect or perfect definition for or of a democracy can be found in the following lines:

“Where the mind is without fear/

And the head is held high/

Where knowledge has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls/

Where reason has not lost its way into the dreary sands of the desert/…”

Yes, it is none other than the famous poem by the Bard of India, Rabindranath Tagore.

Although his poem dealt chiefly with the freedom struggle and was for the cause of freedom, the above lines more than just make up one of the most beautiful and poetic definitions of democracy ever defined...

Now, coming back to terra firma, all of you must be wondering why I even mentioned democracy in the first place, right??

Well, don’t hold your breath anymore, for I shall reveal the reason below.

The reason I mentioned democracy below is that we live in such a deplorable country where rapes are allowed to happen without many people batting so much as an eyelid and where the very same unfazed and unbothered people rise up in flames if they see a boy and a girl hugging each other in the subway; they fail to even consider the fact that the boy could be hugging the girl to make her feel safe, a very valid and genuinely much-needed gesture in our country where every second or third girl is raped every minute, I mean, there are so many rapes that take place which we are not even aware of, because of the remoteness of the locations in which they take place!

The boy had been hugging the girl purely and simply to only make her feel safe since most of the people in the metro at that time in the Metro had been males, or let’s just say all of them had been males, and none of them had what you’d call pleasant expressions on their faces. So, in such an environment and given the recent spate of events (especially the Hindu temple in Kathua), it was natural that she should and would feel unsafe, and when her partner realized that, he just put his arm around her to let her know that he was there for her.

Well, that’s exactly when the people in the Metro lost their heads and started beating them, even when the girl was imploring all of them not to do so.

And what’s worse, the two of them were beaten up all the way, till they left the subway station.

I mean, just why would anyone do that??  When it comes to actual dignity, or dignity in the places that matter, such as protecting the dignity of a woman on the street etc. people just look the other way, but hug a girl (even if she’s your biological sister or a cousin) in public, and then thy life is forsaken, for thou will have condemned thyself with thy deeds.

It’s pretty sad and ironic but it’s the truth. Anyway, I wish you all a great day ahead.

Ciao!