The mind-numbing story of the brutal rape and murder of a young doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata has left us all aghast! Colloquially being called Nirbhaya 2.0, people, especially women, hitting the streets at midnight under ‘Reclaim the Night’, is all but a sombre reminder of history repeating itself.
‘Boys will be boys. They make mistakes’. What does this statement convey? That nobody should be held accountable for their sudden fetishes or perversions towards women? Come on, display some of that social consciousness that is bandied about so much in official and international speeches about how Indian women are revered as goddesses.
DR. ELSA LYCIAS JOEL In our society, I hear a hypocritical outcry of deteriorating traditional values when a woman walks out of her marriage. But no one raises voice or…