Yesterday one of friend forwarded me a message stating that wear a black on next i.e. today in protest of Gang rape which happened in Delhi recently. Also I saw many
people turning their profile/display picture into this black dot on white background.
After looking throughout these sentiments in form of Facebook and what’s app, I feel this was the simplest form of protest. Since many of, so called proud citizen of India didn’t had time and where more concerned about their routine or perhaps they can’t do anything else they use this method to post a picture with black dot in solidarity towards victim and hate against those who did heinous crime. I always wonder how much change such things would bring except self-satisfaction that I did something towards a cause which is burning out.
I am not criticizing the thing, I favour, atleast something is better than nothing, but at same if we really want change then such “self-convenient” simple methods won’t matter other than our self. When stats says that every half hour a girl is raped, today when people changed their profile picture, some who went out discussing things for Dabhang 2 someone somewhere would be molested, teased, harassed or even raped. Even in our day to day life we see how some people in working place do such nuisance with our female colleagues, what we do at that time? Tie a black band and roam in protest or we come forward to ask the person why he did so? Moving around in public transport we find things which are obscene but we only don’t react because concerned girl is not in your relation. Are we waiting for right time to act? I feel rather than wearing blue, black or any color or choosing any simple form of protest, if we show some courage to stop, a wrong happening in front of our eyes its more than enough. Newspaper says when girl and guy where thrown out of the bus they were nude, and girl was bleeding, as many 50 people were watching the plight of this 2 citizens and strange, not a single men, women standing or peeping out of sedans took a step to cover the already destroyed modesty of women and her friend. Only when police came they took table cover from nearby hotel to cover them and took them to hospital. These 50 people who guarded the couple represent many of us. Infact might be out of those 50 few would be one who posted such picture or would have joined Jantar Mantar or India gate, or Gate way for change in nation. I am thinking with such cowards how we can bring change?
Stop showing how much you love this nation and hate such crimes on Facebook and whats app in your free time. Rather than act, because if not today, we wont get tomorrow.
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