The Name of the New Delhi Rape Victim is Eve!

 Though I am not religious, the accepted first woman of this majority population of world is Eve. If one believes that the unknown Indian Girl raped and dumped out from the moving bus with her intestines allegedly pulled out with a iron bar (Source: Wikipeadia, in the absence of other authentic source), the victim is indeed connected to her Mom by way of umbilical cord and if a person traces the continuity of the umbilical cord, the 16^th December, 2012 victim is also connected to the first woman of this Planet, the Eve. Hence by all means she can also be called as a Fragment of Eve. Hence I call her Eve.

Also for the very first time the Indian megalomania Media have followed the basic Journalistic ethics of not revealing the name and the picture of the victim of a rape incident. It is unfortunate that this basic norm is not known to the megalomania media who advocate “celebrating” the name of the Victim. May be, now she is no more and hence the norm of not divulging the name ceases and hence the Government may name the victim or may not. But is that the issue of contemplation?

In this country, in rural pockets, bonded labours, migrant labours and a large section of marginalised women are subjected to brutality of sexual abuse which is one of the forms of abuses to them. When the same is happening in New Delhi, the issue now carries its core message. It is apparent that Women in general are not safe whether it is rural or urban or semi urban.

Where does this start from?

In this case, the bus is owned by a Private School, which plies bus for school children’s commutation. The driver of the bus one among the accused has been serving a school as a bus driver! How come his other side remain undetected? One may ask, is that the job of the School Owner. Yes! It is the job of the School owner who runs the school for his private benefit with only a minimal social benefit. Would he permit such persons to serve his house as his personal driver for his wife or son? Each day those innocent school kids have literally escaped this onslaught and “Eve”; you have taken it on you. RIP.

The friend of Eve, has made a statement that he went unconscious and knew about the whole gamut of incident only after he read the statement of Eve. Typical of Adam!

The Young Girls of Delhi, according to Rasheeda Bagha quoted from an article in Business Line ‎"Indian women are tired of being lectured on how to dress, speak and behave. All these years the onus has been on them to remain safe. If they were molested or sexually assaulted they were to blame. A clear message that came out from young girls holding placards which said:”'You have the evil eye and I should stay covered?”. Perhaps this is the turning point in Indian Social Behaviour where very clearly the girls, women have sent a strong message (of course in an Urban Context) that they no longer subscribe to the fake protection of men, the prime perpetrators. But the million dollar question is that how far our Legal and law enforcing institutions are accommodative to this vital question:

1.      The existing institutions where females are employed say for example Defence, Police Service and even other fields where by Constitution they are levelled at par with male, the situation of their status and recognition is grim.

2.      The number of women officers who feel insecure in service whether coveted or non gazetted are growing more, merely because of their very identity, admits a survey conducted by bonafide organisation.

Thus when females are not in a position to levitate themselves where they are constitutionally empowered , what about a moving bus with tinted glass controlled by few vandals or the rural , subaltern space where the “Body of the Woman” is commoditized completely.

            What is the sad irony is that these girls holding placards shouting for liberation might fail the test for contending such emancipation in true sense – for example:

a.       How many of the Girls are not conditioned that her body is never hers but for the pleasure and procreation of another male? Is that not the bounded duty of every parents and if any eve violate she will be honour killed! The post modern revival of Sati, killing the girl along with the lost honour!

b.      How many of our girls mentally don’t have the feeling that they are groomed for becoming someone’s wife and forbear children, lest her purpose of creation gets defeated?

c.       How many women here, there and everywhere are able to lead a life of her choice or at least given some exposure?

d.      If this is in urban context, how many rural Indian women Pradhans/Panchayat presidents – officially elected by the Village people as their representative are given a minimum dignity by their husbands? ( I know the reality as a researcher in many of the Northern States)

(if anyone who reads these above positions and discuss among your friends, there lies the success of this blog)

The corporate media that fuel the enraged mass movements are also inserting advertisements of beauty products and cosmetics. Here they conveniently mislead the world on “Freedom of Choice” and the recent media advertisement, later bungled up for criticism on “tighty whity vagina is the height of such corporate arrogance. It is these merchants of opportunities, merchants of commodifying women as a symbol of sex speak of women liberation. For them TRP rating matters and the dose of visual opium matters for filling their coffers. (http://www.firstpost.com/living/tightey-whitey-vaginas-the-boys-are-depending-on-us-413651.html). We are living in a civilized society and there are people who advocate “ It is choice that matters – Freedom of Choice” – yes I agree ! to what extent and at what cost with what objective? Can we fall prey to these corporate honey traps, that has been all along been selling womanhood as a profitable commodity? Wake up Girls wake up. Revolutions not mean boosting the sales of candles. It is beyond that. Let us redefine definitions. Prepare for a mental revolution.

The rogues who stand accused of this heinous act of violence are also our products – Yes We the State, we the Civil Society, we the corporate, we the spineless intelligentsia, we the people who cannot educate them, who cannot give them a equitable education are abettors to this crime!

Sorry Eve! We know you will never pardon us...yes shamelessly we plead your apology. We will again come up with another apology shamelessly after another incident and promote candle sales!

Not at all a Happy New year!