The Reason

In lieu of the recent events that transpired in Delhi where a girl, only in her school, was found dead, murdered or otherwise, on her way back from a school outing, has brought to light the need for an understanding of what the young ones today are looking for. There is speculation that there was a lewd MMS that was made of her and the trend of these MMS clips being uploaded is shocking. There is the matter of choice but at that age is choice merely a word that the dictionary professes exists. Is there then a black and white or is there a murky Grey that covers all that occurs with the young and the restless today.

It is the age of exploration, and anyone who tries to convince them otherwise, is what literature terms a quixotic tilt at the windmills. Truth be told, I have to date, not really sympathized with the metaphor I used for the turmoil that every individual undergoes in their late teens, but it is a gargantuan waste of time for any individual to counsel a child at that stage of their lives about companionship, sex, right and wrong! However, can we influence the choices that they make? Can society play it’s part in ensuring such incidents do not reoccur? My take. Yes! Though whether it will occur is as one turbaned individual who professes his love for cricket as Brad did for Jen a second before Jolie called on the secret BradJolie phone would say, umm … Sorry Sidhuisms were never my forte! It would be fair to say that in the year 3020, if earth still exists, and if Humans have not become extinct due to the lack of oxygen, or the ozone or commodes that can wash themselves clean, India would still be governed by a aged set of ethics that are as two faced as Two Face himself. Batman unfortunately is a comic book character and though I have at times looked upon him as a career option, there are specific economical requirements that I do not fulfill for the application.

As a society, India thinks that people under the age of 20 are not going to explore possibilities of companionship. Whether this is India’s version of, literally put, the Bulls Fecal matter, or whether it has forgotten how to metamorphose with the sands of time, is something yet to be studied and acknowledged. Along with a catastrophic lack of education there is, for the woman in India, a surprising lack of freedom. This in a country where the ‘Devi’ is worshipped and the woman is looked upon as a symbol of power and love all rolled into one. The lack of freedom coupled with a patriarchal society that scrutinizes every move of the virgin woman, rapping her on her fingers when she makes a move outside of the box now drawn for them and admonishing their needs into a locker we now call ‘Feminism’. Freedom is a point of view, something that emerges as the second’s hand moves slowly from the 10^th to the 11^th second. And when freedom strikes, the uninformed, suppressed woman of today takes a dive into the acid pool of either erroneous companionship or fallacious carnal fulfillment. If the Indian woman is capable of coming to terms with her disappointments, the situation would have been under control. But alas! Society re-intervenes, making certain she is neither at rest nor is given the respect that is due to her kind! This, of course, by a society that hides from their children and watches debasing clips through the revolution that is internet or switches on to their local channels to watch voluptuous incarnations of their sullied minds. What does that uninformed, suppressed woman do then? She finds refuge in the unwashed tracks of the Indian Railway System or finds a way of earning a life with her final benefactor, the non-existent lord of the nether worlds!

Who do we blame then? The non-existent lord of the nether worlds? The Society that has a chameleon fabric? Rather than pass the baton, look in the mirror! That’s the reason for it all. Now go and find abode in the non-existent lord of the Nether worlds!