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Shivesh Gupta
- A Little Crazy... But All Good People Are!!!
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Dear Damini, I know that this letter will probably never reach you. But still I hope that if you get a chance to read it you will be in a better condition. Outside your room in the hospital, outside the corridors smelling of medicine, outside the operating theatres, the world is crumbling. Thousands of people are protesting, signing petitions, updating Facebook statuses, writing to the PM - all to bring justice to the accused. Some people want them hung. Some want them castrated. Some want them to be handed over to the public. Obviously, none of this will actually happen. I read in an article somewhere that death penalties can only be given to the rarest of rare cases. And it continued to say that unless the victim dies, it cannot be eligible for a rarest of rare case. Kasab qualifies because he killed many in cold blood. Your rapists apparently don39t. We live in India Damini. A country of complications and contradictions. A country with age old laws and age old people fiercely guarding them. I got an invite on Facebook today. It read quotSave womenquot. The event was at India gate, I believe. I remember shaking my head when I saw the invite. Save women All in the course of one day Things are not looking good Damini. Not for you, not for Delhi, not for India and not for humanity. People are people, but only bodily so. Inside, they39re animals. A man guns down little children in a school. Someone murders his own mother. Four drunken men rape and almost kill a defenceless woman. No, things aren39t looking good at all. Perhaps the damn Mayans were right. Perhaps the world is going to end. Because as far as I39m concerned, this is the end right here. When humanity fails, there39s nothing to look forward to. All the education we39ve received, all the upbringing we39ve had, all the degrees we39ve religiously collected, all the Gods and Goddesses we believe in - amounts to precious little if at the end of the day, we39re but as wild as a beast. And even animals are better than us. Outside the hospital, there39s a blame war raging. The BJP39s blaming the Congress. The Congress is blaming it39s Police force. The police force is blaming the society. The society is blaming the party in power. And so, like passing the parcel, everyone39s shifting their baggage of responsibility to the next person. Meanwhile, the people who really care, the people who are affected, are organizing protests and candlelight marches. The people who care, are praying for your speedy recovery. Because Damini, the truth is this. Nothing else can be done. Various measures are being put in place. No more tinted windows. More patrolling. Speedier case hearings. But you know and I know, and I know that you know that these are mere words. In a few days, there will be more sensational news. Paris Hilton coming to India perhaps, Sachinrsquos retirement, who knows And you will be forgotten. Your case will suffer the same fate hundreds of cases of despicable crime have suffered - they39ll fall into a void of nothingness. Damini, I wanted to apologize to you. Because I don39t think you39ve heard it yet. And you need to. I apologize on behalf of all the men who stare, the men who strip women nude with their eyes inside lifts on a regular basis. I apologize for the men who justify such acts by pointing fingers at the clothes that women wear. I apologize for the police officer whose hungry eyes make you think twice about writing a complaint. But most of all, I apologize for the scarring trauma and pain my side of the sex has caused you. Me, my girlfriend, my sister and my father mother wish you a speedy recovery. With apologies, Your helpless brother.
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I agree with you Shivani... and amen to your wish...
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just a small correction : "....all to bring justice to the accused" , ppl want to bring justice to the innocent, not d accused... Anyways many thanks 2 u for sharing this Bona fide piece of writing. My heartfelt condolences to the brave heart. May her family gets a speedy justice.
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All I pray for now is that society to change and collectively take a oath that such incidence should never happen again... and this change is what i expect from the society, people and individual and this will be my appreciation.
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If the above lines are not mere wordings but feelings from heart(and such feelings should not to be from an individual but from the entire society) then only girls can feel safe.And...... the above message doesn't require any comment,instead a hearty appreciation!
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