An amendment they call it….why this big word has little importance in our country is beyond me. When I read the papers that splash this amendment all over the paper but have a nagging doubt if it will ever see some daylight! This amendment that has made an appearance after decades of struggle from the activists fighting for a safe future for our womankind, will it really get effective support?
Amateur is what I call myself in this arena. I believe every girl everywhere must have gone through a kind of harassment somewhere at some point of time,what she does or how she deals with it might be different.what was her fault i ask myself.was it that she was born a girl to begin with?or is it the a handful of males can't accept her as part of the so called their “domain”. Though this change is welcome, it still belittles the trauma faced by the victim to a mere punishment of small fines and leniency on part of the police force.
The government expects a woman to voice out when she is harassed sexually or abused in any manner. How it asks of it so blatantly is hard to understand. Especially when a few shameless police officials are part of this crime? How does a person expect a sound response when he has stifled it with so much ease? Would it feel akin to being choked and asked to speak just after releasing the grip?
In all the emotional tangles she faces that are a mixture of shame, humiliation, helplessness, anger and frustration,this may seem like a small ray of light after a turbulent dark night.what the government fails to notice is that if this amendment has taken 3 decades to take some hazy form,how long would it be effectively implemented to erase the crimes in the sector which are running in 5 digit scales already?
is this consideration, an elusion or just an illusion?
