I am so disgusted reading all these horrifying stories of women assaults filling up my newsfeed on almost every social media. But the frequency and barbarity perpetrated by these incidents seems to be hitting new lows everday. From the rape of a two month baby girl to an eight year old, these cases defy every single element of humanity. The most scandalizing factor which has never been seen before is politicisation of anything and everything including a sensitive issue like rape. Now people are not so much outraged about a rape incident as much as they are for the lack of media coverage of some other rape incident which happened with some other girl of some other religion in some other village of some other city linking it to deep political agendas of political parties highlighting only few cases for personal benefit. All of a sudden as these two cases of Unnao and Kathua gained so much attention, many started arguing about how the cases were forged aimed at demeaning the ruling government. A national daily even went on to publish front page story declaring no rape actually happened in Kathua. Sadly in this tumultuous situation, we slowly lost our purpose which I think should have surely been demanding justice for the rape victims but ‘What about that case’ instead became the new trend. We are still busy arguing on things like ‘whether or not rape happened’ and ‘Why Asifa ?’, ‘Why not Geeta’ and the likes of these. But I have a serious question for people resorting to this level of whataboutery.
Neither Asifa nor Geeta was your daughter and I really wish all your daughters, sisters and even girlfriends stay safe, but God forbid if something happens to them in a safe country like ours, whose story would you choose to cover up the assault on your girl ?( although getting any rape story shouldn’t be an ordeal; rapes have almost become a part of our culture as stated by many notable politicians )