With the rising number of rape cases and mob lynchings, protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens and the farmers strike against the new farm laws, what have we come to?
Remember 2012? The most outrageous news you heard was the Nirbhaya Case—brutal is a small word for it. However, the kind of national-level outrage we witnessed was inspiring, assuring that the people of this nation won’t allow this to happen ever again.
It’s 2021 and the only thing that has changed is we’ve got used to it. The news of rapes is all over the country. If we get hold of the actual data, we will definitely find the graph going significantly upwards.
When Virat Kohli’s 9-month-old daughter gets rape threats, where’s the outrage?
In the past 7 years, there have been more than 50 cases of “lynching” or “mob lynching”—another outrageous phenomenon of the past that has slyly managed to get a place in our household.
Mob lynching—what an easy way to murder someone and get away with it. Gather a few people, prove that someone has hurt the sentiments of the “mob”, and kill that person in broad daylight, maybe in the presence of police, because no one can mess with an angry mob.
When an Akhlaq or a Pehlu Khan is lynched just for keeping an animal, where’s the outrage?
Back in 2012, we saw a revolutionary movement which later came to be known as the “Anti-Corruption Movement”, staged or not, let’s not argue on this fact, but a lot of people benefitted from it. The Lokpal Bill had become a topic of national debate and the whole country was busy discussing its pros and cons.
In 2019, the Citizenship Amendment Act was passed; the protest was confined to Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. In 2020, Farm Bills were passed and the protest was confined to Delhi borders.
When there’s a clear perspective of harming a section of the society by passing these bills, where’s the outrage?
Kangana Ranaut has recently said in an interview that in 1947 what we got was bheekh, the real freedom we got in 2014 (when BJP came to power). Just because she is a right-wing supporter, she has no right to belittle the struggle of our freedom fighters.
For the past few years, it has been normalised to speak well of Nathuram Godse, the first terrorist of free India. Mahesh Manjrekar is making a film on Godse and by announcing the film on Gandhi Jayanti, he proposed that people should know the other side of the story as well.
When the political leaders enact the killing of Gandhi by shooting his statue, where’s the outrage?
The curious case of missing the “outrage” from the people of this country is actually not their fault. When you hear similar news every other day, you get saturated and bored of it and after a point, you don’t even care about it. The system works like that; it normalises the evilest of things in society and what was “outrageous” to you yesterday becomes “normal” today.