THE DELHI RAPE CASE

When I heard about the Delhi Rape Case the first thought that came to my mind was that nowadays this has become so common and there is a hike in such incidents. Moreover such gruesome gang rape cases are reported almost every day in every news channel and newspaper.

But this particular case took a very different angle, that is, people started to protest vociferously on the roads, the government vacillating its stand was exposed and between all this the media began to divulge into the details of the girl and made it a sort of contest for viewers by posing questions like whether the identity of the victim should be revealed or not! At such dilly-dallying I turned red. I don't want to go too deep into this matter.

Instead, I feel flabbergasted at people's reactions to it. Undoubtedly we need change but not at the expense of someone's life. Just think, if we had raised our voice against such tragedies when it was at its infant stage and not left everything to the precarious and perfidious government, today such a tragedy would not have occurred. In this enigmatic situation, I feel that somewhere, it's not only the government's fault but we all are responsible for such an act! I am not assailing any particular person but the whole society because we are the ones who conjure, nurture, shape and mould the society and its norms and regulations. Finally, I pray that the soul of the girl (victim) rests in peace. I hope in the coming days we don't come across such callous disregard for Human Life by humans. 

Manoj I. Jain

III BA- PJOE