Life, Gender, and Law

Of all the things whose prices have been increasing day-by-day, life seems to be the cheapest. Not only the value of price has dropped in the last few years, the margin of its decrease is increasing everyday. We do not value life, whether human or animal, anymore. What started as a poaching of animals for the pleasure of killing and trade purposes, people have come a long way in committing crime amongst themselves by killing each other for money and other selfish reasons. There is increasing news of gruesome killings owing to quarrels, honour killing, murder in a bid to rape, murder after rape, and crime related to property disputes. Depravity and wickedness have become a state of the common mind.

Added to it are atrocities against women in the form of female feticide, killing of female new born, rape, domestic violence, marital rape, mental and physical torture for dowry, attempt to murder to make way for illicit relationships, and finally death of the victim to prevent identification of the criminal.

And then there is law, which is known more for delayed justice owing to piling of court cases and denied justice due to our corrupt system.

We blame our society and inefficient police system and judiciary for all the wrong happening in society. But, have we ever stopped and wondered as to what consists of society? It is we that the society is made of, rather put it as, the society is made of us, the people. We, the people, choose not to vote and do away with our basic fundamental rights and duties. In return, we get a government of the hooligans, for the criminals, and by the corrupt. We choose to criticize the system instead of taking part in the system or being a part of the system. We choose to tell our daughters to be safe rather tell our sons to behave themselves. We choose to celebrate the birth of a male child rather than treating our girl child as our own and spending our resources for their growth and upliftment. We choose to fear and keep ourselves mute and deaf to the corruption around us rather than raise our voice against that is profoundly immoral and malevolent. We choose to peep through the eyeholes in our doors and from our balconies rather than show our support to those who wish to bring a change around us. We, the people, are responsible for our doom because we have lost our calm and focus towards society in which we thrive and multiply, considering it our right to disrupt the peace and defer the rules that have been set for our own well being.