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The outrage against rape cases in India has reached it's apex.Public outrage is at a phenomenal high and is unquestionably demanding the execution of the perpetrators.But there is a grave risk with this movement.The people are asking for too little in demanding the death penalty for the perpetrators.Their death may certainly be justice for the deceased girl but their death will not kill the real demons that produce and release these monsters in society.The government is hoping to end this outrage by promptly getting a ‘rarest of rare’ verdict delivered and hang the bastards and put an end to a misfounded movement that is seeking just revenge not reform.

The movement is misfounded because it has no long term goals in sight.It is evidently fighting for the dignity of women in society but raising placards and putting up banners that read “Safety for Women” and demands for a kangaroo-court style justice simply won’t help their cause.And a weak government that is unable to put in place real reforms is also playing the safe bet by going with the flow and declaring that the matter will end with the death of the rapists.Real reforms will be when we look at the greater problems that confound Indian society.

Indian society is essentially patriarchal and women reforms over the previous few years have been nothing greater than a hoax.Women continue to be treated like objects and it would not be unwise to assume that any great change has come in their social standing.

As the Indian Republic heads into its 64th year, we seem to be caught between an illiberal, insensitive government-political class and a rampaging mob demanding instant solutions, with only a thin line separating the two. The gang rape ought to have been understood as a complex socio-political issue, resulting as much from bad policing as from entrenched notions of female purity and honour. For all its veneer of modernity, India is essentially an overgrown patriarchy characterised by its violent intolerance of the liberated woman. Honour killings and rapes are not new but today they are executed with a brutality that suggests a compelling male need to subjugate and overpower women of a particular kind: those that live life on their own terms.

This overwhelming sense of male dominance is what needs to be crushed.The real reason why these rapes occur is not due to bad policing but because of a compelling male need to subjugate women,to assert their singular control over them.And women will be free from these crimes the day they are truly equal to men in every spirit.A harsher rape law will not deter anyone.The Patiala Rape incident that happened when public outrage was at it’s apex has shown that these deterrents are useless.However when a mental image of a women being an inferior being is deleted from a man’s mind,he will never ever dare to look upon a women as an object which he can manipulate according to his whims.

Ask for real reforms not for instant justice.Justice will sooner or later catch up with these bastards but this outrage must not go waste.It must be channelised to force an incompetent government to draft laws that aim at raising the social stature of women in society.The real deterrent to rape is moral.It is when every girl and boy is brought up with a sense of equality,it is when they consider themselves as equal halves of a society.It is when women are given true representation in society and when their voices are really heard will we be really hoping for a better society.I hope we don’t find ourselves on the streets another six months later mourning for another nameless life snuffed out just because we were too short-sighted to ignore the real demons that plague our society.

Sorry guys that was a hurried mobile post.Please excuse my typos and expect a formal post very soon.

Honourable Nations,

Diplomacy has been a longstanding tenet of our regional management and to regulate it further,I am pleased to introduce the first draft of the Indian Diplomats and Envoys Relations Act.Please click the link in the forum and study the document.It will be a monumental step in determining the exact nature of our relations with other regions and their Diplomats.

You can propose changes here on the RMB.Voting for this draft to be approvedwill take place by a show of public support on the RMB a week later.

Thanks

IJS