27 December 2012, 12:35 PM IST
The world has come to an end.
The precise day, Dec 16, 2012 will be inked in our minds, in our writs, in our social media boards and forums, in our blogs, in our comments and maybe, for a change, in our legislative procedures as the day sanity, sanctity and safety died a brutal death in the person of a 23-year-old whose very existence, represents our collective damnation.
Niirbhaya, or the fearless one, as this newspaper calls her, is fighting for life for the last 10 days after being brutally gang-raped in the heart of the capital. She is fighting for survival. To want to live, to dare to live, would perhaps be a tad ambitious for any girl given the prevalent bestial, inhuman and senseless preying that is a routinely acknowledged fact in India, today.
Truthfully though, not just she, you are dithering on the edge of survival, yours are threatened, you are the victim. Struggling for a breath, but alive. For, when the accused left her for dead, what they didn't realize was that they left her, alive.
Niirbhaya's will to survive is the soul of this trauma. Will it be shepherded and avenged or will it be subdued and silenced? Silenced even as hundreds upon hundreds of children undergo similar, shameful, heinous atrocity every day. Shuffled beneath reams of newspaper reports that are cyclical in reportage (yes, to our disdain and shame this is a crime that is perpetrated nearly daily and reported more often than that!). Or will we, collectively rustle up the courage to protest, and the conviction to follow through?
Have you been raped today - section 376 (2)(g)? How have you been butchered- section 377? Who has murdered your conscience? Who silenced your voice today? Who pelted your perseverance? Who snuffed your dignity - section 394? Who stabbed your selfhood - section 365? Did you await the Mayan prophecy for your apocalypse? How many sections will need to be invoked before we stagger to consciousness?
As timorous as it may be, this trigger marks on the one hand, the end of decency in our society and the beginning of rightful outrage on the other. We have to choose between those two states-of-being, for there is no other way out. So go ahead and participate in that protest march, go ahead and sign the petition, go ahead and inundate your FB with countless shares, go ahead and badger with your pen what this country's administration should be doing with the sword, go ahead and choose your TIP (Test Identification Parade), so that one girl's will to live wins for us, what each one of us has lost, the instinct to survive.
I am ashamed, I am responsible, I was defeated that night, and every other when an innocent life is assaulted, I am the witness but, I am also the change agent.
As are you.
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