Source: The Sangai Express
New Delhi, October 14:
In the wake of increasing instances of rape in the capital city, the Manipuri Students' Association Delhi (MSAD) has submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister of Delhi yesterday.
The alarming social reality is being constantly thrust upon the helpless victims.
Ranging from girls below 5 years to 80 year old women, rape has become a scary and traumatic reality, highlighted the memorandum.
It is a pertinent question to ask why and how these incidents are happening unabated, it remarked.
There is hardly any day on which newspapers do not report about molestation, rape, eve teasing etc.
IP University College and Mukherjee Nagar molestation incidents were just one of those many eye openers, it stated.
Asking what the Governments (both Delhi and Union) are doing to curb the menace, the MSAD asserted that the concerned authority should take moral responsibility for all these shameful and uncouth acts.
"If we remain silent on these distasteful incidents, perhaps, the time is not far when all the girls and women in India cover their faces not because of the 'pardah system' but to safeguard their modesty and to avoid social ostracism".
It is an urgent necessity to fight back the continuing threat on women's chastity particularly since no society can progress without a collective enjoyment of freedom and equality.
MSAD also expressed its concern for the increasing sexual harassments of girls and racial discrimination (irrespective of sex) of the people from the Northeastern region of India (read as mongoloid stocks of Northeastern India).
It is an usual experience that students and persons hailing from Northeastern region of India are treated as the 'other' with specific categories that suit the malicious dominant consciousness and prejudices.
The 'otherness' of the 'other' is categorized as barbarous, uncivil, unrefined, underdeveloped, tribal, easy and so on, which determine a social relationship that establishes racial prejudices with ultimate capacity to reproduce exploitation, domination and harassment of the 'other' in the hands of the dominant, mentioned the memorandum.
Taking serious note of the alleged discriminatory attitude, MSAD appealed to the Government to consider the matter and to take up prompt initiative in order to make Delhi a safe city for women in general and from sexual harassments of girls and racial discrimination (irrespective of sex) of the people from the Northeastern side of India (read as mongoloid stocks of Northeastern India).
MSAD also demanded a white paper from the Government regarding its initiative fully emphasizing a practical solution to the menace.