Today is being touted as Mother's Day.
Rubbish!
We don't need one Sunday a year to remind us to show love to our mother. This is a pure Western concept, where they don't have time to think of their mothers, and need a mothers day to remember them. That all these 'Days' are a Marketing Gimmick of the Greeting Card Companies like Hallmark and Archies is an open secret.
Our respect and love for mother is year long. This is what Hinduism teaches us.
Lot of absurd influences, practices and terms are creeping into our life of late.
When did we ever begin to have these Candle light marches to show our respect to a murdered person or a slain soldier? Why should we blindly follow Western practices? Can we not organize a common prayer, which is what Indians do?
I have utmost sympathy for anyone who gets raped, and worse gets murdered in the process. Mere hanging of the guys who do this atrocity is not enough. They should be made to die inch by inch, suffering pain all the way.
But to label a woman who was raped 'Nirbhaya' is the worst thing that can be done to her. Nirbhaya means one who is not afraid. For God's sake, the woman must have been scared stiff when her modesty was being violated. Please do not add insult to injury.
Another term loosely used for such a woman is 'Braveheart'. What is so 'Brave' about getting raped?
This is akin to glorifying a raped woman, which is just not acceptable.
Is it not better to just say 'Unfortunate Victim' or 'Unfortunate Woman'?
The saddest part is that everyone talks about the rape for a week and then promptly forget about it. Even then there is a bias. A woman is a Nirbhaya or Braveheart only if she is from Delhi. No one gives a damn about the Rapes or attempted Rapes happening in other parts of India, especially the smaller towns.
Hypocrisy at its worst!
