Monday, July 10, 2006 ||
10:14 PM ||
A groping hand, leering looks, leching lips and a lusty breath; she says its often writ large on his face. Disgusted and on the verge of tears, she confesses to having felt stripped naked in the midst of scores of probing eyes.
The state that has the highest female literacy in the country has been reeling under a series of outrageous sex scandals that revealed its battered victims to have been literally thrown to the dogs. Kerala has in the last few years seen an astonishing rise in sexual crimes against women, and it has been barely two weeks since we saw a six year old and a seven year old girl having been brutally raped and killed by juvenile delinquents barely into their teens themselves, in two separate incidents in the state. Ranging from crimes as eve teasing to molestation to acid attacks to dowry deaths, we have seen it all. Appallingly, there seems to be no positive correlation between the ever rising educational status of the women and their ever declining social status, which emphatically breaks down the age old myth that education invariably, leads to empowerment. Trivandrum has the added notoriety of being a city that assumes darker shades than usual with the sun having set, with the penultimate result that one barely sees a woman by herself on the streets once the clock has struck an explicit eight. The horrendous phenomenon seems to have spread evenly across the world, as is evident from Keshis post here, and Sri commenting here. Sad, but indeed true!
I came across the The Blank Noise Project, the other day, which is a pertinent platform and a support group to voice thoughts, to give vent to frustrations and probably decide once and for all, that enough is enough. There was very little that I could do other wise, and hence I decided to Blogroll them, and spread the word. Hope this helps!