Did you know, my country is a woman, worshiped like a deity draped in her symbolic elegant tri-colour. She's a woman of purest beliefs and all things strength and valor. Did you know that a woman in India is the equivalent to the human form of a Goddess? Did you know? The biggest irony that my country slams at my face, is that, half its people take a sadistic, gruesome pleasure in torturing their "goddesses"?
This shouldn't even make you gasp. Why? Well, you and I are among those who conveniently ignore and continue to worship their Goddesses. Harrowing? Heart breaking? I'll run out of epithets but for each epithet I fall short of, somewhere, in this country, a 'Goddess' will be brutally stripped off her purity and pride ; forced, and deprived of her free will. 'Rape' is a small description you see, it's something you and I view as an act of insanity driven, carnal, unforgivable misbehaviour, more often than not in public eye. A crime, committed against some unknown face, her mistake? Well she has a vagina, a feminine built and happened to be at the wrong place in the wrong time.
Have you spared a thought about the others? The other half of India that is perhaps subject to the same fate, just behind closed doors, by a face she was entrusted to depend on for the rest of her life? Well yes, I am talking about marital rape. So you gasped here? Why? How could that happen? Well, it does and that is the sad reality. By definition, you and I are not even allowed near a Goddess, without her permission. Then there are those slaves to shallow thinking and primal insanity who have an audacity to consider women as mere possessions, more of 'What they own' and not a significant other or a wife.
I'll just add to your horror, there probably isn't any legal action for such severe acts of hidden crime, she is 'married' to that 'man',you know. So he practically owns her, has the right to enforce himself on her, as and when he likes. So what is our 'Goddesses' to do? She can't possibly bolt and run from her vows now, she's the one things are expected of, so each morning she'll put up the radiant smile and a near perfect display of tranquility when inside, her soul is on the look out for the first opportunity to flee before she is made to die again at night. There is society, she can't complain, she chose to marry who she did. Isn't there a law either? She has no help to seek, because, the majority, consisting of you and I never thought 'husbands' would need to be bound under such laws. The significant other you know.
Hence, you don't criminalize marital rape, you just throw my Goddess to a pit, in the den of a vicious predator, ready to be killed bit by bit for the rest of her life and I'll leave you to this while you debate about to do or not to do. While you are at this though, do look up the statistics of marital rape in India. You are an Indian and you see, your country is a deity, dropped in her elegant tri-colour.
AUTHOR:-
Rinita Das
This shouldn't even make you gasp. Why? Well, you and I are among those who conveniently ignore and continue to worship their Goddesses. Harrowing? Heart breaking? I'll run out of epithets but for each epithet I fall short of, somewhere, in this country, a 'Goddess' will be brutally stripped off her purity and pride ; forced, and deprived of her free will. 'Rape' is a small description you see, it's something you and I view as an act of insanity driven, carnal, unforgivable misbehaviour, more often than not in public eye. A crime, committed against some unknown face, her mistake? Well she has a vagina, a feminine built and happened to be at the wrong place in the wrong time.
Have you spared a thought about the others? The other half of India that is perhaps subject to the same fate, just behind closed doors, by a face she was entrusted to depend on for the rest of her life? Well yes, I am talking about marital rape. So you gasped here? Why? How could that happen? Well, it does and that is the sad reality. By definition, you and I are not even allowed near a Goddess, without her permission. Then there are those slaves to shallow thinking and primal insanity who have an audacity to consider women as mere possessions, more of 'What they own' and not a significant other or a wife.
I'll just add to your horror, there probably isn't any legal action for such severe acts of hidden crime, she is 'married' to that 'man',you know. So he practically owns her, has the right to enforce himself on her, as and when he likes. So what is our 'Goddesses' to do? She can't possibly bolt and run from her vows now, she's the one things are expected of, so each morning she'll put up the radiant smile and a near perfect display of tranquility when inside, her soul is on the look out for the first opportunity to flee before she is made to die again at night. There is society, she can't complain, she chose to marry who she did. Isn't there a law either? She has no help to seek, because, the majority, consisting of you and I never thought 'husbands' would need to be bound under such laws. The significant other you know.
Hence, you don't criminalize marital rape, you just throw my Goddess to a pit, in the den of a vicious predator, ready to be killed bit by bit for the rest of her life and I'll leave you to this while you debate about to do or not to do. While you are at this though, do look up the statistics of marital rape in India. You are an Indian and you see, your country is a deity, dropped in her elegant tri-colour.
AUTHOR:-
Rinita Das
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