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A THURSDAY


 

  “meri beti ke rapists mile kya?”    A THURSDAY is an Indian based Hindi movie, it’s a thriller movie where naina, a playschool teacher, takes 16 students hostage. Rattling the police and political leaders, her demands sends shockwaves through the country.

This blog is not about the movie but the question raised, in this movie. The issue which is been discussed throughout history till today; is rape. It’s the most sensitive and existing adversity in every corner of the world. Naina(the movie character) was raped at the age of 16 and her mother approached the police for 2 whole years but still, the rapists were out there alive roaming. This showed how the executive system worked to find the rapist of a 16-year-old girl child and we don’t know how many such cases are unheard or undocumented.

“Capital punishment for rape” this demand was put forward in the movie. To put forward it nicely capital punishment for ‘convicted’ rapists. In India capital punishment is given in rarest of rare cases and there is no criterion or test to decide rarest of the rare case, not to mention the time period it takes to prove it. But the question raised here is can really capital punishment be given to rapists? Will, it not amount to more gruesome acts like rape and murder since the offence involves capital punishment in the end? Can rapes really be curtailed by imposing it? Capital punishment is a means, a need, for the women’s to hold onto and for once feel safe without feeling lusted. But as they say law doesn’t work on feelings.

POCSO act a right step but in wrong direction- The Protection Of Children against Sexual Offenders act, 2012. This act in India punishes all the convicts for rapes or sexual assault against children. But this act is limited to the children of age 16 so why not others? Girls as young as 8 months to women as old as 70 yrs. have been raped. According to official statistics one women is raped in every 16 minutes and the unofficial is still undocumented. At the end its either to fight or hang.

In the movie, how the approach is depicted was wrong (kidnapping 16 kids) and she did get the punishment for it but just imagine in real life, does one really have to go to such heights just to be heard out? Is this really freedom of speech we talk about? Do the victims only deserve a candle march? Be it the queen who walked in front of a tyrant or a man who walked for kilometers to lick a grain of salt, they all broke the laws. Now, this is our time to make new laws.

Rape rehabilitation center is one of the great initiative in India. If anyone would like to donate, can also search for NGO sites, that actually help rape victims.

A Thursday when India woke up

           When will that Thursday come?

 

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