“I WAS BEATEN BLACK AND BLUE, AND LEFT TO STARVE FOR DAYS …” Jacintha, a woman from Mangalore, Karnataka, was a nurse who had three children at home to care of. She was offered a better nursing job in one of the gulf countries called Qatar, by a local agent. A job offer for 25,000 was hard to decline and accepted the same. Instead of the mentioned place, she was taken to Saudi and forced into slavery. Her life was bound for misery after the trafficking. She was slapped, kicked, burned, and forced to do service for the family. She was sold in the black market and was bought by the family for 5lakhs rupees mentioned by the family. She was deprived of food, water, and any type of communication. One day she was lucky enough to get hold of a phone and reach out to her children. Her children reached out to the police, people, and family but in vain, they couldn’t find any help. They were found by the HUMAN RIGHT PROTECTION FOUNDATION, Udupi and Dr. Ravindranath Shanbha...
“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 ...