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| Photo courtesy: Ali Express |
(This is a conceptual story of a girl, "Nirbhaya", victim of gang rape.)
The clock struck 2.30
am. She tried to open her eyes.” Ahhh…Mom…” She wanted to call out. But she
felt as if she had lost control over her body; she felt her throat was about to
fall apart.
“Doctor….doctor…HELP!
HELP!”--She heard her mother crying out.
”Oh, Mom...you are here?
What’s the matter? - She wanted to open her lips to say these words, but
couldn’t. So she decided to listen as it was all what she could do at the
moment.
“I am sorry, I couldn’t rescue her.” She heard her doctor’s feeble voice.
Suddenly a loud wail reverberated within the ICU walls.
Now she could see her
family. She felt tranquil and unusually peaceful. Her aching body had
disappeared, instead she felt as if floating in the air...She enjoyed that
state of tranquility, but the chaos in the room distracted her. Wait..!! who’s
that girl, near my parents? It’s a dead body, around which her whole family was
crying out … ..I am….Am I dead???
She came out of the
hospital .The place was crowded. Reporters, protesters...
Oh, it’s my ma’am .She
is also here?
“What kind of a girl was
Nirbhaya?” – One reporter asked her teacher who was trying to stop her tears.
“Nirbhaya was so
intelligent with full of dreams and energy.”- Her words broke as a chilly gust
of wind rushed by. The teacher wanted to say a whole story about her but she
could only gaze at the journalist as if she had frozen in anguish.
Nirbhaya-A girl, who
lived carefree, basking in all emotions that spur up in her...enjoyed each
weed, plant or flower on the sides of the muddy pavement as she walked to
school...talked to trees and they swayed back to her. She was dreamy, the smell
of mud during rain made her ecstatic as she sat in her Veranda cherishing the
dark sky...
As the change of
Seasons, the color of her cheeks too changed...She knew no flaws and was with a
golden heart...She had teachers unfashionable but honest and pure. She read
about the Great Philosophers in awe. And today, she has become the breaking
news for the media. .
Suddenly, she started
sweeping away in the wind. She dissolved in the wind. Her presence empowered
each molecule in it.
Same wind might have
entered into the lungs and body of each living being in this world. Didn’t you
feel her presence????
What we have done for
her? What steps have we taken for the protection of girls and women?
Hasn’t this become a
common news, now-days?- about babies, girls, and even woman officials are being
torn down for the lust of flesh??Who can escape from these morons?
But it is not far that
this turbulent wind enters their lungs and nostrils, chocking them to death.
Each one of us are culprits and answerable to Nirbhaya and many others.
Can’t you hear her,
whimpering in the wind ----“WAKE UP…..DO SOMETHING……PLEASE ACT NOW”
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