THE STORY BEHIND THE TRAUMA OF A HELPLESS GIRL WAILING BEFORE A RUTHLESS GOD-MAN

Lights! Camera! Action! The girl who was no one to anyone till last week has now suddenly turned out to be someone to everyone. The media lights have suddenly filled every corner of her house covering every single word that her family speaks. The, if not for now, less important house, has become the land mark for the entire neighborhood.

 Men in uniform started guarding her house day and night. The girl has suddenly entered the spot light with the entire country looking up to her. Who exactly is she? The winner of the Miss India contest 2013? The topper of IIT-JEE!  A celebrity! She is a 16 year old rape victim, molested by a 64 year old self proclaimed God Man, Sri Asaram Bapu.

The morning newspaper of 1^st September moved the entire nation into action. A number of women welfare association started demanding the arrest of the Guru, while many blind followers of the Spiritual God Man began hunger strikes.

But to this little girl, living in the heart of Jodhpur, that day was the worst day of her life. The first page of every newspaper covered her story and the reporters all over the country started speaking of her. She was forced into the lime light when she couldn’t even show her face to her parents.

Deep inside, she had a lot of conversation going on in her mind, but the words never dared come out her. The scary figure of the Guru, whom her father always regarded as their God, had turned out to be a night mare for her. Every wink of eye, reminded her of the worst seconds she had spent within the four walls of the ashram.

But there was not even one second left for her to sleep in the lap of her mother and weep or to get warmth lying on the shoulder of her father. Not even one drop of sorrow could escape the lights of media. Her life was no more private. Every single reporter aired her story for hours together sitting in her balcony and those who couldn’t reach her spoke of a story that even she had never heard of before.

Within two days, the entire country started speaking of her. Disciples demanded the release of their God, experts discussed various punishments available in the system, media telecasted every minor fact with the same sensation and citizens watched it with the same enthusiasm. Everybody had the same feelings of sympathy towards this minor girl who was sexually assaulted and the story of cursing the accused went through for hours together in every public place.

 But, the youth of India had a different perspective for life. “This is not the first time, faith was murdered and she is not the first girl who faced this situation. So instead of fighting for stricter punishments for the accused, let’s start fighting for the mental happiness of the victims, because, the happiness of the victim doesn’t lie in the death of the accused but in his/her self dignity”, is what Young India believes in.

For once, let us pay heed to the candle marches and the innovative ideas of the students, instead of devoting ourselves to the same old sympathetic statements of the politicians for, it is not sympathy that the victim requires but a bit of humanity.