#JusticeForManisha
29th September 2020.
Bombay.
In 1982, almost 38 years ago, Raj Kapoor made a movie titled 'Prem Rog'. The movie starred Rishi Kapoor and Padmini Kohlapuri.
It was a movie with a message. The message of caste based segregation and targeting of women of lower caste was the theme. The master story teller Raj Kapoor wove a tale around this bad practice prevalent in our society and even exposed the upper caste on how
they treat their own women when they fall on a tragedy.
Nothing has changed in all these 38 odd years that the movie, a block buster at the box office, was released.
Probably the current generation has not even watched the movie.
But the reason nothing has changed is not because India has remained rooted at the same place but because no matter what, we are unwilling to give up our largely defunct caste system and claim privileges by birth. What was supposed to give people protection in
their trade and continuity in trade has become an instrument of suppression.
The brutal rape and murder of a girl in Hathras is a signpost. She is dead but there are many girls and ladies that survive and live with the trauma for all their lives.
No amount of fast tracking of justice system can set this right. Respect for a woman begins at home. Unless we teach this to our kids, we will never be able to do away with such acts of crime against women.
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