EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN- A CONFUSING STATEMENT!

Shymal is a poor farmer with a small amount of land to till of his own. He along with his wife’s diligence, they are capable to yield food crops and other seasonal crops and somehow managed to maintain his family. His daughter, Anita is now studying in class twelve. She has done pretty well in her first public examination and now pursuing her further studies with science. Her dream is to become a doctor in future. In the rural vicinity, there is always a dearth of doctors. Doctors love to establish themselves in the urban areas, where all civic amenities and comforts are available. Naturally, they tend to shun their roots. Consequently, people in the rural populace are deprived of quality doctors and have to resort to quacks to get rid of ailments. However, Anita’s aim is to serve the people of the rural areas, where she is living and having an honest intent to mitigate the plight of the rural people, who are economically weak and vulnerable by all means. She wants to stand on her own feet and provide support to her family. Her father’s toil and sacrifice to provide education to her and her brother, made her more accountable to her family. Her brother, Abhi is equally a good student, studying in class eight. These two siblings love themselves very much and complement each other always. It is not that they do not pick fight between them, but, this sweet mock fighting actually enables them with healthier bonding. The whole family thus shares a love and amity among them with utter delight.

Shymal equally having a dream of making his children self-reliant in their respected areas in terms of their efficacies, unlike the occupation h is engaged with. Accordingly he tries his level best to provide them with the amenities of studies to excel. He equally spends quality time with his wife and children and enjoys a soothing company of them. His struggling also appears as pleasing, as he is contented with his utmost endeavor to deliver services for them. As a devoted husband and a father, he enjoys profuse love and affection of his family, which made him utterly contented.

Anita is nowadays in a very jovial state of mind. She recently got a bicycle out of a government scheme in order to assist rural girls to carry out their livelihood comfortably. Besides, she also got scholarship to carry out her studies which is also under a scheme, designed to empower women fraternity, enabling them to consolidate economically and socially.

Anita now can visit to a distant place effortlessly to take tuition. Besides, she also travel to a place of little distant to give tuition to the poor children and manage to earn little money to pull out her expenses, not to depend entirely on her father. Her parents also satisfied to observe, how she is venturing her avenues with delight.

One day, while coming back from taking tuition from a little distant place, she was entirely engrosses in her own domain of thought. It was around 7.30 P.M. The place through which she was passing, having no street light. But, as she was conversant with this place, not very far from her house, she was riding her bicycle in a  palatable manner. Suddenly, few men pounced on her, dragging her to the field beside the road and brutally tortured her. One after another, four or five men raped her. Knowing it evidently that she could identify them easily, the perpetrators hacked her till death. A promising life thus unceremoniously abruptly concluded. When her parents came to know such untoward incident, which has taken toll of life of their dear daughter, they are at a loss. Their plights have no leaps and bound. All of a sudden their all dreams engulfed with dark despair.

How long women will be subjected to such atrocities? Bicycle, a symbol of pace, aiming to bring prosperity to women fraternity, abruptly haunted with a cacophony, a sound to hinder and gag the sound of growth and prosperity and eventually being aimed to usher a healthy growth to the posterity, sadly concluded by converting it into a dismal journey. It is sheer enigma, how spiral motion being hindered, not allowing to transcend with an emphatic gesture of empowering women! How men dominating women since time immemorial with a plea of such heinous acts as stray incidents, being performed by few nefarious elements! Are not those perpetrators getting approval of majority men by making these incidents as trifle? The way men fraternity condemns these incidents which are recurrently taking place in our society is utterly confusing. Are we truly desirous to empower women? Because, to discriminate men with women and upholding voices for security and safety for women fraternity is just a vile intension to ignore the true essence of empowerment women. Men and women both are part and parcel of the society and separating one from the other means we are actually acting against humanity and beckoning catastrophe to the entire human race. Empowering women is thus entirely a confusing statement.