Bangalore, the IT capital of India also called as The Silicon
Valley attracted many immigrants to occupy the beautiful Garden city. The
Garden city is no more called so as the city has changed drastically in every
aspect. Bangalore was known to be calm, protective, healthy, nature friendly
etc. now after hearing to Mr. Franklin in TOI meet on Saturday – Mar-18th
2013, shocked to hear that Bangalore is the 2nd more unsafe cities
in India. Though I hear many violent activities across the city, I never
thought it would cross the limits when compared to other cities in India. We
can say that present Bangalore is unsafe, not protective, violent, unhealthy,
most polluted city in India.
Every day I watch news and I feel bad about it, because
there will be at-least one or two rape cases or murder cases or suicide cases
which has become pretty common in the city. Delhi gang rape case made the sound but
there are many such cases which are still hidden and are not known to the
common public. I would like to share two such cases which was shown on
television where girls are been attacked in the city.
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| A girl stabbed by a man |
1. A 15 year old school going girl, yet to take her 10th
exams was stabbed with the knife on her neck forcing her to love him even if
she doesn't want to. This was held in Hanumantha Nagar Bangalore. Victim’s
parents had filed a complaint before this incident had occurred. The person
released on bail and committed this activity. The girl was attacked because she
did not accepted proposal. Even police was helpless in this case. This shows
how protected a girl is in this society.
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| Teenagers getting harassed |
2. There was another case in the vicinity of the same area
where a teenage girl was harassed by few men in the locality. This girl refused
to accept the proposal from a boy; this made him to go violent and with his few
friends, he rushed into her house when she was alone. They harassed her, but
she could escape from the place as the neighbors were pretty closely
located.
I can feel the fear factor in the city which is increasing
day by day. Rapes and murders are common these days. But few modern youths have
some awareness to protect them but it is not reaching to the entire youth
segment. People are fed-up waiting for everything from the government and
shouting their lungs out against them. They want some revolution in the system
which politicians are not able to provide. They are fighting every day within
themselves for everything more than a normal man fight.
We should support, protect, and change all by ourselves.
Politicians will blame us for electing them as our leaders. So we have to take
strong steps to make it strong and effective. Let the entire citizen come out
of their comfort zone and protest against the evilness in our society. The
Anna’s moment should repeat for this too. I have listed few things that we can
inculcate in our society to be safe and protected.
- Please try to be good with everyone in all terms even if they are bad and do not try to hurt others ego or feelings.
- Be confident and carry yourself in a better way that nobody will try to harass you.
- Do not carry any self protection materials with you, it might back fire you.
- Dress really won’t matter wear what you wish, try to be in a group rather than being alone.
- Have some safety helpline numbers with you, close boyfriends and 3-4 police personal numbers which might help you any time.
- If any single person is trying to attack you, do not run but deal with him brilliantly, but if it’s a gang of guys then it’s good to escape by not thinking twice, and ring any of your friends or police immediately.
- If you are vexed from your husband don’t hesitate to slap him and go against him, and it’s again depends on the situation and how the person is.
- For kids, be careful with the people around, don’t believe anyone outsider, even your teacher if its “sir”
I want to stress on first point which I have mentioned above.
The main reasons for every crime that happen in the city are anger,
frustration, grudge, dissatisfaction, hatred. As far as I heard, most of the
crimes are committed by the known person to the victim than a third person. So I
suggest always being far from these things that definitely keep you safe and
protective. Second thing is do not believe what others influence you; they
might lead you to a wrong path and finally harass you in everything.
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| Women is being harassed |
Friends these are few tips. Advises will be given by every
person, but nobody implement them and many times even advises won’t really help
people, because the points which is mentioned above are written based on my
point of thinking, the thinking might vary from person to person based on their
experience or deep study.
After attending the conference arranged by Indiblogger.com, I was moved towards it. It’s
a nice initiative that TOI has taken but the movement is nil. People are not
even aware of what you are doing so far. Having an extra edition with women’s
problem won’t be helpful rather than solving these problems might help the
society a lot to improvise on it. Build a movement across the country; SOCIAL
MEDIA+YOUTH are always available to you 24/7 and all days. Reach out to many IT
companies to start this revolution. And just talking, meeting, agitating,
seminars, workshops won’t work the action to be taken.
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| Movement started after Delhi Gang Rape |
Being a young guy I want to stand against this violence. Please
don’t be against all male gender around you, everyone are not bad, only few of them in the society are anti-social who act like this. Let all of us come together
and make this happen. I would end with couple of quotations below; by quoting
these we can say that Bangalore is rapidly heading towards the unsafe side in the
society.
“The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world
is addicted to it.” -- Bill Cosby
“Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of
discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing
culture.” -- Charlotte Bunch
Please write to me your thoughts that
might add on to start off a new revolution.
Thank you.
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