Is women stalking a hindrance in India’s progress? Stalking is not a new phenomenon but it is an old way of pursuing people to fall in love with you. Our Hindi movies , which have widest range and reach to the audience, the hero is shown regularly stalking a girl, till she gives in and lives happily ever after, but it does give very poor and wrong impression to the people, in a country like ours , which has patriarch dominance, male authoritarian figures and females are not treated with either equality be it social or economic, this kind of act is taken as act of valor and gives wrong impression to male, who are growing up, less educated and feel females as an object, they get a feel of fun, frolic and game- chasing a female.
Is women stalking a hindrance in India’s progress?
“He, who searches for evil, must first look at his own
reflection.”
-Confucius
Stalking is not a new phenomenon but it is an old way of
pursuing people to fall in love with you. Our Hindi movies , which have widest
range and reach to the audience, the hero is shown regularly stalking a girl,
till she gives in and lives happily ever after, but it does give very poor and
wrong impression to the people, in a country like ours , which has patriarch
dominance, male authoritarian figures and females are not treated with either
equality be it social or economic, this kind of act is taken as act of valor
and gives wrong impression to male, who are growing up, less educated and feel
females as an object, they get a feel of fun, frolic and game- chasing a
female.
There was a celebrated case in 1996, where we all know the
pursuer was a son of a high ranking police official, thus the end was tragic,
where the girl in question gets killed.
The stalking is not a mere phenomenon of rural India or
uneducated but also of high, mighty and powerful, thus we see that safety of
woman are an issue or a threat because, male of our society cannot take no as
an answer and also feel it hurts their ego and self esteem.
More than 18,000 cases of stalking were registered in last
three years in the country, the Lok Sabha was informed today. According to the
statistics on crime against women tabled by Minister of State for Home, Hansrai
Ahir, stalking cases showed a consistent rise in last three years. As per the
data 7,132 cases of stalking were registered in 2016, 6,266 cases in 2015 and
4,699 cases in 2014. Mr Ahir said as many as 8,620 people were arrested for
cases related to stalking and 481 convicted for the same in 2016. In 2015, a
total of 6,694 people were arrested and 473 were convicted, while in 2014, as
many as 5,439 people were arrested and 262 were convicted for stalking-related
crimes, the minister said.
Thus we can see this kind of activity, makes sure 50 % of
the talented and achievers have social, physical and emotional threat, this
does not mean all are subject to stalking but there are equal chances for every
female to be subjected to this kind of mental trauma and agony, may be this is
one of the reasons which is keeping the people away from taking career of their
choice and making their presence felt.
But all this is causing harm to our economic and social
fabric, Government of the day as well as parents pay huge amount of money to
make a child professionally qualified, when this qualified person, is not able to
contribute in her capacity then it means loss of GDP for the economy, a
engineer , doctor or PhD. by taking classes or teaching kids, which is
important but is under utilization of her capacity, similarly lot of less
educated people, or highly qualified can work in workshops, factory, fields and
small places and contribute to family income, live a better life, fight poverty
and also contribute to the GDP.
So we can see how people being prevented from leading a
better economic life due to a social and moral evil, is stopping India from
growing, developing and also achieving.
Just think about last Olympic, most of our gold medals were
won by female athletes, who also had to go through lots of innuendo, remarks
and discouragement even for the male coaches they trained with, along with co
athletes, the Indian female cricket team defeated female Pakistan cricket team
in the World cup, which their male counterpart failed to do, thus we can see in
many fields, our female population is not only equal but much better than any
men, the mother is the best manager, hence we can see this kind of immoral, un
lawful, disrespectful psychopathic acts prevents people from performing on
bigger stage.
Also our society is also male dominated, many a times rumors
are being spread in case we do not get the girl of our choice and do character
assassination of the girl. Now a day’s lots of crimes are reported to the
police, lots of crime related shows create awareness amongst people but facing
this kind of situation and dealing with it; it’s a different ball game.
Society and country is made up of people, people who
contribute in their own way to make the country and society at large,
successful and bring new dimensions to its people, we have seen how females got
together and formed the first cooperative which became famous as milk
revolution. As an individual we face lot of challenges, criticism and barriers
when we try to do something be it a normal or out of the box activity, thus
this kind of act is not only highly condemnable but also punishable and
unlawful.
We have to look at the world where people are equal with
equal opportunities, the role model and leaders may not be only male, we as a
country, Srilanka, UK have seen female PM, who were may be tougher than any
male counterpart. Hence this kind of act prevents blooming of talent and also
leads to fear psychosis amongst the female members, we not only have to condemn
them but also fight it, eradicate this evil as soon as we can for our own
social, economic and political growth.
Let’s pledge to make India better, safer and land of equal
opportunities, for this time has come to rise and fight this evil.
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