We Are Not Your Daughters
We do not want to be India’s little girls.
On the 14th of September, 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit female from the city of Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, was completely gang-raped by 4 upper-caste Thakur males. They additionally gouged out her eyes, removed her tongue, and also damaged her spine due to which she endured several cracks and also extreme blood loss. On the 29th of September, she caught her injuries and also came to be simply one more fact in India — a nation in which a female is raped every 15 mins.
While all 4 charged were detained, the Uttar Pradesh cops rejected to turn over the female’s temporal remains to her household and also vigorously cremated her in the very early hrs of the 30th of September. The horrible occurrence (appropriately) stimulated outrage among Indians with several objecting the activities of the cops and also requiring an end to our nation’s common rape society.
Like several, several various other females prior to her, Manisha Valmiki was christened ‘India’s little girl’, since that’s that you come to be when something terrible and also offensive occurs to you.
Mere hrs after Manisha’s fatality, a 22-year-old Dalit female from Balrampur, additionally in Uttar Pradesh, passed away after being drugged and also gang-raped by 2 males. She additionally came to be India’s little girl — a female that functions as a carriage for the nation’s shame.
Remember the Unnao rape sufferer? She was additionally India’s little girl — a female that births the weight of our nation’s cumulative failing. 8-year-old Asifa was additionally India’s little girl therefore was Priyanka Reddy. And after that there was Jyoti Singh — India’s Nirbhaya, possibly India’s initial little girl.
Being India’s little girl requires a great deal of stress and also sacrifices. You need to withstand the discomfort of being lowered to a simple things. You need to tolerate the challenge of being regularly burglarized of your firm. You need to experience through a system that stands versus you in every you can possibly imagine method. Being India’s little girl is associated with having your presence eliminated in one of the most terrible fashion feasible. Being India’s little girl is having justice refuted to you at every action of the method.
We lug concern within us. We lug craze. We lug unhappiness. But we do not want to lug even more worries due to the fact that being India’s little girl is a worry.
It should not be our cross to lug.
We’re not your little girls. We do not want to be your little girls. Because absolutely nothing great ever before appears of being India’s little girl.
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