Living in hope
Back to writing after a really long time. Wrote this article for Amma's school magazine. Every morning the newspaper stares at me, showing a scary picture of the world we live in today. Be it dirty politics, corruption or violence against a human being in some form or the other. And the act of violence that hurts me the most is the crime of sexual assault of a person. When the act of expressing love becomes that of hatred, domination or revenge, it takes the most horrendous form of this crime against a human. And such incidents happen to women the most. I am sure all of us have been forced to sit back and think seriously about this crime these days due to the ‘Nirbhaya’ case. All of us have some opinion or the other about this. However, what matters is how many of us have decided to act as a responsible citizen who would raise an alarm or help the victim as soon as he comes across such an incident. It is matter of great shame that all of us lead a hypocrite’s life. We do...