The total lack of safety and security for our women in cities is appalling, rape is a heinous primal act of monstrosity and is far more prevalent than ever before. It is a searing shame on modern society and just by denouncing the crime on grounds of morality, the culpability cannot be explained away, nor can the oft stated term that culprit had a diseased mind excuse the larger issues on hand. For the victims the physical abuse and violence constitute their very being and is not just an abstract matter of transgression of societal morals for which they seek justice.
The victims of rape never get over the trauma and their life becomes a maelstrom with no solace or peace. There are endless debates, discussions with wide TV and press coverage because anything remotely related to sexuality ensures a good story even if it offends sensibilities, people like to skim on the news and move on to more bloodthirsty stories.
Among the thousands of victims of rape the narratives may be long forgotten but the scars on the psyche long remain to haunt them forever. Therapeutic anodyne counseling or talking about it can never heal or help them to” get over “it. Such crimes defy our context of progress and victims remain forever mute and some silently metamorphose into inner strength while some remain tainted for life. We can only try to transpose from the realms of our minds, the corporeality, as our thoughts bleed copiously like tears into our societal injustice that is meted out to them, from the fascist, violent, aesthetic system that elides the actual suffering in their desperate search for validation and reason.
The charade will continue, appeal against the death sentence, the objective investigations of the crime,the lack of eyewitnesses, the relentless media, the endless debates.
Meanwhile Soumya (may her soul RIP) is a silenced body that has become an altar, dead and unspeakable, where justice is being played out. We can hear the echoes of her screams, our nightmares flame with horror, but slowly we will impose upon ourselves a deep amnesia, from which we can sip deeply till the next rape is perpetuated.Vinay-
( A Kerala court awarded the death sentence to a man who pushed a girl out of a train raped and murdered her.His lawyer will appeal against the sentence in High Court)
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