Monday, April 22, 2013

The unsung heroes - The rescuers

I don’t know whether anybody has noticed this but its the men who are both the perpetrators and the rescuers/savers from a crime. In the Delhi rape case, six men chose to turn their  barbaric lust towards a helpless woman and one man chose to fight them. Men belong to a species which happens to have two extremely different types of feelings for the other species- the women. Some of them want to protect us and some of them just want to butcher us. I recently read about an eve-teasing incident which happened in north Kolkata. A man stood up against two other men who were teasing a a woman. This brave young man chose to defend a woman he did not even know and did not get any kind help from her. He was beaten up by the two eve-teasers and it was his friend who rescued him and took him to the police station. The woman refused to go the police station to file a complaint with them. Shouldn't she have accompanied the men to the police station if not for nothing, but for a little gratefulness? In today's age, when sons are turning against fathers and brothers cant stand the sight of each other, a total stranger chose to help her and she did not even recognize the effort.

This is not the only incident in which the rescuers have been given a total cold shoulder by the women they have rescued. Their reasons for turning away might range from not wanting any publicity to the fear of not getting a good marriage proposal. It is needless to say that none of these reasons are greater than a woman's self respect.

If women don’t learn to stand up for themselves, then there is absolutely no hope for any of us. For every woman who gets helped by a common man, there are thousands of others who don’t even get a chance to scream or alert others.This incident reminds me about the very famous Bapi Sen case which too, took place in Kolkata. He was a police offer who came to the rescue of a woman who has being teased by a group of boys in the bustling locality of Park Street. He was beaten up by the ruthless eve-teasers and later died in the hospital.

The woman never came out in public.

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