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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1575289156345","data":"A gruesome and saddening incident happened last week that left me sleepless and worried about where we are headed to. A young veterinarian was brutally gang-raped, smothered and her body was burnt alive on a road on the outskirts of Hyderabad, in an incident that is being termed by some media houses as Hyderabad's Nirbhaya case. I will not go into the details of the case as it has been extensively covered in many media outlets but what I do want to talk about is the questions this incident brought up to my mind and I want to raise those questions.<\/p>The accused rapists (three of whom are less than 21 years old) were reportedly intoxicated on alcohol and my question here is, why does a scenario exist where someone younger than the legal drinking age can buy alcohol? Yeah, some are saying that alcohol should be banned but that will open up a whole new can of worms altogether (which I don't want to go into now) but the main question is, why do underage people have access to alcohol? Why hasn't the license of the alcohol shop where these people acquired it, been cancelled after this?<\/p>Another question I want to raise is to the people who are reacting on this issue on social media. While the ones who are giving knee-jerk reactions and conducting candle-light vigils are not doing anything apart from just doing that, the biggest concern here is about the ones who are saying that the girl deserves to be raped or the rape isn't wrong or whichever form of victim blaming that many in our country are known for doing. Why isn't there a sensitisation among rural youth, especially blue-collar workers (who, coincidentally, were the section of society that perpetrated the 2012 Delhi rape case)?<\/p>There are also a section of people who are saying it is because there was a muslim guy among the accused that it happened. Why is there an unnecessary selective rage that doesn't make any sense? And to all the ones who are reacting on social media and are being arm-chair-activists, I would like to ask if they did anything to sensitise the men around them?<\/p>When I talk about sensitisation, I believe it is the most crucial thing that needs to be done apart from changing the law to give out quick justice. Punishment already exists but it stopped being a deterrent, if the increase in the number of rape cases is anything to go by. The government should probably conduct awareness and sensitisation sessions in rural areas and students can do their part by volunteering to conduct such sessions in villages near colleges at the very least.<\/p>Colleges on their part, can and should conduct gender sensitisation sessions for students right in the first year itself.<\/p>As the Gandhian quote goes, be the change that you want to see in the world and let's all work towards making this a better, safer place for women. <\/p> <\/p>"}]

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