The author has put forward the draconian atrocities ushered on the INDIAN WOMEN. In this article we can find the disappointing views of all the political parties regarding the security of the Indian Women. This article really let our thinking cap on and to think, we are really developing in the path of the reforms suggested by our respected Prime Minister or in terms of so called GDP Growth or in 2G and COALGATE SCAM or in the safety and security of our women.

1. Why India is the worst country for women
The author is a writer based in Chennai.
Nandini Krishnan
When a poll declared that India was the world’s worst country to be a woman, with Saudi Arabia
following, the Western world was bewildered; our newspapers screamed out the headline;
politicians were dismissive; men were puzzled. But I doubt any woman who’s grown up in this
sex-starved nation of perverts was surprised.
When you’re a woman growing up in this country, whatever place you occupy on the socio-
economic scale, and whichever city you live in, chances are that you’ve been groped, molested
or worse, at least once in your life. Usually, the count is far higher. I know women who’ve had
their clothes cut, who’ve been urinated on, and who’ve been kissed, in crowded buses. And I
don’t know any woman who hasn’t been groped.
You quickly make your own safety rules. If you have to take a bus, you board early at the depot,
and learn not to get up for old, disabled or pregnant women. If you’re ogled, you pretend to be on
the phone. If you have to head out late, you make sure you have a man – and, ideally, pepper
spray – with you. If you’re flashed, you look bored, avert your eyes, and walk away. If you’re
followed, you race to a police station and park outside till your stalker leaves.
You read about rape so often that you learn not to be affected by it, unless it happens to you. And
you make sure it won’t happen to you by being safe. But then, you realize suddenly that you’re
never safe. And that in the twenty-first century, our politicians will blame rape on increased
interaction between men and women, on chow mein, on late marriage, and on a hyperactive
media that reports rape their solutions.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee believes parents should reprimand people who
hold hands, and the press should shut up about rape, in the interest of “positive journalism”.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala believes that women should be married by
16 – apparently, providing men with younger virgins will lessen their appetite for more.
And khap panchayat leader Jitender Chhattar believes “light and nutritious food” will channel
men towards less tamasic pursuits.
A few months ago, Assamese channel News Live broadcast the molestation of a Guwahati
resident by a gang, clearly egged on by a cameraman who later claimed he was trying to identify
the men involved. The editor, who has since resigned, insinuated that the girl may have been a
prostitute, since bars are apparently frequented by prostitutes. Whether he believes prostitutes
should be molested with impunity is, of course, another issue.
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2. Why India is the worst country for women
The author is a writer based in Chennai.
Nandini Krishnan
In this country, rape has become a page-filler. And yet, rapists are rarely convicted. Even when
convicted, they rarely spend more than a year or two in jail. A case in point is Sohanlal Bhartha
Walmiki, who walked free after serving two concurrent seven-year sentences for assault and
robbery – not for rape, molestation or unnatural sexual offence – despite strangling, sodomising
and brutalizing nurse Aruna Shanbaug into a vegetative state.
Dr Sunitha Krishnan, co-founder of the NGO Prajwala, has often spoken about the prejudice and
contempt victims of rape and trafficking face. A victim of rape herself, she spoke at a TED
conference three years ago about her experience, telling the audience that what traumatized her
more than the gang-rape was the stigmatization she faced from society and from her own family.
But despite campaigns and demonstrations, despite education and economic progress, we remain
the most unsafe country in the world for women. Hell, even toddlers aren’t safe. Days ago, a 13-
month old child was raped by a man in his 20s, and a 2-year-old was molested by a man in his
60s, in Solapur, incidentally the hometown of Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
Not even our campuses are safe. A student of the National Law in Bangalore was raped in the
adjoining campus of Bangalore University. All news reports about the incident made it a point to
mention that she was out late at night with a man she had met online (who, incidentally, was also
beaten up by the men who raped her).
On Tuesday, a man accused of raping an 8-year-old child at the Kalakshetra campus in Madras
was let off by a court, which reportedly said recording a statement before a magistrate and
picking out the suspect in an identification parade didn’t make for enough documentary evidence
to convict the man.
For years, filmmakers from Madras and Bombay churned out movies where saintly heroines
would insist on marrying their rapists, and converting them into honourable men – rather than
inflicting their sullied selves on those deserving of better.
It wouldn’t surprise me anymore if a khap panchayat that believes chow mein leads to sexual
crime were to reason that the said crime can be wiped off by making the victim marry the rapist.
Maybe the only deterrent to rape would be to castrate the rapist without anaesthesia, and then
sodomise him with a hot iron rod. But since that won’t ever happen, I suppose we must reassure
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3. Why India is the worst country for women
The author is a writer based in Chennai.
Nandini Krishnan
ourselves that rapists will be chastened by weaving baskets in jail for a year or two, before they
set out again into a world filled with prospective victims.
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