Unseen Violence
Résumé
Reading the newspapers these days is really daunting. Every day, at least three cases of violence committed against women are reported. Women being raped by their boyfriends, a boy goading his friend to rape his girlfriend, gang bangs, a father raping his daughter, five-to-six year-old baby girls being raped, old women raped by a boy who took shelter at their house for the night, house workers raped by their master or his son. Or else, we hear about dumb or disabled young girls being raped by their neighbours or by relatives, a husband burning his wife’s intimate parts or violently beating her, a father or other family member burning a daughter, in-laws burning their daughter-in-law, a wife killed by her husband because she didn’t bring property from her maiti, etc. All these crimes are ignominious and incredible. While the Occupy Baluwatar movement is forever demanding justice to victims of violence against women, the number of such extremely violent actions is on the rise from one day to the next.