As you sow, shall you reap

It's very difficult, rather impossible to hear/read about gang-rape of 23-yr old woman in Delhi and not be affected. This is a blow that comes a day after learning about 28 precious lives lost to a mad-man, out of which 20 were innocent, pure, lovely children between ages 5- 10 yrs old. The rape story was so ghastly, it shook the nation. It's so amazing to see that I was reading the exact same words that I felt boiling within myself except for some dangerous morons. So many people recognize that this was heinous of all crimes, they protested. Many must have felt numb like me and took some time to put a status message on facebook or start this blog. I am numbed because of the size of the snake that just showed us its head for a moment. I am not ashamed to say that I am scared as I see the sheer size of this mammoth black snake. The snake has been feeding off our misktakes, mistakes of this society we live in, feeding off the complacency, cowardice, double-standards and all the flaws. We let ths snake get stronger and stronger until this day and if we don't introspect, if we don't act, the snake will only become stronger and darker. I don't think we have forgotten and we dare not forget the past numberous rapes on children, teenage girls in Haryana. Every-time police decides eve-teasing isn't a crime, a parent feels its not necessary to teach children a lesson or two about morality, a passer-by ignores such incident, the snake gets stronger. The question that troubles me most, why this keep on happening. It has to be because somewhere these men think its ok to do this. Isn't it that men in India think its ok to do whatever they want to when they're "angry", "depressed" or whatever. The issue has so many dimensions, its so complex, I don't think it will be or can be solved by hanging or castrating culprits. Respecting women or rather a fellow human being, is it at all on our agenda when we teach children to grow up and earn lots of money. As you sow shall you reap. Mother's blind love for the baby boy who has a right on the woman to serve him. Can we change this thought? Can we for a change teach children that male-female, fair-dark, rich-poor are equal. How difficult is it to recognize bad from good. Probably not that easy as my common sense tells me, because there are people out there who have intelligence to accuse victim. Why don't they apply the same logic on murder and anything else. The guy with the gun is innocent but the one getting killed has done something to provoke. Such false sense of judgement. Its not just men who think so, years and years of conditioning have rendered women believe that too. We all are to be blamed and we all are to fix it. As you sow, shall you reap.