Evade the obtrude

I sang all the way to the office. The drive was pretty good even though I had expected a lot of traffic. There’s a new face in the office. He looks a bit confused though. We need more female employees in here, for there's no equilibrium here. Same inflated egos everyday, same boss who calls himself an 'entrepreneur' and scratches his butt in public, same air-conditioned prison with no signs of life inside. This place needs women.

I just picked up the newspaper. The headline in Delhi Times, 5^th July: Can Marriage be a punishment for rape? Reminds me of the endless heated arguments with my friends and acquaintances during graduation days. Times group likes to ask rhetorical questions in its newspaper. It’s like killing someone who’s already dead. I remember how my classmates refused to talk to me because of my pro-women stance on a few occasions.

What are we trying to implement here? The problem or the solution? Isn’t capital punishment a way out of a demented and worthless life of a deranged and diseased mind that remains unmoved by the cries and tears of the one who’s being ruined?

And then I get to hear the two-wrongs-don’t-make-a-right theory by our pseudo altruists. Is it really that simple? What’s the newspaper got for us today? A 24 year old woman with years of hard work, schooling, entrance exams, friends, joys, sorrows, graduation, mushy moments, relatives, commitments, fallouts, intelligence, opinions, achievements, love, family, growing up, laughter beaten down by iron rods and dumped on the road because a few men couldn’t handle alcohol and a porn movie!

In all walks of sanity, ordering a rape victim to marry the convict is a punishment for the victim and not for the convict. It’s a way of telling the victim that you cannot get away with rape alone, there’s more humiliation and pain left for you.

There has to be punishment for those who wrote such a law and passed it. It’s time I step away from this computer before I lose it and let profanity flow.