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Continuing with my thoughts of previous conversation on rape, I feel anxious to understand how and why have we arrived to this fatal destination. I realized this clearly only yesterday. Being a mother to a nearly four-year-old boy, I am much more alert and feel holding a high responsibility towards society. I emphasize slightly more on the aspect of raising a more responsible masculine gender who could support and liberate his female counterparts from the prevalent fear of the opposite sex. By the way, wishing everyone a very happy mother’s day ! And of course, not ignoring the men who made it possible! Congratulations to them as well. On this day, and being a Sunday, I took my son to attend a colouring workshop which he enjoyed a lot. Then, obviously, we had to buy him a new toy – we being in a toy shop for the workshop! This time, he had a very different demand of toy – no car, no crayons, no ball, no bubble gun, BUT a doll. Yes! He demanded to have a doll ...

It has been almost a month now, that every day when I switch to a news channel on TV, I get updated on a new rape case – and most likely with a minor. Media keeps sharing the blurred images / videos / CCTV footages and talking about various aspects of rape – victim, culprits, authority, laws, society, reforms, etc. etc. and I change the channel. Yes! I change the channel as I am too exhausted to witness the after effects of watching such incidents and the way we are tackling it – as a society. Hence, wanted to pen down here. We, as a society is undoubtedly evolving – to good. Yes! You are not mistaken while reading, nor it is a typo, I actually said “good”. I am referring to the era when a girl was restricted by her own parents, if a neighbour's girl got raped. She was advised to skip school, stay composed and not smile all the time, recheck on her wardrobe, focus more on studies, skip spending time outside home, coming back home before sunset, etc. etc. Even then, if the...