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ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
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Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 177661" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong><em><span style="font-size: 9px">By Prerna Sodhi, TNN | Dec 29, 2012</span></em></strong></p><p></p><p>Today, I do not write as a reporter. Not as an activist or as a protester. I write today as a girl, a possible future victim and a scared and a hopeless human being. My fear rises from the sheer brutality the 23-year old was put through. My hopelessness rises from my instinct that she may end up being one of the many cases that are stacked up in offices as case files. While I write this, I am aware of the flak I may face from sections of the community. But before anyone starts off with an intelligent discourse, which everyone is entitled to, I have a question for you. Which law will ensure my safety within my very home? Baffled? Don't be.</p><p></p><p>When the case the 23-year old victim plight came to light it was the sheer brutality that hit me the most. To be subjected to such violence is not just inhuman but purely unnatural. Without delving much into it the reporter in me took over, asking me to look at it from a distance and as a story. As I started doing that, and with the outbreak of protests across Delhi the protester in me was switched-on. After a point I wanted nothing but justice for HER. Most of the times when most braved lathis and I had a notepad in my hand, I prayed for a change in roles. But, that wish was to soon change when, while interacting with more people on the job, I learnt that it was unfair of me to demand justice for just one victim where awaiting the same are a thousand unheard voices. With every passing day I learnt the mistakes I was making and correcting them as I went.</p><p></p><p>And it was this understanding that makes me very hopeless about my countrymen. When I look at the thousands protesters on the streets demanding a firm law, more policing and justice for the rape victim, my thoughts go to a place where rape is born, in our very homes. They search the eyes of a million women not demanding for justice but are forced to live day in and day out with their rapists. I look around to see a million women silently living each day the horrific incident that happened to them, not by a stranger but by a loved one. An uncle, a husband maybe a grandfather or a father. But they live in silence because that is what they were taught and the same men were taught to roam around freely, by who we call family.</p><p></p><p>This makes me wonder. Can there ever be justice for them? What is that will undo the permanent scarring they have received. Can anything mend the betrayal of their families? Most importantly, aren't we covering up the hideous acts of the same men, today we say are a threat to us? Aren't we fighting a cause with double standards?</p><p></p><p>Knowing my nation it will be an uproar to talk about this or even tread this side of rape. Since it is this side that exposes how shallow our hypocritical patriarchal families are. But isn't addressing the issue from the root a solution, to weed out the rapist in the male members of our family. Or let it never be born in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Even as the braveheart goes to light a better place, I feel saddened to see that rape is still being treated as something one is born with or takes to over-night. No one till now has introspected and said as mother "we will BELIEVE when a girl comes to us complaining about our teenage sons," "we will not tell our daughters to shut up and live with it.," "we will not tarnish the reputation of the girl and glorify the son." Rather we are screaming about more cops, fall of a government and capital punishment. The first two may happen, but the third one is up for a serious question, are we ready to turn in those people who we call family members? Are we ready to make that change?</p><p></p><p>Are we in true spirit willing to fight a mindset that has so sleathily creeped into us and made it our way of living?</p><p></p><p><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/The-rapes-that-we-dont-talk-about/articleshow/17805523.cms" target="_blank">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/The-rapes-that-we-dont-talk-about/articleshow/17805523.cms</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 177661, member: 1"] [B][I][SIZE=1]By Prerna Sodhi, TNN | Dec 29, 2012[/SIZE][/I][/B] Today, I do not write as a reporter. Not as an activist or as a protester. I write today as a girl, a possible future victim and a scared and a hopeless human being. My fear rises from the sheer brutality the 23-year old was put through. My hopelessness rises from my instinct that she may end up being one of the many cases that are stacked up in offices as case files. While I write this, I am aware of the flak I may face from sections of the community. But before anyone starts off with an intelligent discourse, which everyone is entitled to, I have a question for you. Which law will ensure my safety within my very home? Baffled? Don't be. When the case the 23-year old victim plight came to light it was the sheer brutality that hit me the most. To be subjected to such violence is not just inhuman but purely unnatural. Without delving much into it the reporter in me took over, asking me to look at it from a distance and as a story. As I started doing that, and with the outbreak of protests across Delhi the protester in me was switched-on. After a point I wanted nothing but justice for HER. Most of the times when most braved lathis and I had a notepad in my hand, I prayed for a change in roles. But, that wish was to soon change when, while interacting with more people on the job, I learnt that it was unfair of me to demand justice for just one victim where awaiting the same are a thousand unheard voices. With every passing day I learnt the mistakes I was making and correcting them as I went. And it was this understanding that makes me very hopeless about my countrymen. When I look at the thousands protesters on the streets demanding a firm law, more policing and justice for the rape victim, my thoughts go to a place where rape is born, in our very homes. They search the eyes of a million women not demanding for justice but are forced to live day in and day out with their rapists. I look around to see a million women silently living each day the horrific incident that happened to them, not by a stranger but by a loved one. An uncle, a husband maybe a grandfather or a father. But they live in silence because that is what they were taught and the same men were taught to roam around freely, by who we call family. This makes me wonder. Can there ever be justice for them? What is that will undo the permanent scarring they have received. Can anything mend the betrayal of their families? Most importantly, aren't we covering up the hideous acts of the same men, today we say are a threat to us? Aren't we fighting a cause with double standards? Knowing my nation it will be an uproar to talk about this or even tread this side of rape. Since it is this side that exposes how shallow our hypocritical patriarchal families are. But isn't addressing the issue from the root a solution, to weed out the rapist in the male members of our family. Or let it never be born in the first place. Even as the braveheart goes to light a better place, I feel saddened to see that rape is still being treated as something one is born with or takes to over-night. No one till now has introspected and said as mother "we will BELIEVE when a girl comes to us complaining about our teenage sons," "we will not tell our daughters to shut up and live with it.," "we will not tarnish the reputation of the girl and glorify the son." Rather we are screaming about more cops, fall of a government and capital punishment. The first two may happen, but the third one is up for a serious question, are we ready to turn in those people who we call family members? Are we ready to make that change? Are we in true spirit willing to fight a mindset that has so sleathily creeped into us and made it our way of living? [URL]http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/The-rapes-that-we-dont-talk-about/articleshow/17805523.cms[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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