Being a girl...

I just read about the Mumbai Gang rape. How horrific!

Is there ever going to be a day when we open a newspaper and there is absolutely nothing about rape/molestation/eve teasing?

I just cannot understand how someone could do something like that. When a guy is ripping the girl’s clothes off, does he go deaf? Does he stop hearing her screams? Does he stop seeing her protests? Does he stop thinking about the consequences, about the repercussions?

How can you do such a thing?

I am a girl living in Delhi for the past nineteen years. I have grown up listening and reading about such incidents. I bet you have too. 


I have been whistled at, leered at, blown kisses at and even been flashed countless number of times. And that’s not it. I have also been groped, eve teased, stalked and what not. If you are a woman reading this you would relate to this. This is every day for us. There is a very high chance that you have gone through at least one of the things mentioned above. There is also a good chance that you have ignored such vile behavior. Only because you had a ‘what if’ in your mind.

‘What if I protest and he throws acid on my face?’

‘What if he does something to me?’

Prevention is better, right? Also, what would people say?

I have had enough. Enough. But what can I actually do? I don’t know. What I do know and I do believe is that they are all the same.

Each and every guy is the same. No matter what they tell you.

It is extremely disappointing. Living in a country where goddesses are worshiped and women treated like this.

Is being a girl my punishment?

Such things often make me wish I’d never been born.