The word “goddesses” is very significant in Indian context because in India to a cow, to a river and to a woman, the status of “goddesses” is denoted. However in India you find a cow on the street chewing the plastic begs, you find a river polluted with chemicals and rest of the dirt and last but not the least you find news about woman like today’s Gujarat Samachar (News Paper) says: “In last 10 days 7 females were gang raped in India. Out of 7 gang rapes 4 occurred in Gujarat, 1 in Mumbai, 1 in MP and 1 in Himachal Pradesh.”
The Times of India (2nd July 2004) report suggests that “a woman is raped in the Indian capital every 24 hours and, in an overwhelming majority of cases registered by police in the last six months, the rapists were known to the victims”. Sometimes, it is a brutal rape and murder by a stranger, gang-rape of a girl by her acquaintances or in many cases rape of a girl by her own father or elderly relatives.
9th December 2008 article of Indian Express suggests that 18,359 rape cases were registered in India in the first three quarters of 2008 while in the US 93,934 and in South Africa 54,926 rape cases were registered respectively. India stands third, leaving behind countries like Sri Lanka, Jordan and Argentina, when it comes to rape cases, latest data of the Union Home Ministry suggest.
In recent years, there has been an alarming rise in ratio of rape in India. It is becoming such a common thing in our newspapers that we are apt to not even pay any remarkable attention. But when will we pay attention? When the matter reaches to our doorsteps?
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