Sunday, 17 August 2014

The Myth of Indian Rapes

Whenever I board a bus or talk to a girl or a guy, they show their serious concern about the rapes in India. Well this is welcome but at the same time it hurts me when they, without checking the facts, declare that in UK or USA rapes are not that frequent as they are in India. I am not a "Big Boss" but at the same time I am quite aware that I am not surrounded by goons and perhaps I may prove to be a very helpful element in making themselves aware of the reality. I had expected myself to write about this but I was not ready, for only statistical knowledge is not the core. This came to my mind when I saw one BBC footage and many international videos making hue and cry over the Rapes in India, particularly many African nations, Britain and USA. There could be many but I saw frequently those.

This article is not a comparison but presentation of few hardcore facts which one needs to understand. The conclusion, this time, is up to you...

The Myth

The convention is that girls are not safe in India and rapes in India are quite frequent as compared to developed nations. The former part I agree but the second part I not only reject it but I also think that it's an aspersion, a process of tarnishing the Indian image in international media while hiding itself cleverly because Indian mass is reactive while others remain inert despite a chaos nearby.

Delhi, is the crime capital of India and reports the highest number of rapes among all the cities. But fact conveys something else. In 2013, almost 40% of the registered cases were filed by parents of the girl in those cases where the alleged rapist was either the boy-friend of the girl with whom the girl had eloped and married or the consensual sex had resulted into pregnancy. In these cases conviction rates are very low. Only those cases are considered where the girl is a minor. In another 25% of the cases, the rapes are filed because there is a "breach of promise". The boy denies to marry the girl after consensual sex leading to the filing of FIR. In these too, the conviction rates are very low because in many cases the girl doesn't know that the man has a wife or even if he is unmarried, it happens with the consensus of the two. In the rest of the cases, irrespective of level/power/money of the person involved, the conviction rate was too high. It could be understood from the fact that overall conviction rate stands at nearly 26%, it means out of the remaining 35%, 26% are convicted (more than 80% of the 35%)

The case is similar over entire India. The highest conviction rate was observed in Manipur in 2011 where there was 100% conviction.  In North, UP had the highest conviction rate of 56.4% followed by Delhi at 41.5%. For more details please refer

The overall conviction rate stood at 26.4%. Now this was about the Indian Scenario and I must say, it's too bad. But what about the developed world which are praised and hailed particularly by the youths because they think that they are far better than their country, and their country is developing and is not hi-fi.

Fatcs reveal something else. As per reported rape, in India per 1 lakh people there are 1.8 rapes where as in USA - 27.3 ; UK - 28.8 ; Sweden - 63.5 ; South Africa - 120. Remember. this 1.8 takes into account the false rape cases too. Also, one has to take into account that the number of reported cases will be less in India as compared to the developed nations. But, even if we magnify the data by 10 times, still it will be less. More than that, the conviction rate in few of these countries is quite disparaging. UK stands with a very feeble conviction rate of as low as 5.7-6.6 %. 

As I said the conclusion is up to you.

Why India is Unsafe

Perhaps this is because the crime against women in India are quite high as compared to other nations such as eve-teasing, passing derogatory comments, DOWRY, marital rapes etc. These things are the major causes which makes India unsafe for the Girls and not Rapes!! Perhaps in 98% of the rape cases girls know the convict very well !!!

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Sunday, 3 August 2014

India's Dream Girl : Israel !!

This article is a result of heated debate between me and my friends, dumb facebook posts (comments in particular) which are specifically based on baseless facts. We all know that Pakistan is our foe more than it is our neighbour. So many youths, who look for a peaceful India, prefer a repressive measures similar to what is being used by Israel over it's neighbouring Palestine. They compare the situation and its consequences on a single platform. They argue that Palestine has been made so weak by the Israel forces that it cannot dare to attack Israel. People in Israel, they sleep well in the night. But India, continues to face the vicious attacks from the side of Pakistan, regular violations of ceasefire from this neighbour and much more. They think and believe that Israel through its bold step has retained its control over the terrorists. 

I, seriously, feel sorry for them because they are so dumb that they don't know that they are comparing between apples and oranges !!!

The Myth

The myth among Indian mass is this that Palestine is a nation that has provoked terrorist activities in Israel, the price for which it has paid very well because Israel is so bold in keeping the rights of its citizens protected. Israel knows very well that what has to be done in order to bring peace and feeling of safety among Israeli mob. But the reality is far away from this. Reality is that Israel-Palestine conflict is the matter of colonizer and colonized and the India-Pakistan conflict is matter of control over a disputed region, and terrorist activities are products of imposition of blind extremism.

The story started in 1917 with Balfour Declaration favouring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and the creation of British Mandate of Palestine. The British proposals dissatisfied both the Arabs and the Jews. The Arabs' opposition developed into the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. The Jewish resistance developed into the Jewish insurgency in Palestine(1944–1947), These ongoing tensions erupted on 30 November 1947 into civil war between the Arab and Jewish populations in response to the UN Partition Plan to divide Palestine into three areas: an Arab state, a Jewish state and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem. 

The tensions escalated and resulted in a war between the Arab States and Israel, with Israel retaining what it was proposed and in addition to that a further control over or annexation of 60% area of what was proposed to Arab State. This conflict is as old as our own Independence.

So.... my dear Blind and Dumb Indian fellowmen/women, in other words, what it means is that Israel colonized the Palestine and till now Palestine is fighting for it's freedom. Hamas is similar to our Congress Extremist wing where they have used weapons to fight for their right (which is wrong, non-violent methods are the best weapon to fight the oppressor). The Congress extremist and other Extremist such as Chndrashekhar Azad were referred as terrorist by the Britishers and I am not calling Hamas as Chandrashekhar Azad, it's just the perspective. And the poor people of Palestine are paying the price for what Hamas is using to liberate Palestine from Israel regime. This may sound very absurd to you but I would be pleased if you start researching, JUST A BIT.

Israel as India's Dream Girl

With the rise of right wing extremism, and many followers adding to its strength, a concept has already developed into, unfortunately, many Indian heads. Many of the Indians think that if India follows the same strategy for Pakistan to end cross border terrorism and put an end to border conflicts, it should go violent, similar to Israel over Palestine. Many, perhaps, advocate this strategy and has made Israel as their dream girl... Mind you!! first of all, the situation is entirely different, one is about border conflict and the other is about colonisation. Second, your claim that same methodology will bring peace stands completely absurd as Israel has been fighting for its annexed state since 1948. This method has not been able to bring peace to Israel itself, since Palestine is colonised state so it has loosed more than Israel, does not mean that Israel stands harmless. Third, Israel has international support whereas Palestine has nothing which is just the reverse of what is in the case of other coloniser and colonised states.

There is no doubt about it that Israel has become a role model for many of the Indians, but I must warn, there will be serious consequences as Pakistan is not a colonised state of India and Indians cannot behave like Israel (Israelis Seen Clapping And Eating Popcorn While Watching Bombs Drop On Gaza) , meanwhile Israeli ministries making statement that hospitals of Gaza should be bombed down as they are saving those who are getting injured during the massacre.   

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