Arun kr. choudhary < Roni2u4lov@rediffmail.com >

MBA in Finance from IMIS, bhubaneswar

Woman, the mother of everyone. In Indian mythology we worship MAA DURGA, but in real life what we do. We try to dominate woman according to our needs. Some time we do bad things with them. Try to hurt them. Try to insult them.

Now in the current time all the boys who say they are true gentle man, I want to ask a question to them……….. what they think about the girls or woman. Do the ready to accept her like boss in office, superior in home. May be the answer is yes, but in the real world we don’t.

If we see crime against woman, it growing day-by-day. And most of the crime is done but the motive of satisfaction. Now in our society, woman are feeling unsecured. Why?

Now a day we are accepting the western culture but our society is ready for that. No. Day by day the number of rape cases are increased in all the metro cities. In the capital of India, woman are more unsecured compare to others. In the very recent we convicted the rape case which shows or sobering. The incidents of rape in Delhi in the last few weeks have sparked off the debate on law reform once again. While serious law reform is needed - and it is also true that the techniques of policing leave much to be desired - we also need to focus on the fact that insufficient attention is paid to the prevention of rape by planners, administrators and law enforcement agencies.

Why is it that they do not address the prevention of rape as a serious issue while preparing and executing the blueprints of Delhi's constantly changing landscape? Instead of moving into more effective mechanisms of legal enforcement and gender-sensitive planning, each reported incident of rape is reduced to a cautionary tale for women. The message is loud and clear: the city is unsafe for women and women need to take precautions.

Each time a slum is demolished and large numbers of people relocated, the issue of the safety of women and girls is neither seriously debated nor considered. When a mall, subway or a multiplex cinema is built, the idea that the urban environment should facilitate rather than impede the safety of women is not given any attention. Even when the Delhi Metro blueprint was being prepared, it did not take into account the increased vulnerabilities for women caused during its execution or by the change in bus routes.

Why is it that the prevention of rape and sexual violence is only about telling women to learn the skills of self-defence, use cell phones, avoid going out in the dark or calling for increased police presence? While the planning of the city by itself will not stop all such incidents of violence, surely planners who take deterrence seriously could contribute significantly in creating women-friendly urban environments? Why have urban planners not built in the prevention of rape into both the development and regulation of the city?

In other words, where there are no effective techniques of surveillance in place or where the urban landscape hinders the means to resist violent attacks, the conditions for rape to occur with impunity are created. Such conditions legitimise the implicit perception (albeit distorted) that women must be raped in public spaces to project the city as masculine and available to all kinds of crude and violent male fantasies.

So, now can we are able to say that we are gentle man and living in a good society. No, never. We need to change our mentality as well as we have to accept him as a part of society. We have to protect them. So time is come and we have to take a step ahead and come together and work for the nation.