Women against women
Why is it that every sordid story about abuse of women’s rights has some other woman behind it somewhere in the background actively participating in violation of a fellow woman’s rights? Take the recent case of Mira Road where a tantric – so called medicine man – convinced a man to rape his daughter for 9 years and he too participated in the violation of the girl from the age of 12! In this case promises were made that by so doing the man will gain spiritually and financially. In this journey his wife also participated and encouraged him to violate their daughter. Not only did she let the father rape the child but also the tantric – how can a mother be so hard hearted as to allow such a fate to fall on her daughter? It completely baffles me as to why this had to happen at all. Do people not have the courage or the heart to decipher between right and wrong – specially when it comes to their own! The same fate was to befall the younger daughter, that is when the elder one took courage in...