Wednesday, January 6, 2010

One of the story of one of the wars..



Jagdish is a daughter of Harnam Singh - a freedom fighter of India who braved the bullets at Jallianwala Bagh and came out alive after lying buried under a heap of bodies for 3 days. Her husband was a civil engineer in the Indian Army. During the 1984 riots, she lost her husband, her three brothers and her son was burnt alive before her. She took him in her arms and begged the blood-thirsty mob to stop jeering and give her some water to put in his mouth. No heart melted. Since then, she's shifted to the city of Amritsar.
                                                                        “On November 2, a day after my son and my husband were killed and policemen refused to file even a complaint, a well-wisher informed me that ‘MP Sahib is holding a meeting in nearby Manglapuri’ and that I could take his help to get a police complaint filed. When I reached there, I heard Sajjan Kumar saying "EK BHI SIKH BACHNA NAHI CHAIYE..JO HINDU BHI SIKH KO CHUPAYEGA, USKA BHI GHAR JALA DO. I rushed back without meeting him” , she said. Till this day, she added, she is trying to fathom why the entire Sikh community was attacked when just two sikhs shot the then Indian PM, Indira Gandhi. (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/The-mob-jeered-I-begged-but-no-heart-melted/articleshow/5415055.cms)


Twenty-five years have passed and the people of that fury mob are still free. Her question remains unanswered yet each one of us know the answer in our heart. Thousands of such stories were penned with blood during the anti-sikh riots of 1984. When on earth will humans understand that peace, love, justice, revenge and related things can't be achieved with war?? Nothing except the war is real. The wounds of wars can never be healed for they are absolute. Though she got the compensation, but was it reparable?? Well, call it fate or injustice or just another war story, the fact is that the wife of an Indian soldier and the daughter of an Indian freedom fighter got in reward, her son being murdered in front of  her eyes and the death of her husband and her three brothers. All this done by fellow Indians in the name of the monster called "religion".

Friday, January 1, 2010

Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery


Sunitha Krishnan is galvanizing India’s battle against sexual slavery by uniting government, corporations and NGOs to end human trafficking. Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market.Each year, some two million women and children, many younger than 10 years old, are bought and sold around the globe. Impassioned by the silence surrounding the sex-trafficking epidemic, Sunitha Krishnan co-founded Prajwala, or "eternal flame," a group in Hyderabad that rescues women from brothels and educates their children to prevent second-generation prostitution
"The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me. My biggest challenge while rescuing these people is our civil society, its you and me. Its very fashionable to talk about human trafficking, its very nice for discussions and making documentaries. Its not nice for us to employ them in our homes and factories. Its not nice for our children to study with their children. Thats my biggest challenge. They need your compassion, your empathy and above all they need your acceptance in society. Can you break your culture of silence??. Can u encompass these people and accept them, not as philanthropy, not as charity but as human beings."
Sunitha Krishnan



How many women do we think are prostitutes because this was their dream? How is there "consent" if you are being forced to be a prostitute due to lack of other choices or because you are being held in that position through force? This article is about the worst form of human riots violation.. violent than terrorism, violent than riots and violent than even rape. The third largest organized crime.. a $ 10 billion industry..a modern day slavery.. I'm talking about the heinous crime of sex slavery. I would like to tell you about a story of three children, i came across on internet..

Pranitha's mother was a women in prostitution. She got infected with HIV. During the last stages of AIDS, when she couldn't prostitute, she sold her daughter, a four year old girl to a broker. Later she was found raped by three men. Shaheen, a three year old girl was found on a railway track with her intestines coming out of her body, she too was ill fated and died later on. Reports said that she was used by almost hundred men. Anjali too had a similar story which i feel is understandable as of now. She was 5 when she died. Hundreds and thousands of children, in India and across the world are sold into sexual slavery. but thats not the only purpose for which human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of organ trade, forced labour, camel jockeying etc.. The commercial sexual exploitation of humans has been here since centuries. What's the worst part of this crime is that the victims of such crimes are not accepted as a part of society. Most of them come from poor families who are born victims of the worst form of violence - Poverty, as said by Mahatma Gandhi. If you are an indian, or have been living in india for a while, u might be aware of the attitude of society towards rape victims. The actual rape is only the beginning of the victims' ordeal. In many cases, (mostly in backward regionsof the country, though not always) they become outcasts, with little or no chance at getting a decent life. Many end up becoming sex workers