There is nothing wrong with worshiping Maa Durga, but the problem is that if even males of our society worship Maa Durga, a woman indeed, then why can’t they respect every woman like they respect Maa Durga? One point is certain that those who worship Maa Durga know the vigor of women, but what I don’t understand is that despite this, why do males and even some females assume women fragile?
Several days back, I was reading a post by a girl. She attacked someone who wrote the quote, “Teach your daughter how to slap in public and break a leg, Gol roti can wait.” Her point was that how would she survive without learning the Gol roti, and What I asked her was that do everyone keep their body and soul together by self-made roti? I agree that everything is mattering, but look around, and it is clear that the slap is the need of the hour. A woman goes through all this: molestation, harassment at the workplace, insults in public places, and all the heinous crimes which men do to satisfy their sexual appetite. Durga Maa will not appreciate your Diya that you light in front of her idol because she knows your other face, a face that is monstrous and dangerous to other women. Why bother Maa Durga when most of the rapists would not let all this happen indeed to their mothers and sisters. Then why do they do this to other women? They are also humans, right. In the most recent rape case, the Hathras Case, what was the mistake of the girl, that she went out in the dark and even with her mother, are the nights only accessible to men? Will women always have to take the aid of daylight to go out? Should the females remain ensnared in the four walls of their homes or rather the “Laxman Rekha” that men have drawn outside their homes? I want to ask only one question to all these molesters and rapists; how can you slumber at nights after hearing the shrieks, and pleadings, and wailings of a woman? The woman who did nothing wrong to you, whose only crime was to take birth as a girl. Did you not feel distressed for her even for a moment? Did you think of her parents?
I won’t say a word against our politicians and governments, because they are good for nothing, any expectation from them is our folly, they can only fight for shallow bills in the parliament. But I expect humanness from every human being. Is it too much to ask? Weren’t we created humans because we meant to be humane towards our fellow species? I know that preaching all this in a piece of writing is easy, but perhaps this effort can help change at least one person’s mindset!
While writing this, I came across on google that Maa Durga is worshiped for her strengths of battling vices and demonic forces that imperil harmony, prosperity, and dharma, the power of good over evil, so what are all these sinful souls waiting for- that every woman transforms herself into Maa Durga and then slaughter the evil? My word to these rapists is that the day you will step into the shoes of this woman, whom you raped so brutally, you would discern that you didn’t deserve to take birth from the immaculate womb of a woman. I’ve heard certain people asserting that “if this had occurred to your heiress, how would you respond?” I strive to ask about those who had raped their sisters, their wives, their daughters. How will we make them realize that what they did is something beyond all the sins?
I do not feel the need to give examples of the rapes that shuddered the cores of people even by hearkening it. Did that rapist mutated into a beast while doing all this, or was he never a human? Delhi Rape case, Kathua Rape Case, Hathras Rape, and murder case, rape of a nine months old baby girl, rape of a 65 years old lady, and the list goes on and on- no end to it.
No instructions, no grievances, only questions, myriad questions, the questions which nobody can answer but can barely sigh on the pain these questions wreak on the hearts of people.
Written By Onish
