Rukmini Sen : Silence like a RAPE grows!!! She is dead. But we have been dead for so long. Dead and compliant with all silences. We are silent in our homes, We don’t orient our brothers about our feelings, We don’t tell our sisters that voicing indignation is a must, we don’t stand by our mothers when they fight with our fathers for basic self respect, we don’t tell our fathers to back off when they must… we let our romantic and marital partners violate us with their regressive and sometimes their so called ‘progressive’ discourses..
we don’t stand by our colleagues when they complain and fight lone battles in work place. We don’t stand by our friends when they refuse to marry their parents’ choice. We remain silent when people of small towns, villages get raped and killed. We as broadcasters don’t want to discuss ‘poor’ rapes. We were silent when mother and daughter of a dalit family were raped, tortured and killed in Khairlanji! When the sons were sexually violated and killed. We remain silent when our forces rape our tribal sisters!! The state has silenced all struggles in CG for long by calling everything Naxal and now all of you who walked at India gate are being called the same!! And today Delhi has been treated as South Chattisgarh, North East and Kashmir! Silenced!
टीवी टुडे ग्रुप के साथ वरिष्ठ पद पर कार्य कर चुकीं Rukmini Sen रुक्मिनी सेन के फेसबुक वॉल से साभार.
