{"id":27259,"date":"2018-04-30T01:17:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=27259"},"modified":"2018-04-30T01:17:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T19:47:10","slug":"death-knell-for-the-rape-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/04\/30\/death-knell-for-the-rape-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Death knell for the rape culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nThe death penalty for the child rapist is going to see the light of the day. Hearty thanks to the countless candle marchers. The credit also goes to those conscious media and columnists who all fueled the agitation and energized the activists. Here PM Modi\u2019s dynamism can\u2019t be\u00a0overlooked either, because this ordinance, which was long overdue, has happened now.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s all pray that the\u00a0\u2018fear of death\u2019\u00a0will be an effective deterrent.\u00a0\u00a0Hope, this will \u201cfrighten away\u201d the real vices. In the meanwhile, it would also be very wise on the part of the government\u00a0to look for other preventive measures since we have a lot many \u201cvices\u201d in a lot many avatars and assortments which only encourage the sex related crimes. There are also very dangerous \u201cvices\u201d which, when start to infect one\u2019s thought-process, might give birth to the countless viruses like \u2014\u00a0Trojan horses, Malwares,\u00a0even virulent\u00a0I-love-You. The virus infecting tragedy usually strikes ones very fast who are with weak inborn \u201cantivirus\u201d. This, in fact, turns \u201csane men into perverts\u201d if one objectively analyses. But what is too bizarre is that some of the virus generating vices are let to flourish under the \u201ccover of silence\u201d while some are made to believe through media as \u201cvirtues\u201d and while others as \u201ctalent\u201d \u2014 with a whole lot of modish adornment and poetic adulation. Do you want to acknowledge that ones who cried hard against the despicable rape culture are the premier dealers of these vices? Some are producers too. I cut short here.\u00a0\u00a0Because these days I fear the \u201cthunder of hypocrisy\u201d then the roars of the tiger in a jungle!<br \/>\nYes, remaining complacent by mere hanging the perverts will be thus a downright immaturity. The identifying the \u201ccauses\u201d of those vices that are hurting the society at large are equally important.\u00a0\u00a0Of course, many try to overlook those vices as if they never make a bad impact upon the mindset an individual. Here I\u2019ve an argument \u2014 has the heat of the hearth stopped boiling the water or burn your pack of currency notes to ash? As mentioned above, we can draw a perfect \u201canalogy\u201d between the virus infecting a computer leading to its inevitable \u201cmalfunction\u201d with the people\u2019s behavioral degeneration and wrong indulgences due to the continuous exposure and acceptance of vices.<br \/>\nHowever, it would surely be good if the Government and awakened women organizations boldly pinpoint those forces as well which are culpable for presenting women as no less than commodities, and the dealers of the vices. In this, one is skeptical whether we can turn to the media with hope, or with doubt! Because, very absurdly, the definition of \u201cgood life\u201d and its values have now been willfully distorted and redefined to suit the situation, plans and programs such that they would help further the agendas of that forces which rule the roost.<br \/>\nAnyway, whether one agrees or disagree, disinfecting\/detoxing the \u201cmindset\u201d of the society is the only pathway to the sane society which we are crying for. The healthy thought, healthy attitude, healthy acts can only toll the death knell for any kind of rapes and social ills.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Salil Gewali<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, The death penalty for the child rapist is going to see the light of the day. Hearty thanks to the countless candle marchers. The credit also goes to those conscious media and columnists who all fueled the agitation and energized the activists. Here PM Modi\u2019s dynamism can\u2019t be\u00a0overlooked either, because this ordinance, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}