Ritika Ruminates

Image Source- VideoHive Recently,  UP Women Commission member have stated that girls using phone have lead to rapes . What more shocking is that this statement comes from a woman herself. Along with blaming girls for using phones, she has even blamed 'carelessness' of mothers for increase in rape cases. Question that arises is- aren't even babies to school girls to old age women who don't use phones, have been victims of rape? What the phones have to do with rapes? Yes, online sexual harrassments (in forms of morphed pics, sending non consenual pics of genitals, etc) do happen due to phone and social media. But if both boys and girls are taught to be respectful of others and their consent and be precautions on social media, then it would be reduced a lot.  About her eloping statement, not everyone elopes. And some do due to controlling and toxic parents who refuses to accept their relationship due to societal standards, caste and religious differences. Checking kid'...

India is obsessed with babies (1.3 billion population totally proves it). You would find random people giving married couple unasked advice to have babies, even if the couple is just 1 month old. From the vegetable vendor to the security guard to distant relatives & judgemental neighbours who have no life of their own, whose adult kids are themselves struggling with parenting their newborns (or their adult kids have moved out due to their frustration with parents pestering about having kids). But whats the obsession with asking (or pressurizing, manipulating etc) others to have babies? Why are women treated as a baby making machines? What's with the unasked advice to have kids? If anyone even dares to ask the person back why they need to have a kid (cause you can't talk back to elders, credit to Indian 'sanskaar'), there would be answers, some even comical. "They will look after you when you will get old" . Umm, what's the guarantee they would? Childre...