9 YEARS WAITING FOR A VINDICATION... KILLED BECAUSE OF HER FAITH... ISHRAT JAHAN RAZA A YOUNG GIRL OF 19

It takes 9 years for the country to get to know that an innocent 19 year old girl was not a terrorist and did not intend to kill Narender Modi... 

She was killed and accused of being a terrorist because her name was 'Ishrat Jahan Raza'; because she called the Almighty 'Allah' and because she was in Gujrat with other 'suspected' terrorist... 

Proven repeatedly that the encounter was fake and also the plot to kill the king was made up by the IB head already accused for another fake encounter...

Do we the 'Sovereign, Democratic, Republic' of India have an answer to give to this little girl's family as to why we chose to take away a bread earner and young life without any proof! Can we look into their eyes and apologies for putting them through the trauma they have lived with for the last 9 years...

Is there a medicine that the great Mr. Modi and the wonderful BJP have to heal the wounds of this poor family???

Did anyone take out a minute without the intention of sensationalism to try and get to know what the aspirations of this 19 years old girl were... what her fears were and what her hope were. 

We all sat as mute spectators as the police and politicians jumped up and down to claim victory of ridding the country of another Islamic Militant... when all it was, was a girl not even out of her teens...

Does our collective consciousness allow us to sit and watch many more such encounters or is it time we take a stand!!!

HOW NOT TO SAVE A LIFE

“She learnt a long time back that as hard as you might try and fit in, if you are not meant to, you never will.

How will you fit into a place where you don’t understand the people? Fitting into a world that does not understand simple acts of kindness or nicety and only view it as an attempt to impress or gain some extra favours.

She often sat and wondered if the world was really that stupid or was it just so self absorbed that if you did not confirm t its standard of thinking or were different there was no place for you.

She never really fit in anywhere. She never belonged here. She was forever lonely, more often than not misunderstood and used. No one remembered her in moments of joy but only in moments of sadness as the one shoulder always there.

Probably the thing that was killing Zoya all along more was not the cigarettes, the coffee or the excessive alcohol, but the immense feeling of loneliness and not being understood… Having no one who would take out a minute to look into her eyes and see the longing to be wanted for more than the shoulder for support.

Old and new friendships, family, and colleagues - no one knew her. All they knew about her was she was always there but no one ever knew how to be there for her. Somehow they never really understood what she needed, more often than not a simple hug.

Flipping through the pages of her life, I realize that the rust of loneliness was slowly damaging the core of her soul and soon it had hollowed her existence and eventually killed her over the 30 odd years of her life.

That void consumed her and saddens me more now when I go one further thru the pages of Zoya’s life.

I wish I had known her more while she was alive; I might have been able to help her know that while it was alright to be alone sometimes, there were some who did want to understand her more.

But I never mustered the courage and may be I never actually understood her while she was alive. After all too am a part of this cruel unkind world!

May be if I had reached out a little earlier, I might have saved a life…”

CAN WE MAKE A CHANGE OR NOT????

Six months back, India and Delhi especially erupted into mass protest because of young girl who was called 'Nirbhaya'... Six months down the line all of us are sitting silently even though every day we here not only of women, but little girls being brutalized, raped and damaged...

How can we all sit silent? Not only do I ask everyone else, I ask myself too? How can we all sit silent... May be it is time we all fight one battle a day? One protest a day?

2014 is not far away and may be it is time we force those in power to do something more!

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He walked out of that lawyers office and the weather had changed... The day the sky cried silent soft tears. Silent drops of rain, the overcast skies wept, for she had left!

She left behind the world she so loved, and yet it was the world that had never treated her right.

She left behind the world that never understood her childlike innocence, her belief and faith in humanity, or her stupidity to always see the beauty and decency in people!

The world would soon forget her for good! Yet there would remain a few like me who would cry like this overcast sky, whenever we think of her while we miss her!

Tears shall fall out of our eyes, silently weeping like the sky!

Announcing Aurat Bandh 26th December 2012

Announcing Aurat Bandh

26th December 2012

From 1947 to 2012, India has seen many a Bharat Bandh, Gujjar Bandh, Maharashtra Bandh etc. etc and we’ve all seen innumerable times the mechanics of these bandhs and how they do NOT function.

A woman gets gang raped in a moving bus and the country stands spineless. What do we as women get to hear – “Don’t step out of the house, don’t go anywhere unaccompanied, don’t wear revealing clothes – in short they would prefer if we would stop living.”

Since the government of this nation fails us yet again, it is now time to take matters into our own hands.

45% of our Corporate Workforce are women. If we come together and boycott all work for day, at home or in the office - we can bring the country to a standstill and force society to finally recognize our rights and appreciate us.

It's time we stand up for our rights and security.

This call goes out to ALL the women in the nation for an AURAT BANDH to pledge our solidarity to the innumerable women being victimized simply for being women.

Let us not do any work for one day and let's see how the society manages to function. 

Also one would like to clarify that this isn’t about women staying at home to be safe. On the contrary, it is about how much women contribute economically and sociologically to a society.

The aim is for men to see the least amount of women on the streets, in offices and all other familiar places not doing the things they are used too.

This is all about the power women have in any given social economical situation.

Aurat Bandh is about telling one and all that while we cannot function without a safe environment, repeatedly being victimized for being women; even an economy and society cannot function without our contribution.

Not Bharat Bandh but an Aurat Bandh on December 26, 2012.

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