There's sudden spurt of eve teasing at different parts of the state.The tragic incident at Barasat, as it were, has opened the can of worms.In fact, incidents of teasing women are taking place everyday and almost everywhere. They go unnoticed as the victims feel shy of making it public or reporting it to police.In most cases they suffer in silence or have taken this social evil in their stride.Many think it's part of their life or they're destined to be treated this way by their male counter part.These ugly incidents come to light only when the offenders blatantly cross the limit or the victim is courageous enough to register protest against the display of the bestial instinct of man.In work place too women are more often than not subjected to sexual harassment.It's also a form of eve teasing.Pathetically in our male dominated society women often fail to receive the respect they deserve.
Eve teasers are obviously a perverted lot.Many of them are hardened criminals too.They react vehemently when they're challenged.Like the Barasat boy there're instances of being brutally assaulted and killed by the eve teasers when one ventured to protest against their wrong doings.So when a helpless woman fall prey to eve teasers' lewd comments or even an attempt to harass her physically hardly people dare stand by her.In such cases police too normally remain mere on lookers.Eve teasers even didn't spare the police surgeon Bapi Sen and mercilessly beat him to death. But would we allow the nasty practice of eve teasing continue unabated and unopposed?Would we allow some people with mental aberration and perversion hold sway in our society?Definitely not.We would collectively protest against eve teasing and mount pressure on the administration to act properly and take appropriate action against the act of outraging the modesty of women by the eve teasers.
The gruesome murder of a courageous boy daring to challengeb the onmoxious act of the drunken scums, has to some extent shaken us - though not woken us from our self imposed heaven of self centeredness. We as social rational humans abdicated our responsibility as conscious human being and conveniently pass the buck to the police and administration. And take the high moral ground just to satisfy our ego without taking the precious little step. The devaluation of moral values amongst the people at large and the so called eduacated self centered folk has complicated the issue. Female travellers in crowded trains daily experience the ugly expressions of male perversion just an example. All people barring all political or other affiliations must be united to come forward to dfeat this evil. Unfortunately some political forces are set to garner advantage out of this type of sordid happenings. The antisocial elements only wait for the situation conducive to further their nefarious activities. The atmosphere of violence and intolerance embolden the antisocial elements to embark on perpetrating these acts. Only hankering for power can only worsen the situation. Police and administration only woke up after the incidence. It's hoped thing will take abetter turn with awareness amongst the people and concurrent police action.
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