Monday, September 23, 2013

Prerequisite of person working as Human Rights Activists


My hypothesis is and will remain: “Everyone working in Human Rights sector is and would be (at least) a good human being.[1]

I have build my assumptions around this with a very positive frame of mind, that most humans are nurtured by their parents to grow up as good human being, especially when dealing with others- its notations are – do not hurt anyone by thought, word and/or action. These are the basic values all good parents teach their children apart from giving ample amount of love.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Genealogy of RAPE - Looking into the causes and cures of violent rapes



In India is there any commonality between pisspitting[i] and molestation/rape? Strangely ‘YES’; more than ninety percent of both these ‘cheap’ acts are done by boys/men. Is it logical to say that in India where men are spitting less, incidence of rapes are less? It may not be so worthwhile a hypothesis to investigate. The argumentative correlation I am trying to draw looks too far-fetched but it highlights the basic flaw in upbringing of boys growing into men in Indian society. Are we telling the boys/men – ‘Do NOT spit on road’, and ‘Do NOT touch a girl inappropriately without her consent’. The parents, teachers, elders, leaders and societal role models have failed on both fronts in teaching basic good human traits and civic sense to a large section of Indian men, since their young age and more so in their youth.

Why do men rape? Simply said – for men - it is to deal with one’s own acquired nature. The common conclusions are that it could be expression of individual power over other human being, act of physical violence as a gratifying source to vent out piped-in anger (Of what?).