Dangers of Walking....especially if you are a woman

One more chain snatching incident. It looks like its becoming difficult for women to move around from one place to another without the danger of being soft target for snatching chain. I remember one of aunt's friend who lost her confidence to travel alone after being a victim and soon moved to he native place, though she was born and brought up in Mumbai, a place where she thought she could move around safely.

I won' be surprised if the yesterday's victim feels insecure too. But nothing much can be done against the perpetrators of these crime for the only reason by the time the victim recovers from the shock ...they have fled away on their pillions. It's very difficult for a woman to identify them later.

If you feel that the targets are women who flaunt their jewellery you are wrong. Even a simple "mangalsootra" is not spared. And given its religious and cultural significance in India a married woman would never ever be without it. Moving around without an "mangalsootra" is considered inauspicious for a married woman. And this particular ornament is mostly of the made out gold may be worth its weight ...but for the Indian woman its much more than that....perhaps priceless. A duplicate or a fake "mangalsootra" may never give them that feeling.

And that's precisely why the pillion riding looters target women. Unfortunately they too have grown up as a part of this culture and value systems but are blinded by easy money, the kick they get out it.

And as usual is the case the most of the times the cops too do little (or can do little...its debatable) and woman to continue suffer.

I personally feel such small petty little things have much more impact on the lives of not only just woman but common man in general (it happened to this lady but whole village is grieving for her)...and the so called representatives of civil society are busy fighting for issues which have little impact or significance on the common man.

Time to address these issues as well for its become dangerous to walk alone.

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