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Dear India, Are the Women of India Really Independent? 

Dear India, why aren’t your daughters safe here, questions The Quint reader.

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Shushmita Das is a teacher and a writer from Cuttack, Odisha. She has written two books – The Foreplay of Providence, which is already in circulation, and soon-to-be-published The Tough Gets Going.

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Dear India,
     
We take pride in our independence but are we really independent? Today, I ask you what have you done for your women? Are we really free and safe? Why are WE often clutched in the jaws of disgrace, wounded by the agony of torment, imprisoned in the darkness of degradation?

What is the curse that nature has so brutally bestowed upon us? What is our fault in being what we are composed to be? The embodiment of power, the epitome of divinity and the manifestation of love that we are – then why are we lowered into the dungeon of obscurity? What is that morbid sin whose penalty is womanhood?

Imprisoned and gasping to evade capture, we yell out in despair. Our hearts throb, tears roll and we are clasped into the jaws death. But none comes to our rescue. Amidst the screaming voices, the thundering misery rings our death knell.

They ogle at us with nasty eyes, their lips part to horrid grins, they gape at us like some aliens, teasing and touching us with their limbs of repulse. They scar us with those marks of humiliation and disgrace. Oh humanity, is this what we deserve?

Our hearts are torn apart by their claws, our limbs are broken by their cruelty, our divine bodies created by his grace is disfigured by the scratches of inhumanity. We succumb to those gaping wounds leaving blood on your hands.

We are equally capable of upholding God's Principle of Equality but why is it then we stand uprooted? Why do we live in agony? Why are we enslaved, coerced, despised, tormented and silenced?

For once look at our wounds and return to your senses. Embrace us as equals because we are the mother, daughter and sister.

Your daughter,

Sushmita Das  
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