CW: SA, murder, terrible shit

Don’t know if you folks are aware but the conditions around the lack of safety for women in India is getting a lot of attention lately because a rape-murder case has generated major outcry because of the sheer brutality.

Following this aforementioned case, the media has begun to report more on cases of sexual violence against women and minor girls.

It is a very depressing situation because women are incredibly unsafe in the country but no one has any answers to fix this. Protests and activism try to find solutions within the existing political and economic framework which simply do not exist. The result is that this righteous anger materialises into screaming into the void until the energy dissipates. Some time passes and another terrible case happens again, after which the cycle repeats. In fact, there was a similar outcry against another horrific case some years ago the details of which are too tragic for me to repeat.

The ruling party, BJP, is well known for harboring and protecting rapists. This aforementioned high profile case, like the others of its kind, are merely being used by opportunistic poltical parties to sling shit at each other rather than trying to find a solution, not that it surprises me even a little bit. This current case for example has turned into a boxing match between BJP and TMC (Trinamool Congrees, West Bengal’s fascist ruling party) slandering (using this term very liberally) each other.

Times like serve as a sad reminder for me that I see no way out of the mire of reaction the country is bogged down in thanks to the political system that was “handed over” to us from the British. And I say this as an optimistic person.

Nevertheless I respect those who struggle.