The Closure
At times, we ourselves engage in harassing others only because we are in a position to do that. It starts with street children kicking a small dog, only to hear its cries. It is the same psychology where we think that our better physical build or owning firearms entitles us to be rude on the road and kill or beat up anyone on the road because the other person does not give us space to overtake, even if he does not have any.
Had read a story decades back, where the male child, not even in his teens, in a male chauvinistic family was asked by a relative if her mother was going to bring another child, whether he would like to have a brother or a sister. The small kid had replied, "Oh, I want only a brother. Girls are useless. They become mothers even if you touch them. I will not be able to play with a girl; I want only a brother."
Society has long suffered from social evils. Let it get back, let some attempt to bring the change. To borrow from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, let us be the change we want.
The characters, the incidents, the conversations, all are fiction. But when I published the first edition, and even before that, some stories were published in the blog, some girls said, "You have very nicely put my story, which I have not shared with anyone. How did you feel my pain, I wonder." And at least one aggressor identified himself, but he did not muster much courage, because otherwise, he would have been branded.
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