{"id":165,"date":"2018-04-23T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/what-is-fault-of-raped-gir\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T06:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T00:53:38","slug":"what-is-fault-of-raped-gir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/what-is-fault-of-raped-gir\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS THE FAULT OF A RAPED GIRL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<br \/>Times of India of 22.4.2018 had a news-item under the caption`Rapists should cover faces ,not us: Survivors, on the front page.In the same,it reported about a raging debate among the girls &amp; women of a NGO based in Dehradun.&amp; the debate is on`Should news reports take the Jammu girls name &amp; show her face,if her parents agree to it?For that matter,should rape-survivors with the permission of the guardians,if they are minors-come out in the open with their stories.No name changed,no face blurred?<\/p>\n<p>Almost all the girls\/women,present were unanimous in their opinion`Why should we be asked to hide our identities when we have not committed any crime?shouldn`t those who are committing rapes be the ones covering their faces?<\/p>\n<p>I feel, this new thinking\/lines of argument needs strong support from all sections of the society including guardians &amp; the parents of the hapless girls\/women?<\/p>\n<p>What is their fault? Their fault to my mind,is, that they are born in a society\/system which does not have enough safe guards to protect the honour of their daughters\/sisters et al.It keeps on debating &amp; debating what to do,what laws to have &amp; so on &amp; so on.Infact, the FACES of the rapists need to be BLACKENED &amp; shown around in their localities\/cities\/media\/TV channels etc. Besides, strict punishments by fast-track courts. Let this be the scourge for RAPES. It will then, to my mind, tend to end in our society.<\/p>\n<p>Let the matter be debated in schools,colleges,IITs,IIMS ,by NGOs &amp; various fora to create awareness about the misdeeds of the RAPISTs.<\/p>\n<p>Hapless girls are not to walk\/live in shame.It is the rapists &amp; their parents who need to be accountable to the society\/system<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nSuitable modification in the thinking of the society &amp; laws are urgently needed<\/p>\n<p><b>Vijay K. Saluja<\/b>Director<br \/>Giraffe Heroes India <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giraffe.org\/global\/india\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.giraffe.org\/global\/india<\/a><br \/>Past President &#8211; IIT Delhi Alumni Association<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times of India of 22.4.2018 had a news-item under the caption`Rapists should cover faces ,not us: Survivors, on the front page.In the same,it reported about a raging debate among the girls &amp; women of a NGO based in Dehradun.&amp; the debate is on`Should news reports take the Jammu girls name &amp; show her face,if her parents agree to it?For that matter,should rape-survivors with the permission of the guardians,if they are minors-come out in the open with their stories.No name changed,no face blurred? Almost all the girls\/women,present were unanimous in their opinion`Why should we be asked to hide our identities when <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,1],"tags":[1879,67,16],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-better-india","category-update","tag-update","tag-views","tag-vijay-k-saluja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52611,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/52611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}