All of us have one monster in us, some of us try to hide it behind the angel we carry within our self and some of them flaunt their inner devil with utmost proud.
There are people who try to portrait themselves as the only good soul living in the society without a slight inch of idea of how they actually look like. Our society has divided females and males, as per the physical power without any protocol.
As a journalist I have covered stories, where I was shocked how monstrous people can be to show their superior being.
Mother’s plea:
I came across Anjali Kochchar, 32, was tortured physically and mentally by her mother-in-law. The torture was not only for dowry but for a baby boy. Anjali’s 15-month-old daughter was abducted by her husband and was burnt with cigarette butts.
In this story the mother-in-law showed her monstrous side to dominate Anjali and her daughter.
Monster Mother:
For my master project, I went to an extreme village in Karnataka and came across a very strange tradition ‘Devdasi’, where young girls and women were disowned by their parents and were offered to the Goddess. Devdasis used to worship and work in the temples during the day and turn to prostitutes at night.
I met a Devdasi, Kalpana, 22, long stretch of vermilion and turmeric lines were spread on her forehead. With dense and depth in her eyes, she describes her life, which was sacrificed by her parent’s wish for a boy. And since then she tried to run away from that dungeon but failed and ultimately landed into the ugly field of Prostitution.
She lives with her fellow Devdasis who are girls of her age and some older to her.
Here a mother’s monstrous soul and crave for her boy, she threw the naive angel soul to this ugly field.
Cursed Childhood:
I was on my way to Odisha, in the train two small children of age around, nine to 12 came wearing rugged clothes and started singing and did a couple of stunts which were good enough to entertain us. Then they started asking for money, I offered a packet of chocolates and the girl was extremely happy that she did not even bother to take the money. Her brother slapped her, snatched the chocolate packet and asked her to collect the money and they moved on to the other bogie.
Here poverty has squeezed out the monster of the little brother and thrashed on her little soul.
Unknown fear:
I was talking to a friend of mine, when she was on her way to Delhi. She was among the last few passengers left in the bogie as the train was 4 hrs from the final destination, Delhi. They were constantly crossing her and were checking out her stuffs. She noticed that those girls were talking to each other in sign language. She was scared of them thinking of them as thieves. She could not sleep the whole night and had cuddled her purse close to her heart.
Here just the feeling of insecurity turned her soul weak enough to look at those little girls as monster. But were they monsters! Might be, but who turned them?
Snatch and spoil stories:
There are a number of acid attack cases, where the guys get their big fat ego hurt and think if they throw acid on girls and spoil their faces, they have taken revenge of their life. These days the new trend of taking revenge is raping girls. Every time they do something like this they let the monster in them get triumph over the angel souls.
The greatest monster of all appears when the society tries to push the victim on the convict side and pull the convict to victim side, making their own superficial statements. The moral police take no time in throwing the blame to western culture or women for the misery or fateful incident.
What are we turning day by day? Monster, it is kind of a competition where you commit the heinous crime and show your monstrous side, you earn yourself the merit point of going viral on television, internet and in other media platforms. No matter how much we debate, we show our capabilities, for a male chauvinist society there is no place for women. If we ask for equal rights, equal opportunities and equal respect for both the genders, are we asking too much?