*Content Warning: Discussion of rape and sexual assault
Catching up on the events and news from the world, I came across this article on NDTV online (link). It's a story reporting an extremely disturbing event of a 51 year old businesswoman being abused at the hands of a male client. And once you scroll down, in the same article they capture another horrible rape incidence that took place in Kolkata. No pause, no new page just merged like that.
Like how invisible and inconsequent has rape become?? An experience that destroys more than flesh — it fractures identity, erodes one's soul, and leaves one to endure a lifetime of relentless emotional torment...is an event that's just merged like another paragraph. That victim didn't even deserve her own story, her own article. In the digital age, where we see pages and pages filled with senseless gossips from Bollywood and Sports, we couldn't give the second victim her own space? What was it: Just two stories where lead word matched? or Just two events where data said 'women who knew the offender'? How lazy is our journalism? OR How lazy is our conscience?
Where do we even go from here? Only to hell I guess.
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