Heya!! I do not have much friends on Twitter (it looks I’m
not a Twitter attraction yet :D) so I chose FB and blog as my tool to pen down
my thoughts. Well, jokes apart, I’ll not be able to limit my words to 140
characters as well.
Now that I have ample time at hand, as I have nowhere to go,
I am on a Eat, Sleep, Work, Binge Watching on a repeat mode. So after a long
delay, I finally saw Chappak.. I am no big critic, but as an ardent Movie Fan,
I felt acting and cinematography could have been better to support the powerful
story. Well, this is not a movie review, so instead of deviating from the
topic, I wanted to talk about the issue that it portrayed.
Agree – we knew about this incident and this problem way
back. People with high affinity for current affairs would rightly claim that
Acid Attacks and weak laws to punish Acid Attackers are true perils of our
society. We hear and read about the atrocities of heinous crimes like Rape,
Acid Attack, empathize with victims, utter foul words for the people responsible
for these crimes, do some protests and candle march, thank God that we and our
loved ones are safe and then move on with our lives! That’s the beauty of life
– it keeps us tirelessly busy to allow us to forget the gruesome details. Even
criminals find loop holes in the Judiciary system and either escape punishment
or serve a minimum sentence while moving on in their life. It is the victims/survivor’s
life that takes a toll and never gets back to what it was or what it could have
been.
There are numerous debates and arguments in favor or against
the period or type of legal punishments for crimes and I do not want to start
another one again. I feel nothing could justify the pain that a person suffers
from a crime distorting their physical/mental health. I kind of liked Vikrant Massey’s
dialogue from the movie – “Acid pahle dimag m ghulta hai, tabhi to haath m aata
hai”(Trans. “Acid is formed inside the mind of a person before getting in hand”).
Why would a person do such a thing? Ego hurt, feelings not reciprocated or just
simply a moment’s mental disappointment can compel a person to hurt and
disfigure another person? The more I think, the more I fail to understand the
reason that rationalizes the sick desire.
What I feel for us to take a moment and think of how we can
stop people from encouraging their beast within to takeover and losing their
humanity. So, while we all are enjoying the permanent stay at home in the
worldwide lockdown, I would request all of you to take 5 minutes and think
about how to reduce the numbers. Clearly, increasing the term prison years or
even capital punishment is not doing wonders with the numbers. Fun fact – I
haven’t heard or read any new Acid Attack case after the recent lockdown
situation. So, would it require a permanent lockdown to control the number of
barbaric attacks? For today, let’s think on how we can reduce the number of
Acid Attacks… If any of our thoughts reach
the wider audience and helps in reducing the acid attacks even by 1%, we’d save
the 1% population from permanent disfigurement 🙏
