Thousand years of Tyranny

Years have passed- we promise not to judge women, yet we do. We call that girl going out with male friends, a slut. We claim that the girl who got the promotion that we were supposed to, slept her way up. We blame the woman driver almost every time an accident happens.

Years have passed- we promise our parents and sisters to be respectful. Yet, the first words of irritation we utter are BC and MC.

Years have passed- we promise our mothers, sisters and wives to come back home. But we never do- getting killed in road accidents and drunken brawls.

Years have passed- we promise her her privacy and freedom, yet snoop on her phone and become annoyed with her social life.

Years have passed- we tell her that we love her with every cell in our heart. Yet, when she rejects us, we threaten her with photographs and acids.

Years have passed- we vow to uphold integrity and pledge to treat our fellow Indian women as sisters. Yet, we make risque, nasty comments and lewd gestures.

Years have passed and we still keep breaking promises. We need organisations; we need special articles in our constitution to facilitate women to live a free life. As men, we have failed. But not all is lost. We are better than we were, our actions better that it used to be. The voice of the society as a whole is now reaching out to us. We are changing. It will take some time for Rome was not built in a day. To all the women out there, please do not judge us as a whole. You might have had bad experiences before but let that not stop you from trusting the rest of us.

We men have realised that all this has to stop. The day when there is zero reservation for women, zero special laws and legislatures to ensure safety and security of women, more importantly, the day when men treat every single woman as their equal and counter part is the day this tyranny of thousand years would end.