Searching For The Monsters

One day I decided to go out in the city and find the monsters present in our society. Early morning I went  to the park,  people of all ages were there. I carefully observed everyone but could’nt conclude a monster,as they were so well behaved. Suddenly my eyes went onto the gardener,who was watering the plants. He had a big moustache and beard with white & black hair and was wearing dirty clothes. I got an inner feeling that he can be a monster.In the mean while an old man, who was walking over the wet grass slipped. That gardener went quickly to him, helped him get up, made him sit and brought some water for him. Ah! he can’t be a bad guy, I said to myself. I then went to a tea stall, many people were enjoying the morning tea in the cold breeze. And then I observed a group of young men smoking cigarettes along with the tea. These people who publicly smoke will surely be the monsters I am searching for, I thought. So to hear their conversation I went near them. Then I came to know that they were students of an elite institute in the city, and were smoking to keep themselves awake as they have studied  the whole night. They also can’t be the monsters. For the whole day I visited different places-malls, hotels,shops,offices, schools, observing people and their activities carefully. I doubted about some people being the monsters, but later was convinced that they can’t be , by some or the other reason.

After the whole day toiling, I could’nt even find one. Then how do so many crimes- rapes, abductions, eve-teasing , trafficking occur in our society. From where these monsters come, if they are not in our society, if they are not our friends, brothers and sons. Then I realized we all are the monsters, each one of us. We all have a little monster inside us, which grows in size when we get the required catalysts. This catalyst may be friends, drugs or even our fake ego. In the name of natural beauty or prakriti darshan, we never leave a girl without observing. Have you ever imagined how insecure and uncomfortable a girl feels, when a bunch of guys scan her from top to toe. It’s a matter of confession, we all do it. Specially when we are in a group, a sense of crowd mentality prevails and we forget our own morals. In order to show our courage/bravery/coolness/dudeness, we tend to do many things, which legally are a crime.  Most of the eve-teasing incidents are a result of such groups. One more thing which makes us a monster-is our fake ego. I have read many stories about a girl becoming a victim, after refusing some boy’s proposal, or insulting them or reacting aggressively against them in public. In the era of modernization when women are leaving men behind, these people obsessed with patriarchal mentality tend to bring  them down through their heinous activities. When they can’t stand on their feet, they try standing out on something else. These people think themselves as the custodian of Indian culture, I wonder sometimes, how wonderfully they themselves are contributing to it. And to those who hold women responsible for all this, their dressing sense and attitude. Have you visited Indian villages. Women there, still keep themselves completely covered, are down to earth serving the community silently. But still the facts show that the rape cases in rural areas are more than in the cities. Is the dressing sense and modernization responsible for this? No, it’s the men and their crude thinking.

Most of the crimes occur because we aid them directly or indirectly. There are sex video scandals because we watch, buy and promote them. Rapes occur because some people amongst us provoke and help our friends to do that, there are lawyers amongst us who fight for the wrong ones, there are parents who try to save their rapist son. We go to brothels and kothas, that’s why women trafficking and forced prostitution occurs.

Just think about yourself for a while, you’ll surely find a monster instantly.

Share it with other monsters and help them realize….