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JUSTICE – A LUXURY WE CANNOT AFFORD

Shakespeare has rightly said “what’s there in a name?”

Nirbhaya, Bharat ki beti ,we have given her so many names but what about her identity .How do we know her? We identify her as a “rape victim” nothing more and nothing less to it.

 A “rape victim” about whom everyone is talking ,”a rape victim” who was warrior , a “rape victim” who was a 23 year old with hopes and aspiration and a rape victim who even after turning into a dead celebrity overnight is still waiting for justice. Now because we know her all of us are angry and are protesting but what about all those who are being raped in every part of the country, every day and are being tortured to death.

Statistics shows that every year there’s an increase of 20% in rape cases and almost all of them die waiting for justice.

I am one such girl who is living inside every single female who is young has dreams, who’s working to earn her bread, who’s middle –class and whose father and brother cannot escort her every single time .I hear about all these things happening around me .I feel scared I feel terrified and above all I feel dead. I have suffered from eve teasing and when I discuss this with my friends they too have suffered the same no matter what their age is, where they live and what they were wearing, but all of us choose not to react not to raise our voice because we are being brought up in a society where the only thing that we are being taught is Justice is a luxury we cannot afford.

-  Article by Kratee Tandon

अंतर्मन

एक द्वंद में उलझा हुआ
एक आग में झुलसा हुआ,
अंतर्मन खड़ा है आज
किस बात पर अडा है आज
कभी सूर्य सा उज्जवल है ये,
कभी छाया काली रात सा
है ख़ुद में सवाल सा
चट्टान में दरार सा,
अपने आप में उलझा हुआ
अपनी आग में झुलसा हुआ,
हर चक्रवियु को भेदने की जिद पर अडा है आज
फिर सम्मुख अंतर्मन खड़ा है आज ।

- कृती

SOUL

How so ever hard the world try,

the soul within can never die.

My aims,

the person i aspire to be,

My motive,

the dreams living in me,

Can not die,

How so ever hard the whole world try.

Small or big i have my dreams to live,

my aims r endless n no one can kill them till i have a life to live.

my ways may seem wired to u,

but then this is my way

n one day

I will prove it right 2 u .

People will doubt n question me ,

n the world will do everything to shake the faith i have in me,

I know,

But how so ever hard the world try,

the soul in me can never die......

- Kratee Tandon