No woman’s land

India, the land of goddesses, has become a place where women are treated worse than animals. In Assam, one teenager is publicly molested by mob, another by army men, while their MLA is beaten up by mob. In Maharashtra, a school girl is made to drink her urine for bedwetting and a model is beaten up by mob. In Karnataka, a dentist husband makes his wife drink his urine while torturing her for dowry. In Uttar Pradesh, while the village panchayat orders that women below cannot go outdoors, cannot have mobile phones, policemen rape women. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, just some of the reported cases. Instances of harassment of women are increasing day by day. With rising cases of female feticide and infanticide and abandoned and battered babies, acid attacks, molestations, dowry deaths, honor killings, it is difficult to say if girls of any age are safe here. Girls are molested by strangers and their own kin alike. From before her birth till after her death, a girl is never safe.