It Can Happen To You Anywhere...

Your enemies can do it, your friends can do it to you. Your driver,doctor neighbour, neighbourhood shopkeeper your uncle, your priest, your teacher anybody can do it to you. A-n-y body. They can do it to you anywhere - at bus stops, public parks, city toilets in cinema halls, sanctum sanctorums of temples, of churches, of mosques at home or workplace, within or without on your way back from school or office or on your way to your school or office They can do it to you anywhere, anytime in broad daylight, dawn or night, or at twilight when you are entering a river to wash yourself or going behind the bushes to relieve yourself. Yes, it can happen to you anytime, anywhere - whether you are a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian whether you are in a suit or saree, burquah or salwar whether your eyes are black, blue, hair brown or blonde whether you kneel down daily before your dearest Lord or count your beads standing knee deep in water whether you accept, ignore or refuse a lift or joyride on the way to your office or school or marketplace. I know it for certain, for I can still tremblingly hear that heart-rending shriek resounding from the rear seat of a white city bus with tinted dark windows where six men suddenly turned into a pack of wolves on a hungry December night in Lyuten's cold Delhi and fell upon a clothed frail mass of bones and skin, devouring the flesh, then removing the entrails before dumping leftover for the dogs on roadside and I know it can happen anywhere anytime to you. And... it can happen to you in any possible manner from the front or behind; from both front and behind in singles or doubles, in groups of four, six or a score in front of your aunt, mother or granddaughter or along with your aunt, mother or own daughter you know it can happen anywhere to you. Note: - In response to the infamous Nirbhaya Gang Rape Case in New Delhi on the night of 16 December 2012.