The horrific gangrape of the 23 year old medical student in Delhi outraged the nation so badly that no other news is seem to be important in the country right now. People from all the four corners of the country expressed their agony and the social networking sites are filled with demands for capital punishments for the savage goons who committed this heinous crime. Almost all the known public figures including Bollywood celebrities expressed their sadness over the sorry state of affair in the country that aspires to become a superpower but can't even defend it's own citizens in the national capital. Noted film director and actor Farhan Akhtar has protested by writing a poem which surely echoes the sentiments of the billion people whose pride for being the citizens of the world's largest democracy gets shattered when this kind of barbaric atrocity happens.
Read Farhan Akhtar's poem:
What is this country that I live in?
With no equality
And the quality of life
Differs from husband to wife
Boy to girl, brother to sister
Hey Mister, are you the same?
Contributing to the national shame
Replacing your mothers
With the bent ideology of another's
perception that women have a particular role in society
Fills my heart with anxiety
Where is all of this going?
What will emerge from these seeds that we're sowing?
It makes my head spin
But I'm not giving in
Will keep asking the question
What is this country that I live in?
What is this country that I live in?
That takes away her right to love
Brutalises her with an iron glove
Rapes her without fear
of there being justice for her tear
We've demeaned our goddesses
Gone back on all our promises
Become a gender distorted nation
Given our conscience a permanent vacation
what do I tell my daughter?
That she's growing up to be lamb for the slaughter
we've got to make a change
Reboot, reformat, rearrange,
and never give in
no matter how much our head may spin
Just keep asking the question
What is this country that I live in?
Here to help. Love. Farhan.
Poem Source : Internet
(AW-Jyotishman)
