Why does a blog post on public
masturbation written by a foreign travel blogger goes viral on social media? Thereafter,
on which myriad of tweets done by Indian men and women fetched people’s
attention. Lucy, a British travel blogger takes her experience which she
certainly and sadly faced during her India visit in Mumbai while sitting at bus
stop...
But the vexed question here comes out is “does that just happen with white non-natives or the natives are also being
assaulted with an awful act like this within the country?”
HAVE you
ever experienced an incident what Lucy did in her India visit? According to her
post which she published in her blog Lucy’SmilesAway harking back to her
experiences which she undergone at Mumbai bus stop, when an Indian man publicly
masturbated staring directly at her. Lucy took this incident to her blog and
wrote:-
“As
much as I hate to admit it, this isn’t the first time it’s happened to me. In
fact, chances are, if you’ve ever been to India, you’ll have bumped into at
least one traveller who has experienced this sort of behavior, or heard of
someone else who it has happened to. I’ve spent countless hours with other
travellers picking apart why men do it; why they seem to think it’s okay, why
dignity seems to disappear when
there’s foreign female flesh on show.”
Through her
post Lucy explains her thoughts that this is not just one single time she had
faced something like that in India, in fact she mentions in her post that many travellers like her do face
such incidents in their India visit. Though Lucy did face this one of the most loathsome
incident twice previously but an experience which she witnessed in Mumbai stroked
her in some way.
But her post
title and Lucy’s thoughts clearly defines her love and respect towards India as
she puts a title “Adorable India…..” Lucy
got myriad of responses on twitter apologizing and making her assure that India
do have many men who night and day work for country’s welfare. Here are some
tweets:-
“I read your
blog about your stay in India, and from the bottom of my heart I apologize on
behalf of the men in my country. Just to let you know there are good men in
India who are trying everyday to make the country a better place to live in,
and of course it is a trail [sic] and error process.”
Another man,
Aditya, shared: “I felt very bad that you had such a bad experience in India.
It is really painful when my fellow Indians behave in such a beastly manner,
and end up damaging my beautiful country’s image overseas. But, trust me, not
all males in India are like that.”
Why
never a native who has been the victim of public masturbation in India reported
or talked about this incident? Are sections 509 and 294 under IPC enough to deal
with such issue?
Tell us what more experiences you
have witnessed or faced no matter you are a non-native or native. Write and
send us your view on such aghast issue and ways or laws that it should be dealt
with.
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