After having a dinner @ my hometown, I dropped her at a public place called race course which is frequented by families and young crowd till late hours. I always make it a point to drop any female to her desired destination 9.00 p.m. and I did the same. As she had her own vehicle parked @ so-called public place, I decided her to follow in my car till her home. It was quite difficult for me to drive @ 60 kms an hour on that road as there were few vehicles on the road which created a gap between me and my friend. Out of nowhere I see one bike and two guys driving along with my friend... Whoops!!!
More than hundred thoughts crossed my mind... Do they know her? Her neighbors? Cousins? Road romeos? Should I move my car close to them? Should I stop them n try to be a Hero? etc......
It was not more than a matter of 10 secs and she took a turn towards her home and those lil puppies made their way on different lane..
I felt more relieved than my friend would have at that time. Unfortunately, ladies experience these incidents on a regular basis, so they normally avoid any confrontation but it was totally out of blue for me!!!
If those guys would have tried to act even lil smarter, they would have been treated with the experience they wouldnt have dreamed of(I can swear on that). But is it necessary that a female needs to accompanied by a male after late hours?
Our state is known across India and world for its safety for women. It is said and seen that girls move out on roads till late night on various occasions such as Navratri, Diwali n lot more...
After that incident, I thought what would have been my best course of action at that time? And I thought that I should have followed them, leaving my friend on her own as she was only two minutes away from her home.. stopped them and would confronted them with appropriate measures (Sam-Daam-Dand-Bhed) which might have made them think twice before following any gal or making any other advances...
Bhumika, if we have got lucky and escaped such situation, it doesnt mean that we will be lucky next time or that asses are not going to repeat the same thing with other individual with more boldness...
You and I are equally responsible for promoting them to get more bolder and directing them to serious crimes like eve-teasing, blackmail, rape n murder...
I would like to quote an example of Surat Rape case, where in three males gang raped a teenager. Later it was discovered that these goons have been committing such acts from long time but didnt get caught as no one complained.... Just think, it would have been started off with eve-teasing when these goons must be young... If they would have been stopped at that stage itself, they wouldn't have committed such act..
Men are not born Demons, society creates them!
