Where the mind is without fear

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Where the mind is without fear


By : Aparna Das                                                                                                     Date : 31.3.2018


Please tell me Didi auto driving is a crime? No,this question is not mine, this question is a female auto driver, who  assaulted by another male auto drivers, while driving auto on the streets of Kolkata. Now I’m giving a brief description of this incident. Through the media, I came to know that on 6TH February IN 2018, Tollygunj  to Hazra route will be the first female driven auto route in the city. After that, 16 women applied for license. Among these 16 applicants have already got several license . But sadly with Auto they  could not get to the street. But why is this so? As far as get to know, in order to prevent male auto drivers from that route, women auto drivers can not get out of that route with auto. Complaints like, if women drivers go out on the streets with auto, they may be raped and getting threat from the male drivers. Male auto drivers are trying in different ways that women auto drivers can not hire auto .Who will solve this problem? Where one of the auto union head said that the girls are good at home. Auto driving  is not their job. Who will take responsibility,  If a female auto driver is raped by someone? I could not believe my ears after watching this news on TV. It seems to me repeatedly that such an  incident happened in an educated, eclectic and cultural city like Kolkata. Where the state Chief Minister is a woman in particular that state. Although there has been a storm of criticism from all corners of the event, as the news spread through the media. Although many male auto drivers stood beside the female drivers for support of them. Such an event was never expected, never . If such incidents happen in centre of the state, then we can imagine the situation of the districts. After this incident, various newspapers will write for few days, leaders,  ministers will give a speech but will such event be closed? I don’t  think so. Still I am a believer that  there is a proverb in Bengali which goes like this "Biswase milaye bostu,  torke bohudur." What it essentially means is that if we believe in something, it becomes easier to achieve. There will be a lot of obstacles in the way of life. So we will not be back. We will go ahead with all the obstacles and move forward. Life is dynamism. This incident is not limited in auto stands only. The incident around us is going on constantly. The thing is that,  girls are oppressed by the our nearest and dearest someone, who claimed themselves  cultured, educated, so-called interested people who love to fear the women without any reason. Even so, girls are moving forward. Do not be scared someone for a long time. As seen after this incident in order to run auto on the streets of Kolkata, the 16 women sought help from the police, assured by the police that they would be beside of them. I believe , after few days that only 16 women auto drivers will not go out on the streets of Calcutta, with 16 other female auto drivers added and  going to the streets. I remember Rabindranath Tagor’s lines of the famous poems “Where the mind is without fear. and the head is held high, where knowledge is free.’

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