When I heard that Kerala Women’s Commissioner M.C. Josephine’s advice to a distraught domestic violence victim. in a live television show, was just “Enna pinne anubhavicho” (Then you bear it), it did not surprise me at all. I am very sure that this was not the first time that the victim had heard this answer too, be it from her family or her social circle. This frivolous comment is common parlance to most Indian women and is the biggest roadblock in the lives of many, including mine. Personally, the comment has wreaked havoc in my life and had pushed me into the depths of depression for many years together. The inane comment is not so inane when it comes to the repercussions that it leads to. The person who is hearing it (90 per cent of the time a woman) voices out her fear or pain after many deliberations. But the comment is thrown back on her face as a retort as she failed to fall in line with the accepted practices. All this because she had taken a step that is against a common lin...
Reflections of a random kind.