Delhi Gang Rape: Society Missed Key Issues In Much Ado

 It is exactly 45 times the sun arose with the hope to see a day more innocuous and parabolized under the horizon with poignant ignominy and anguish after the appallingly atrocious incident of Delhi stained a black spot on the Elysian plume of Mother India.

There are thousands (21413 in 2009 and 24270 in 2011 as per Crimes in India statistics published by National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs; look at page 397 in both reports) of such incidents taking place throughout India, at a ‘happening’ rate of 1 per 30 minute and one per every 14 hours in the capital itself, but somehow the Delhi incident has managed to blow up the whistle. It generated huge mass mobilization around Delhi and all other places in India. Shame and protest is avowed at the international level too. The Wikipedia coverage totted up to the infamy; even Google lit a candle 'in memory of the Delhi brave-heart'. 

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OF Medicine,A dying mother and PREJUDICE

The Case

“Two investigations are under way into the death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant, at University Hospital Galway last month. Savita Halappanavar (31), a dentist, presented with back pain at the hospital on October 21st, was found to be miscarrying, and died of septicemia a week later… Ms Halappanavar asked for a medical termination. This was refused, he (Praveen Halappanavar, her husband) says, because the fetal heartbeat was still present and they were told, ‘this is a Catholic country’.” Despite knowing that,“the cervix was fully dilated, amniotic fluid was leaking and unfortunately the baby wouldn't survive.”,  The Irish Times  reports. In short, as it appears in The Telegraph, “A woman died after she was refused an abortion at an Irish hospital whilst undergoing a miscarriage”.

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