Saturday, June 25, 2016

RIP Chennai

#swathi #Infosys #Nungambakkam #Chennai got right hashtags, needless to introduce the horror. In a matter of few days, we'll forget & move on. Nothing will change, be it, staring a fight on public places, clicking snaps or videos of that, continue to blog or shed words of anger on #FB, #TWITTER, #Whatsapp simply nothing will change...

What picks the eye is the culprit, he looks like a normal *#boy_next_door*. . . Investigation so far claims, he must be an acquaintance. As the witnesses mention, there was an heated argument ending up with an horror at a blink of an eye. Blame it on the upbringing of the boy who caused the never repairable pain to a girl and her family.


*Request to #Parents, #Brothers & #Sisters*

1⃣ Parents, Brothers please get closer to your kids, Brothers, sisters... get to know their friends, office colleagues, social media activities, acquaintances, in today's techno world, it's difficult but not impossible.

2⃣ Even your son or daughter or sister or brother, might hide out of few relationships or challenges they undergo, either because of fear of your reaction (either too emotional or angry or weak to handle) or they knew they are doing wrong.

3⃣ Apart from murder, there were and are instances where a girl gets victimized by losing herself as well

4⃣Ensure their safety is double checked during commute or any outing. They may easily give over time, work pressure as reason, could be true too, help them take a call on priority, office may mourn an email, few colleagues, leadership and HR visit with sad face, they will only show more care to guard their brand. Work comes only after safety and health.

5⃣ If they have a bad boss, who challenges safety and health of your kid, don't hesitate to intervene by talking to the boss, to ensure his/her boss doesn't hit the work life balance, worst case, chase another job.

*Final set of request to ourselves*:

1⃣ No place is safe, no time in a day is safe, let's be choosy to select our friends, neighbours, acquaintances and be choosy on our travel modes, travel destination and those who accompany us

2⃣Ensure our family knows our contacts

3⃣ More pain or shame is for our family than to us, while we end up at times from a non reversible misery

4⃣ Let's choose a safe commute, let's not be submissive or over enthusiastic or over dedicated at the cost of our safety. Let's take a stand to voice our safety when things are being pushed.

5⃣ Let's not hesitate to part ways with any relationship which threatens our safety, but let's do it politely and firmly.

6⃣ Let's not indulge in response to stranger poke or chat.

7⃣ Let's revisit our FB contacts often, let's not absorb unless we are sure

8⃣Let's be cautious in our talks in public and social media. Let's be aware, our share, comments, likes stands visible.

9⃣ Let's try to ensure not to disclose more personal life events on social media and photos

🔟 Let's not feel that we are caged due to care or follow-up from our loved ones, instead feel secured to spare those minutes to update them, spending that quality time to share your side of life, introducing your contacts.

*Note*:

1⃣ No one else can best guard ourselves. Unless we let some one in, no one can easily hurt us, unless it's a act of theft, killing for money or terror.

2⃣ On social media we show force tongue, but the real moment is on ground, when an help is required, when an brave intervention is required, an holistic change in bravery is needed. We can't always rely on police or govt. Officials, *More we help each other, less we stand chances of victimised*.

If only her 2 hour lay on ground was attended by public around by calling ambulance, at least a slim chance of saving a soul might have been on cards 😔