I saw a man lying almost unconscious on the platform. His pair of clothes were extremely dirty. He had not worn any footwear. Besides him sat a woman, in squatting position mostly his wife in an equally dirty saree and shabby looks. It seemed as if her hair were not made since months. Besides them was a big plastic vessel in which few clothes were tied n may be a plastic bag of eatables. I couldn't understand the language in which the woman spoke but could certainly make out she was yelling. Within no time she removed the her chappals n started hitting the man quite violently. Then with her hands she hit him on his head. Lifted his head with her hands n hit it back on the floor.It was quite a violent scene for me to keep observing it hence i turned my face the other side but could still hear her beating him. He would try and defend himself but perhaps was not conscious enough to retaliate. To my surprise the men standing on the platform were laughing seeing this.! " Hahaha saala biwi se pit raha hai."
Some men where watching it with interest and curiosity while few others ignoring it and deeply sunk in their financial dailies.
A thought just passed my mind. What would have been the scene had it been the other way round. As in the woman lying almost unconscious and a constantly yelling man hitting her publicly for 15 mins. ( May be more than 15 mins, bcz i boarded a local when the scene was still on) This would have instantly generated pity for the woman being hit within the crowd. Some other women on the platform would have rushed to her aid. No sooner the police would have arrived. Above all there would have been a great sense of sympathy for that woman being hit.
Then why was the man being hit was laughed at? No other person on platform seemed even sympathetic towards the man. Well I did feel sympathetic but sadly neither did I do anything n just watched it happen.
I stood there silently just observing it all and getting impatient to know how ideally I should react in such situations.
The obvious arguments placed by many of my friends was he must be a drunkard, he must have tortured his wife etc. But in my opinion violence in any case is violence unless it is used for self defence.
Being a woman myself I totally understand how over the years the fairer sex has suffered and is still suffering bcz of her being less physically strong.!
But what surprises me is why only a man is blamed each time.. I have seen soooo many many women being extremely manipulative and actually ruining a man emotionally. And emotional violence is afterall no less than being victim to physical violence.!
There are so many men too who get raped but it never gets the same publicity as violence against women gets. No doubt the proportion of women being tortured is still much higher but sad that men amongst themselves seem so unaffected by the violence their fellow men face and don't have the courage to fight against it.!
After all it's not just women but even men who are instruments of torture.!
