essay on “what I would change (personally and in the world) if I could and why
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On September 14th, Manisha Valmiki was brutally raped while cutting grass on a maze field in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India. She was there with her mother but they were at a distance. So it took her mother some time to notice that her daughter was missing.
Manisha’s rapists dragged her with the help of her shawl. Then they gangraped her, strangled her and left her to die. When she was found, she was fighting for life with a broken spine, a tongue that was cut and several other injuries.
After the intensity of her injuries was know, she was shifted to a hospital in Delhi from Uttar Pradesh. Unfortunately, on September 29th, she lost her fight and surrendered to her pain. She gave the name of four of her rapists before her death.
That’s not the end. Those aren’t the only details. Earlier this week, her father reported that the families of the rapists were harassing them for speaking out. They reported that Dalits in their areas are harassed and still looked down on (just for being Dalits). She was from a Dalit family. In Nepal and India, Dalits are considered lower-caste people and were widely known as “untouchables.” In the past, upper-caste people didn’t even drink water served by Dalits. Some people still live by that. It’s 2020 and they are deprived of many rights due to their caste.
She was from a Dalit family. After she died, the police cremated her body without the consent of her family. No final rites were done by the family. With all that poor girl had to go through, her family probably at least wanted to bid her a goodbye properly. The police made sure it wasn’t possible. But would the police have done the same thing if it was someone from “upper-class”? That has become a trending question now.
Remember her name. She was Manisha Valmiki and she was 19.