write an article on saving mother earth
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India is respected and adored as a motherly figure by its citizens; even Mr. Gandhi who was the founder of the nation, used the metaphor of mother to define the unity of India. There was a movie named as “Mother India”, which was made in 1957 and that movie also focused on the character of a respectable Indian woman who earned the status and respect among fellow villagers as all of them called her mother. This detail may seem unnecessary but it was required before I could shed some light on the situation of women’s rights in India which is not very promising.
As a matter of fact, long before a girl was raped on a bus in Delhi, when she was coming back from cinema, Delhi was known as the rape capital. This situation is earth shattering as India stands second on the female infanticide stand in the world; however the worst of all crimes committed is sexual assault as that not only hurts the victim’s body but rips apart their soul as well. In India 40% of the women are assaulted by their partners; in West it is a factor known as date rape while 65% of women have reported some kind of abuse. These facts and figures become more devastating when we come to know that in every 26 minutes, a woman is assaulted in India which is economically boosting due to the reason that Indian women are playing their positive role and helping their men in their cause of prosperity and development. Rape is a horrible crime against humanity and in India it occurs every 34 minutes. It has been reported that an incident of sexual harassment occurs every 42 minutes in the Indian territory; while one Indian woman is kidnapped every 43 minutes. I found these facts from a census and human rights report in 2002 and 2003; situation is much terrible now. As per some facts and figures, in 2012, 68 rapes occur every day within in the territorial limits of India.
This lets us have an idea of the women rights situation in India and particularly, an idea of the situation of sexual crimes against Indian women; this is a disgusting reality that men do not know how to give respect to women unless those women belong to them. Rape is such a crime that just cannot be condemned in words; hence stern steps are needed to be taken against those who are involved. Men simply need to understand the concept that a woman is an equal human being and certainly not a sub-human, not at all any personal belonging, commodity or property. We need to understand and respect the concept of the privacy of a woman’s body; we need to hardwire this idea in our sons or younger brothers or cousins etc. that a woman has as much right to have her body without any interference and intrusion as a man has. If we simply learn to understand, admire, respect and protect this doctrine, women shall be safer than ever.
As a matter of fact, long before a girl was raped on a bus in Delhi, when she was coming back from cinema, Delhi was known as the rape capital. This situation is earth shattering as India stands second on the female infanticide stand in the world; however the worst of all crimes committed is sexual assault as that not only hurts the victim’s body but rips apart their soul as well. In India 40% of the women are assaulted by their partners; in West it is a factor known as date rape while 65% of women have reported some kind of abuse. These facts and figures become more devastating when we come to know that in every 26 minutes, a woman is assaulted in India which is economically boosting due to the reason that Indian women are playing their positive role and helping their men in their cause of prosperity and development. Rape is a horrible crime against humanity and in India it occurs every 34 minutes. It has been reported that an incident of sexual harassment occurs every 42 minutes in the Indian territory; while one Indian woman is kidnapped every 43 minutes. I found these facts from a census and human rights report in 2002 and 2003; situation is much terrible now. As per some facts and figures, in 2012, 68 rapes occur every day within in the territorial limits of India.
This lets us have an idea of the women rights situation in India and particularly, an idea of the situation of sexual crimes against Indian women; this is a disgusting reality that men do not know how to give respect to women unless those women belong to them. Rape is such a crime that just cannot be condemned in words; hence stern steps are needed to be taken against those who are involved. Men simply need to understand the concept that a woman is an equal human being and certainly not a sub-human, not at all any personal belonging, commodity or property. We need to understand and respect the concept of the privacy of a woman’s body; we need to hardwire this idea in our sons or younger brothers or cousins etc. that a woman has as much right to have her body without any interference and intrusion as a man has. If we simply learn to understand, admire, respect and protect this doctrine, women shall be safer than ever.
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THERE was a time when men imagined the Earth as the center of the universe. Thestars, large and small, they believed were created merely for their delectation. It was their vain conception that a supreme being, weary of solitude, had manufactured a giant toy and put them into possession of it.
When, however, the human mind was illumined by the torch-light of science, it came to understand that the Earth was butone of a myriad of stars floating in infinite space, a mere speck of dust.
Man issued from the womb of Mother Earth, but he knew it not, nor recognized her, to whom he owed his life. In his egotism he sought an explanation of himself in the infinite, and out of his efforts there arose the dreary doctrine that he was not related to the Earth, that she was but a temporary resting place for his scornful feet and that she held nothing for him but temptation to degrade himself. Interpreters and prophets of the infinite sprang into being, creating the "Great Beyond" and proclaiming Heaven and Hell, between which stood the poor, trembling human being, tormented by that priest-born monster, Conscience.
In this frightful scheme, gods and devils waged eternal war against each other with wretched man as the prize of victory; and the priest, self-constituted interpreter of the will of the gods, stood in front of the only refuge from harm and demanded as the price of entrance that ignorance, that asceticism, that self-abnegation which could but end in the complete subjugation of man to superstition. He was taught that Heaven, the refuge, was the very antithesisof Earth, which was the source of sin. To gain for himself a seat in Heaven, man devastated the Earth. Yet she renewed herself, the good mother, and came again each Spring, radiant with youthful beauty, beckoning her children to come to her bosom and partake of her bounty. But everthe air grew thick with mephitic darkness, ever a hollow voice was heard calling:"Touch not the beautiful form of the sorceress; she leads to sin!"
But if the priests decried the Earth, there were others who found in it a source of power and who took possession of it. Then it happened that the autocrats at the gates of Heaven joined forces with the powers that had taken possession of the Earth; and humanity began its aimless, monotonous march. But the good mother sees the bleeding feet of her children, she hears their moans, and she is ever calling to them that she is theirs.
To the contemporaries ofGeorge Washington,Thomas PaineandThomas Jefferson, America appeared vast, boundless, full of promise. Mother Earth, with the sources of vast wealth hidden within the folds of her ample bosom, extended her inviting and hospitable arms to all those who came to her from arbitrary and despotic lands--Mother Earth ready to give herself alike to all her children. But soon she was seized by the few, stripped of her freedom, fenced in, a prey to those who were endowed with cunning and unscrupulous shrewdness. They, who had fought for independence from the British yoke, soon became dependent among themselves; dependent on possessions, on wealth, on power. Liberty escaped into the wilderness, and the old battle between the patrician and the plebeian broke out in the new world, with greater bitterness and vehemence. A period of but a hundred years had sufficed to turn a great republic, once gloriously established, into an arbitrary state which subdued a vast number of its people into material and intellectual slavery, while enabling the privileged few to monopolize every material and mental resource.
When, however, the human mind was illumined by the torch-light of science, it came to understand that the Earth was butone of a myriad of stars floating in infinite space, a mere speck of dust.
Man issued from the womb of Mother Earth, but he knew it not, nor recognized her, to whom he owed his life. In his egotism he sought an explanation of himself in the infinite, and out of his efforts there arose the dreary doctrine that he was not related to the Earth, that she was but a temporary resting place for his scornful feet and that she held nothing for him but temptation to degrade himself. Interpreters and prophets of the infinite sprang into being, creating the "Great Beyond" and proclaiming Heaven and Hell, between which stood the poor, trembling human being, tormented by that priest-born monster, Conscience.
In this frightful scheme, gods and devils waged eternal war against each other with wretched man as the prize of victory; and the priest, self-constituted interpreter of the will of the gods, stood in front of the only refuge from harm and demanded as the price of entrance that ignorance, that asceticism, that self-abnegation which could but end in the complete subjugation of man to superstition. He was taught that Heaven, the refuge, was the very antithesisof Earth, which was the source of sin. To gain for himself a seat in Heaven, man devastated the Earth. Yet she renewed herself, the good mother, and came again each Spring, radiant with youthful beauty, beckoning her children to come to her bosom and partake of her bounty. But everthe air grew thick with mephitic darkness, ever a hollow voice was heard calling:"Touch not the beautiful form of the sorceress; she leads to sin!"
But if the priests decried the Earth, there were others who found in it a source of power and who took possession of it. Then it happened that the autocrats at the gates of Heaven joined forces with the powers that had taken possession of the Earth; and humanity began its aimless, monotonous march. But the good mother sees the bleeding feet of her children, she hears their moans, and she is ever calling to them that she is theirs.
To the contemporaries ofGeorge Washington,Thomas PaineandThomas Jefferson, America appeared vast, boundless, full of promise. Mother Earth, with the sources of vast wealth hidden within the folds of her ample bosom, extended her inviting and hospitable arms to all those who came to her from arbitrary and despotic lands--Mother Earth ready to give herself alike to all her children. But soon she was seized by the few, stripped of her freedom, fenced in, a prey to those who were endowed with cunning and unscrupulous shrewdness. They, who had fought for independence from the British yoke, soon became dependent among themselves; dependent on possessions, on wealth, on power. Liberty escaped into the wilderness, and the old battle between the patrician and the plebeian broke out in the new world, with greater bitterness and vehemence. A period of but a hundred years had sufficed to turn a great republic, once gloriously established, into an arbitrary state which subdued a vast number of its people into material and intellectual slavery, while enabling the privileged few to monopolize every material and mental resource.
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