Friendly Letter to Amanat

Dear Amanat,

I’ve heard about your case in Delhi from the news and I felt really sorry for you. I hope you will be happier where you are now. I just want to tell you, your death is never in vain.

Firstly, your death had cast a spotlight on the status of women in India, allowing the whole world to understand how inferior females are as compared to males in India. Although the world had entered a new era, women in India are still not educated and they cannot hold a prestigious job. Instead, they were only given physically difficult and undesirable jobs. Because of your death, many people had protested for justice and women are treated better in terms of security.

Secondly, your case had proved to the whole wide world that the police in India handle rape cases with no sympathy.  In an article, your fiancé said that police arrived at the scene and delayed for two hours before you were sent to the hospital. However, your death allowed the India police force to reflect on them and they are now enforcing stricter plans to protect the women in India to prevent such tragedy to happen again. Police also have to go through intensive sensitization programmed which aims at inculcating greater responsibility and appropriate approach towards rape victims.

 Lastly, your death also encouraged rape victims to come forward to seek justice. In the past, rape victims were seen as ‘dirty’ and were discriminated. No one cares about how much they suffered and mental trauma caused by rapist. Therefore, victims tend to keep their unfortunate past to themselves to prevent themselves from being looked down by others. However, because of your death, many people around the world had realized how frequent rape occurs in India, and also encouraged rape victims to stand out and seek justice for themselves, at the same time punishing their tormentors.

Your death is not in vain. In fact, you allowed the society to understand how much a rape victim and her family had suffered. At the same time, allow the society to change their views towards rape victims and treat them with respect.

Yours sincerely,

Lay Hoon