How secure are our women?
In the King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital overseeing the plush suburb of Parel, Mumbai lies the mighty Aruna Shanbaug, a nurse by profession, in an irreversible and incurable permanent vegetative state (PVS), relentlessly waiting since the past 40 years for a decree from the Supreme Court of India to let her die peacefully through euthanasia. She begs the apex court for a dime of mercy to liberate her from the chains of this perpetual inferno, into which she was unwillingly thrown by a merciless satanic creature amongst us on a fateful night of November, the 27 th of 1973. She valiantly battles with the living hell with a fervent hope that someday her soul will finally be put to rest. Roughly four decades later, on December, the 16 th 2012 a 23-year old brave heart pseudo-named Nirbhaya, one that she was, lost her battle with life and succumbed to the grievous injuries inflicted by a brutal and bestial sexual assault by six demons of the same species as ours. She fought till ...