Violence is the behavior which involves physical force with the intention to hurt, damage or kill someone. In India, many times we see discrimination coalesced with violence based on gender. A Gender Female person typically experiences violence targeted at her in various forms; it may be personal or social. One in three women suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

 

RaC Young Visionaries organized “Aziyat Ka Punchnama” on 12th July, 2018 outside Vishwavidyalaya metro station. Sukhmanch Theatre group presented a street play that knocks at our mind, asks on our face, slaps our conscience that it's enough; zero tolerance; No more crime against women. The act included potrayal of an acid attack upon a girl who was about to get married. An expecting wife was beaten until she aborted because the foetus was a girl child. A teenage girl was raped by next of kin just to satisfy his lust. Such a potrayal of the dark side of the society that swallows up so many lives shook one and all to the core. Every day assumptions of society that conveniently shifts the blame onto the woman were called into question. Be it going out late or wearing clothes of their choice, why is it always that a woman is blamed? Short clothes incite men to rape women. How could a 8 month old child provoke anyone? A girl working hard but late in the day is thought nothing better than a prostitute. Why is society so bent on drilling rules into their girls' minds when their boys care nothing about them? Sukhmanch's performance sent out the message in bolds that this must stop. Feedback session with the audience gave us hope for a better future.