Today, on my way back from office, while I was coming through vijayanagar, there is this stretch of poorly lit road. The road is good and it is a completely residential area.
A Bajaj CT100 bike (KA02, EA5366) bike was going in front of me and on the extreme left corner of the road was a girl walking back, probably from college or tutions coz she had a knapsack on her back and she was moderately dressed, wearing a jeans and a fullarm sweatshirt.
The biker, riding triples, suddenly swerved to the left and for a moment, I thought he is going to fall.. but he rode on, and the person sitting in the middle put his hand out and actually hit the girl on her back and the trio raced away. I rode my best to catch up with them but I was forced to brake as a kid came in my way!
It was sickening.. Why can't a girl even walk alone that too at 2015 hrs in a completely residential area??? I dunno what the poor girl would have felt and I did not want to make her feel worse by speaking to her abt this. I am not sure if that was a good thing I did or not.. but How I wish the child was taken proper care of by its parents and it had not come in my way. In my rage, I surely would have created a scene there and taken the trio for task for this disgusting task.
What could the girl have done???
- She was alone
- Area was not well lit
- The biker raced away such that being just abt 15 yards behind him, I could not catch up with him.. what could a girl who was walking done??
How I wish that this kind of cheap mentality is ditched and a girl could properly and safely walk on the roads, no matter what the time is.
And on contemplating.. why does this happen only to girls always?? I wish some girls gherao a guy who does this and take him to task.. and let the news get published all round. Probably, only then, would these people understand.
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