Another girl takes her life!
"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!" (In Hamlet, Shakespeare's description of man).
Yet when we read the news that Nazma Khatun of Durgapur, a rape victim, was forced by us to suffer beatings, threats, and humiliation, and the custodian OC evaded with the "compensation" from the rapist, we are shocked. The worst was that she became the object of others' desire and the entire legal system was totally heedless and ignorant, and hence Nazma eventually committed suicide to escape from even worse degradation.
Will the fragments of the civilised people of Durgapur and elsewhere come forward to substantiate that we are (or some of us at least!) the remnants of what Shakespeare had claimed?
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