Women in Modernized India

Two weeks ago, in Guwhati (a city in North East India) a 20 year old woman was molested and beaten by 20 men brutally when she had come out of a pub. This went on for 40 minutes and it was recorded in action by a journalist; and it was broadcast by  a TV news channel and in the net also.(Such crimes should not be telecast) After 40 minutes the police arrived from a police station which was just 2 KM away;they came with reluctance. Debates ensued on the safety of women, on how to protect the women. On July 20, 2012 the Union Cabinet had approved the proposal for the Criminal Law (Amendment) bill 2012 in such a way that the word “rape” is replaced by the word “sexual assault” The punishment for assault will be minimum of seven years to life in imprisonment. Provision for increasing the punishment has been made for making acid attacks which is  a specific offence. Gender crimes are on the increase in India. As per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), crimes against women have increased by 21%. Just making laws will not reduce crimes. We must examine’ why is there so much hatred for women’?  More women are educated liberated and have moved out of their homes to public places for entertaining themselves. Women have advanced socially and have moved on, crossing over traditional boundaries. Men from lower classes resent the new found freedom of the upper class women, and want to pounce on them at the slightest opportunity. That is the reason that there are so many gang rapes, acid attacks and molestations. But we cannot go back and limit the mobility and the  freedom of the women;they have rights to move in public places. We must make the men accept that there will be differences in classes and if they do not accept these and continue to molest women,severe  punishments will be given. As a traditional civilization modernizes, violent nature of men is surfacing more than ever before. These are dominating patriarchal men violently hitting back the liberated modern women. Finding a weak person to vent out own incapacity and hitting with hatred is the working of a criminal mind. These are popular opinions which are wrong: "Women should find new avenues to find enjoyment without resorting to “show-offing” their status in an open manner. They should may be move in groups and not ever be found alone". But women cannot move back to “veil” as they were kept for thousands of years in Indian culture. Nor can “khap panchayat” justice can be allowed to control them. Modernism has arrived in India and now, there is no going back.We have cultural change in India which has emancipated the women, which is unacceptable to some of  the men.In modernized India, women have freedom to move out of their homes.India's men with patriarchal mindsets will have learn to live in the modernized era.