Are we safe anywhere?
When I saw the news yesterday, about the murder of a young girl, Pallavi, in Mumbai, in her own flat, it made me very sad and very-very insecure. What do you do when your protector turns against you? We are not safe in our homes, we are not safe when we are outside our homes; Are we safe anywhere? Even if you are living in a house full of people, you are not safe, let alone women who live all by themselves! Because of safely issues many of us consider shifting from our independent homes to multistory multistory buildings, where we think we are completely secure, after all there is 24X7 security, power back-up etc. So how do we ensure that we are completely secure? I don’t know if we can ever do that. The truth I guess is that we can never be completely secure. This heinous murder just showed us how easy it is for anyone to walk into our bedrooms. It is scary but that is the truth. We can’t be vigilant all the time. This can happen to any of us! The...