New Delhi, Aug 28: President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday penned an emotional article on cruelty to women wherein she urged the girls to win freedom from fear.
Recalling the Kolkata horror as one of the most gruesome cruelty towards the women community Murmu said, "The gruesome incident of rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata has left the nation shocked. I was dismayed and horrified when I came to hear of it. What is more depressing is the fact that it was not the only incident of its kind; it is part of a series of crimes against women.”
“Even as students, doctors and citizens were protesting in Kolkata, criminals remained on the prowl elsewhere. The victims include even kindergarten girls. No civilised society can allow daughters and sisters to be subjected to such atrocities. The nation is bound to be outraged, and so am I. We owe it to our daughters to remove the hurdles from their path of winning the freedom from fear. Then we can collectively give a firm answer to the innocent query of those children in the next Raksha Bandhan.Let us collectively say enough is enough." Murmu wrote in her article on the title, ‘Enough is enough’.
Contributing the article for a national news agency, Murmu urged everyone to respect women and all social institutions to ensure safety of girls at every stage.
Adaging Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's famous poem "Where the mind is without fear", Murmu said that "I am sometimes anguished because on the one hand we worship women as goddesses but that does not get reflected in day to day behaviour"
