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“ I am doing night shifts from years but I never felt scared inside my hospital.“ But now when I move from one room to another and find men around me, I feel insecure. I know it is only my apprehension and not a reality but what can you do to fear”.“ The image of Jagurati is always in my eyes and I really feel the pain in my heart. I have heard of many rape cases but would only stake a sigh and curse the guilty. But this incident has left a scar on my mind and heart as well”.
By Chasfeeda Shah
hen Qurat-ul-Ain entered the room to get her

Wcollege admission

ness, he offered some words of solace. ' Sit beti( daughter). Why are you shivering, is everything ok?'”
“ The psychological effect of that incident is always there,” she says.
“ I try to persuade myself that all men
form, she was trembling with fear.
It was hard for the teacher to under-
are not alike but once the situation
Something on the back of her mind
stand the reasons for Ain ' s anxiety
comes like where I am alone with
was making her numb deep inside.“ I
but for her the deficit of trust had a
any man I feel insecure”.
had a chocolate in my hand and was
valid reason.“ The Delhi gang rape
The Delhi gang rape incident has not
ready to enter inside the room when I
was fresh on my mind,” she says. It
only scared the women of Delhi but
found the teacher alone. He was issu-
reminded me not to trust anyone in
its ripple effects can be seen everying
the( admission) forms. I was
the world”.
where- be it a remote village or a
scared on seeing the teacher alone inside the room,” she says.“ No
doubt, the person sitting in front of me was a good human being but my
hands begin to shiver while collecting the form. As he saw my nervous-
After the Delhi gang rape in which
five men gang raped a college stu- dent on a moving bus, it is difficult for Ain to trust any man. This inci- dent has changed her life forever.
metropolitan city. In a recent survey conducted outside the tuition cen- tres, 89 per cent girls say they feel insecure, fear walking alone or in the evenings.
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