On Rape
We come across the news of 'rape crimes' and it often provokes a strong sense of disgust and anger towards those labelled as rapists, more so when the crime accompanies gruesome violence, even murder. This strong emotion of disgust and fear sometimes gets directed towards anyone who resembles the rapist of your imagination in any minor form. Perhaps he is just a man from Rohtak, or just an auto driver passing by you on an empty road. The phenomenon is called emotional transference, wherein emotions related to your past memories evoke and overwhelm you when a present situation resembles the past memory in any form. How should we define Rape and whom should we call a rapist ? When we go through stories of rape, we observe that a rapist is a person who pursues his interests with huge disregard to other people's sensitivities and emotions. He violates the boundaries of other people and has a sense of entitlement over things and people, and even the law. He treats people as mean...