I don’t celebrate Mother’s Day nor Women’s Day. Nor do I fast for 9 days during the annual Navratra festival. Perhaps one doesn’t need to engage in rituals to respect the epitome of “Adi-Shakti”. Hence, it is disconcerting to see the anguish and pain of parents of a 10-year-old girl who was rap*d and became pregnant. The girl has been petitioning Indian Courts for permission to abort her pregnancy. Petition? Are we retarded? Isn’t she a 10-year-old girl for God’s sake?! We pu...blicize and blow our own trumpet about “progression” and “economic might” to rest of the world, even as our children and women are unsafe in the confines of their own Home! What’s more, there’s some real powerful women reps out there in the Indian Parliament; of course, their appointments are on basis of merit or devoid of merit is another question altogether. I sincerely hope that the 10-year-old girl and many like her get swift “justice”. Before the onset of the annual Navratra festival in 2017. And I hope the perpetrators of such horrid crimes face gallows. Before the next “Women’s Day”! #SaveTheGirlChild