Against FGM

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

(Sonali Bhatia)

How eerie it could be to even imagine someone being rubbed by the red chilli powder on a severe wound, let alone to feel it. In my part of the world, around two hundred million women bear the same extent of pain in a very tender age; the practice referred as FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) and spread in the regions of Africa, Middle East and the Indian sub continent (with Somalia’s affected rate of around 98%).

As defined by WHO, FGM is a procedure, comprising, the removal of genitalia or other female organs for non medical reasons; partially or fully. Long FGM, called ‘Katana’ or ‘Boras’ in India was a well kept secret, a taboo, never talked of until 2012, when WHO unanimously began to work for its elimination from the local minds. Though four years later, there still hasn’t been any law to stop the practice.

The process takes around four to five minutes, while the girl bears the horrific pain; the mere motive being, the removal of ‘unwanted skin’ and as the Bohra community reason it, ‘the source of sin’.

Torturing and denying the emotion of love and the right over your desires and justifying with a term of ‘the source of sin’ beams the trait of a sick society with its shabby minds and shallow conscience.

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