From last two days, only one news is flashing on all news channels i.e. the rape case of one five years old girl and one two and a half years old girl in two different areas of New Delhi, the capital of India.

Yes,  the country which claim to have the richest culture, the land of Ram, Krishan and the land where small girls are considered as the goddess. These girls are raped brutally in the very same land and that too during Navratras-Nine days of Durga Pooja. On one side, few people are worshipping the Goddess, Maa Durga and on another side, few other criminal people are molesting, assaulting Maa Durga. Yes, this is called the variety of people, We live with criminals and pujaris in the same country.

From the childhood days, I have seen people desiring for a son instead of a daughter. Is this the reason for that? A girl needs special care from her childhood, then her education for which she never repay the parents and then dowry at her marriage- these thoughts used to made people dislike a girl child. With the education, a change in mentality took place and I feel that people have started thinking beyond this gender discrimination. These days girls are getting equal rather more education and other facilities as the boys.

Personally, I got equal opportunities in my life as my brothers and others peers got. But now on reading and hearing about these news, I am scared. Being a mother of a girl child who is two years and two months, I am scared for her. I am scared for her protection, her safety, her dignity. I don't know, what should I do? She hardly know these worldly things, what should I teach her? Where should I hide her to protect from these monster? I don't want to tell her that there is a bad world around where she is not secure. There are people who don't think for her as her mother do, as her father do and as her relatives do.

As per the news, the criminals who caught are adolescent and minor but known to the parents. What should be done by parents not to see this phase? Should not they allow their daughters to play with her uncles, cousins, neighbours? They say girls wearing small clothes provoke rape, they say a rape victim must call the rapist "BHAIYA" to save herself. They say watching TV promote rape, and then they say eating chowmein arouse such feelings.

What was in mind of those rapists, above all they are also minor. They are also son of some mother, What made them to do so at this tender age when they must play with dolls or guns for that sake, they are playing with someone's life? I really want to know the cause of such rape when a girl does not even know the difference in small and long dresses, when her world is all about Humpty Dumpty or the 5 little monkeys only. What made them to behave so brutally to a sweet little smiling princess who must be with them thinking they will treat her as sister and give her chocolates.

I as a mother of a small daughter really want to know what caused them to do it so that I can identify what I need to do to protect my princess from these monster she can find anywhere around her.