Literacy can be a PIA…

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PIA is Pain In Ass and not Pakistan International Airlines.

Being a Mallu or Malayali (not being offensive in any way by calling myself a Mallu), i’m proud that when it comes to literacy we are doing fairly good as a state. So when this article came to my attention – 300% increase in violence against women in India’s most literate state – i did feel very bad. Being literate we were supposed to be as a model for others to follow and we all together portraying a wrong picture here.

But the i saw the other angle of that. They reached that statistics coz women in Kerala realized the power of law and that there are laws that protect them from domestic violence. They approached the law when in need. The clause that caught me is – “cases files”.

So all those state that say that there is only a marginal increase in domestic violence or that the stats have fallen, RETHINK!!! It could be because that people dont know about the law. Tell them about the law and then lets see.

Even though the report said all that about Kerala, it still quotes this -

But change could happen fast in Kerala, thanks to high levels of literacy. Greater awareness, redressal mechanisms, etc. could help women move forward, as has been seen in recent times.

Thats why i say Literacy can be a real Pain in the Ass at times …

  • http://www.sreeragrajan.blogspot.com sreerag

    kerala is not only the top most in literacy…. but in india the state of kerala scored highst in the law and order too…. its is because the people have increased awareness and trust on the law and order system in the country.

    we can find this small state hanging down like a tail in the malabar coast of the indian sub continent is having the highst no of reporting cases of violence…. the point to be considerd is not ” highest no of violence cases” but ” reported cases”, that means people are respecting law and order and trying to bring the convicts in front of law. this is a big deal.. a state is playing its part in bringing our india to achive goal of a man, who is inspiring our indian youth to emerge as a super power….

    education is the first and formost thing each and every citizen should acqure to reach the goal of INDIA 2020…

  • http://thedailycolumns.wordpress.com aniche

    And to add to the literacy the British Library is closing down as well.We’ll probably make the kids in lord of the flies look lik a group of tea drinking, opera viewing culture freaks :)