Light

She has a name. Jyoti (JOO-thee) Singh Pandey. She was the young woman fatally raped on a bus in India recently. Her father asked Britain's Sunday People to publicize her name. Up to this point, she was anonymous. Or Anonymous, a representative of all the women who have been raped in India. Perhaps in the world.

Greater minds than I speak of the cultural problems in India that foster an environment where women are sexually harrassed and even raped. As with all problems in the world, it is our collective problem.

Her father wants the world to know her name. It is a beautiful name, isn't it? Jyoti. It means "light." As you can easily see, I am not very articulate in this post. I just hurt. For her, for her father, for all of us, male and female, who live in a world where such a light can be so cruelly snuffed out.

Susan