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An Independence with No Freedom

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Happy Independence Day to another day without freedom for a woman to stay. It is again a horrid time where,  instead of schooling a man, a woman is asked to follow the rules again . The rules are still for us to walk in the dark and not to punish the man who commits a crime in broad daylight. What kind of system is it? Where the perpetrators are roaming free, while the family of the victim is finding a way to believe that  "this can't be it".  The institutions around the country are setting rules to secure a woman by curtailing her freedom to roam around when it is not even her fault.  A doctor on duty for 36 hours was subject to one of the worst crimes in human history. Yet, it is another story where society will say,  "Why did she wear that?" "Why was she out in the middle of the night?" "Why was she alone in a seminar hall at such a time? ". A woman committed to her job, saving people's lives, was deprived of it all. It is ironic that