Bell Bajao (Ring the Bell)

Each and every visit to India is special not just because of the family we get to meet but also the services we get from house help. Though it means much more work for them the maids also look forward to seeing us each year. And we appreciate every single day they make us feel pampered. Our parents provide for their kids education so they can take up better professions and also take care of their medical costs. Every month when my mother in law pays them the salary the two women do not want to take home a single penny. You wonder why? For everyone looks forward to salary day! But these two women ask us to just deposit it for them because the salary, if reaches home, will be snatched away by the husband and if her voices is raised, his hand will not spare her. Once she really needed the money to spend on necessities so she took it along and hid it in her blouse. The husband searched high and low and then resorted to beating her! Next day, she came to work and told no one about it. I saw her limping and asked if she is sick ,tears rolled down her cheek. Why didn't she stay home? Because she felt safer with us. This is a very common story in India, you can hear it at every corner of the street. Domestic violence, where outsiders are mere witnesses and can't do anything because it's none of our business. It's a matter between husband and wife, they have to resolve it among themselves. Really? can anything be resolved when one party is being physically abused?? In her novel "Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir very rightly portrays our society by saying "Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male" Is it not weakening us as a society?? Should we not raise a voice against it?? Breakthrough.TV has launched a campaign Bell Bajao which means Ring the bell. It’s time to remove those earplugs. The campaign asks you to take a stand. Kill the “it’s not my business” mentality.
This video shows a changed attitude's simple act that can help put the message across that we are listening and the abuse has to stop. Now. Please share and help spread the campaign. It is your business.