Dear Mr Godman ji
First things first. You are neither a God. Nor a man. And if you are..the latter..I mean then do you have a daughter, a sister, a woman in your life who you care for, worry for? Do you remember your mother’s face from the time when you were a young boy? What were the kind of images you saw growing up? Did you see violence against women and feel helpless? Or did you feel, it was justified that they were beaten or treated with inhumanity? And that unless they fell at the feet of their violators and begged for mercy, they did not deserve to be spared?
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So Saraswati Mantra is your weapon against rape? So if Anonymous had prayed to Mata Saraswati, she would not have made the mistake of boarding the wrong bus at the wrong time with the wrong man (a boy friend! Always a bad idea in this cultured nation of ours! And she watched a movie with him! Absolute recipe for disaster and against Indian values) and would have been spared?
What mantra do you think would have prevented the six men from raping a woman and beating the man who fought for her? Ah right, there is no such mantra anywhere. Men will be men you see and Godmen will be Godmen. Both incapable of knowing where to draw the line especially when it comes to women.
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So let us come to your rape prevention plan.  You really feel that Saraswati mantra can prevent women from being raped? Here is a little piece of information. Anonymous was Saraswati. She held education sacred and had fought great odds and poverty to educate herself. She was a medical student and would have healed and helped far more people than you can ever hope to. Do you also realise that goddesses both in scriptures and in our temples are a representation of various aspects of womanhood and femininity? And that Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati are not just to be worshipped as bloodless idols but as women who are your mothers, sisters, wives and yes, even strangers you meet on a bus, a train, in a street or anywhere else?
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From being a symbol of Shakti and the divine feminine, when did a woman become your handmaiden? A supplicant? A cowering victim who should grovel before her violators and ask for mercy? What was the word you used? Abla? You said, she should have said,”Main to ek abla hoon, tum mere bhai ho!” And then they would not have raped her and gored her intestines with an iron rod? The gist of what you are saying is this. That women do not need education. They need not have boyfriends. Or watch movies at night. And if despite all of this, they are cornered by six goons, they should beg and plead for mercy?
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So right, they will be spared when they do all this. But what will the men do? Will they stop raping other women, little girls, baby girls? Will they stop looking at women as a bait, stop hunting for them in packs? What is it about women like Anonymous and millions of others like her who have ambition, education and spunk that infuriates certain men? And makes men like you shoot your mouths off? Is it fear? The fear that if they become too independent they will stop answering questions and start asking them? It is about power, isn’t it? Both rape and the endorsement and justification of rape? What you and political leaders who have made similar nauseating statements about Lakshman rekhas and maryada in the recent past, are saying is that unless women stop asking for or  claiming their share of autonomy, physical, intellectual and moral.. they will be pushed back into their skins and towards their predefined boundaries by rapists. So it is better you say, if women understood where they belonged. In the four walls of their homes, in the shadows of men who decide their fate and control their destiny.
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It is not hard to see just whose side those politicians and Godmen like you , are on. You will not commit a gender crime, hopefully, but you will indirectly and in not so many words endorse it. If you make a victim responsible “in some measure” for what happens to her, you are also violating her if not literally then spiritually. And you call yourself a spiritual leader? Instead of giving moral science lectures to women, please go back in time and sit at the feet of the woman who brought you into this world and look in her eyes. What do you see there? Do you see a goddess, a mother who birthed you to celebrate other women like her? Or do you see a victim who must learn to know the place designated for her? Or have your forgotten that a woman brought you into this world?
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Here is a little something that you and people like you need to understand. There is NOTHING you can teach a woman that will prevent rape. The learning must happen somewhere else. In your warped, moth infested innards. And in the minds of others who go one step further and attack women to teach them a lesson in fear and helplessness. It is not a woman’s job to prevent rape. It is a man’s job to refrain from rape. Also..no matter what..you cannot push back the evolutionary wheel and tell women to stop growing, evolving, becoming more and more empowered.  Some of you have to learn to keep up.
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What did you say again about the tragedy that took Anonymous away from us? “Taali ek haath se nahin bajti?” Sure, you can’t clap with one hand but you know, what needs no more than one hand? A tight, resounding slap.