WHETHER IT CAN BE SCREENED OR NOT, DU'S CLEAR THAT
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT TALK ABOUT `THE' DOCUMENTARY
The ‘headline’ which forced me to
write after a long time. The first thing that comes to my mind after reading this,
is why is international media/writers/film makers etc so intent at showing India’s underbelly. Examples
to quote movies like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ or ‘Nirbhaya Rape’ etc. Doesn’t rape
happen in any other country or a slum exist is any other part of the world. Not
that I am siding with Nirbhaya’s rapists or I am against this documentary. But as
a women I feel I am unsafe all over the world. There was a story in the
newspaper few days back about a women got was killed in Sydney, Australia even
though she was trying to cooperate with the robbers.
Women are unsafe all over the world
beyond a certain point of time, at certain places. When I was going through my preparation
for going to America for a training in GE I was told that we should not venture into
subways over there when it gets dark. There are more women beaten black and
blue in West than in India. Then why German university only bans Indian male
students, who most of the times are shit scared to propose a girl forget about
hoisting themselves on top of them unless under some intoxication. By the way,
even in case of Nirbhaya the men were under intoxication. And she boarded a
secluded bus with her boyfriend because they wanted to indulge in some action. This
never came out in the open because the media wanted to portray and get brownie
points on women liberation in India.
If you make a documentary like
this I think it is your moral responsibility to cover the pluses and minuses of
both the parties. People are debating on the ‘ideal daughter’ without even
knowing the complete facts. Firstly I don’t believe in the concept ‘idealism’. Secondly
there is no substitute for common sense and presence of mind.
Few thing I despised in that
documentary was the comments of the defense lawyers in favor of the rapists and
those men physically assaulting Nirbhaya/Jyoti to claim superiority over her,
because she refused to get physical with them as well apart from her boyfriend.
Of course (at the cost of sounding feminist) when have Indian men been good at
taking ‘no’ for an answer.
However, 3 out of 4 accused of
crimes against women go free - acquittal rate in the capital for crimes against
women continues to be as high as 70% even as the number of cases steadily rises.
I agree the government hasn’t taken stern actions against people who commit
such heinous crimes and justice delayed is justice denied. Somebody will have
to pay for these somewhere.
But is India the only country where all this happens.
Where Obama gets to criticize the country he has been invited to as the honorary
guest for not practicing ‘sovereignty’. Where we being a Hindu majority nation
cant gift ‘Geeta’ to our guests just because we believe in respecting all
religions.
There is Nirbhaya who got amorous
with her boyfriend in the secluded bus and was raped and assaulted by intoxicated
men to prove there superiority, blown out of proportion on world stage. 70% of
these predators go Scott free because of our slow judicial system. The price
off all which Indians are paying all over the world. When there is no country in the world which
is safe for women or crime free in this age. Shouldn’t we also adopt the policy
of ‘communism’ and control what goes out, so people don’t consider our
generosity our weakness.
I rest my case for you to debate.
