Some things I don't want to hear or see. The 'India's daughter' BBC documentary is based on the interview of one of the accused in the 2012 gruesome Delhi gang rape case which shook the entire nation and I think for the first time that the whole of India is united and came down to streets to protest for a social cause. Thanks to the development of Social Media sites like FB, Twitter etc.
On 3rd of March 2015, My mobile screamed at around 11 30 PM. It was a flash news from TOI about a documentary taken by BBC. I opened TOI app to see the full article. I was astonished after reading it and a sense of disturbance clouded over me. I was sure at that time that this would create a huge uproar among the people of India and also in the Parliament and that Indian Government would ban this documentary.
At first, I got so much irritated and angered about that guy for speaking such ugly things without showing any slightest remorse. Then, I thought the problem doesn't lie only with him. It also lies with us. It needs a serious introspection of ourselves. What made him to speak like as if he was the ruler and all the women were his subjects? What made him to think about women in the way that he spoke? Who gave him permission to decide the do's and don't' for anyone, let alone for the women?
Think about the mentality of an MP who told that the Hindu Women should give birth to at least 4 babies. If your leader speaks like an uncultured and intolerant person, who will blame you when you also speak on the same lines? Think about the mentality of the head of a leading organisation under whose support the present government is functioning and who told that rapes are happening in India but not in ' Bharat'. I still don't understand the difference between the two. I am not sure whether any virtual country called 'Bharat' is present in a different dimension parallel to us. If your leaders are mouthing words without any conscience or prudence, then that reflects the mentality of our society.
When I read the news sometime back that girls are not allowed to wear jeans in some villages and the sarpanches of those villages were creating this as a decree, I was wondering whether wearing jeans is a crime in Indian Penal Code. And no one is objecting for those decrees by some illiterate idiots. These cronies and the leaders would point history for the present debacle. As I wrote in my earlier blog, our history respected women and at times ill treated also. The exploitation was because of the following of blind faiths. SATI is one good example. We should not follow anything just because the same thing was there for thousands of years and we should question the things when we are not satisfied even they are in our holy scriptures. Still the taboo of Female Menstruation is prevailing in many parts of the country. These blind beliefs will get us nowhere.
When the government banned the airing of this documentary, what is it trying to tell? Is it banned because it will influence the social process? Yeah, may be it will influence. In that case, why the government allowed for the interview in the first place? Or is it banned because it will create social unrest and Law and Order problem? I am not sure about this argument. Whatever the reason, the interview shows the mentality of most men in India towards the women. It is the naked truth. Whether we accept it or not, the fact is just that.
The most important thing is we are trying to hide our misgivings. It is as dangerous as doing it. when a society doesn't want to accept the truth however bitter it is, there is no scope for it to grow. It is as if closing our eyes with a hand and telling that we have blocked the entire Sun with our hands. The Sun is there ever shining and those who want to get your mist of ignorance removed from you can go out and face the heat.
I want to quote a few of the great Poet's lines.
ஆணும் பெண்ணும் நிகரெனக் கொள்வதால்
அறிவி லோங்கி,இவ் வையம் தழைக்குமாம்
மூத்த பொய்மைகள் யாவும் அழிப்பராம்;
மூடக் கட்டுக்கள் யாவுந் தகர்ப்பராம்;
காத்து மானிடர் செய்கை யனைத்தையும்
கடவு ளர்க்கினி தாகச் சமைப்பராம்;
ஏத்தி ஆண்மக்கள் போற்றிட வாழ்வராம்;
இளைய நங்கையின் எண்ணங்கள் கேட்டிரோ;
On 3rd of March 2015, My mobile screamed at around 11 30 PM. It was a flash news from TOI about a documentary taken by BBC. I opened TOI app to see the full article. I was astonished after reading it and a sense of disturbance clouded over me. I was sure at that time that this would create a huge uproar among the people of India and also in the Parliament and that Indian Government would ban this documentary.
At first, I got so much irritated and angered about that guy for speaking such ugly things without showing any slightest remorse. Then, I thought the problem doesn't lie only with him. It also lies with us. It needs a serious introspection of ourselves. What made him to speak like as if he was the ruler and all the women were his subjects? What made him to think about women in the way that he spoke? Who gave him permission to decide the do's and don't' for anyone, let alone for the women?
Think about the mentality of an MP who told that the Hindu Women should give birth to at least 4 babies. If your leader speaks like an uncultured and intolerant person, who will blame you when you also speak on the same lines? Think about the mentality of the head of a leading organisation under whose support the present government is functioning and who told that rapes are happening in India but not in ' Bharat'. I still don't understand the difference between the two. I am not sure whether any virtual country called 'Bharat' is present in a different dimension parallel to us. If your leaders are mouthing words without any conscience or prudence, then that reflects the mentality of our society.
When I read the news sometime back that girls are not allowed to wear jeans in some villages and the sarpanches of those villages were creating this as a decree, I was wondering whether wearing jeans is a crime in Indian Penal Code. And no one is objecting for those decrees by some illiterate idiots. These cronies and the leaders would point history for the present debacle. As I wrote in my earlier blog, our history respected women and at times ill treated also. The exploitation was because of the following of blind faiths. SATI is one good example. We should not follow anything just because the same thing was there for thousands of years and we should question the things when we are not satisfied even they are in our holy scriptures. Still the taboo of Female Menstruation is prevailing in many parts of the country. These blind beliefs will get us nowhere.
When the government banned the airing of this documentary, what is it trying to tell? Is it banned because it will influence the social process? Yeah, may be it will influence. In that case, why the government allowed for the interview in the first place? Or is it banned because it will create social unrest and Law and Order problem? I am not sure about this argument. Whatever the reason, the interview shows the mentality of most men in India towards the women. It is the naked truth. Whether we accept it or not, the fact is just that.
The most important thing is we are trying to hide our misgivings. It is as dangerous as doing it. when a society doesn't want to accept the truth however bitter it is, there is no scope for it to grow. It is as if closing our eyes with a hand and telling that we have blocked the entire Sun with our hands. The Sun is there ever shining and those who want to get your mist of ignorance removed from you can go out and face the heat.
I want to quote a few of the great Poet's lines.
ஆணும் பெண்ணும் நிகரெனக் கொள்வதால்
அறிவி லோங்கி,இவ் வையம் தழைக்குமாம்
சாத்தி ரங்கள் பலபல கற்பராம்;
சவுரி யங்கள் பலபல செய்வராம்;மூத்த பொய்மைகள் யாவும் அழிப்பராம்;
மூடக் கட்டுக்கள் யாவுந் தகர்ப்பராம்;
காத்து மானிடர் செய்கை யனைத்தையும்
கடவு ளர்க்கினி தாகச் சமைப்பராம்;
ஏத்தி ஆண்மக்கள் போற்றிட வாழ்வராம்;
இளைய நங்கையின் எண்ணங்கள் கேட்டிரோ;
Will the great Poet's Dream ever come true?
