14 March 2015 at 22:46 ·
Once the heat and dust over the rape documentary dies, and the loudest debators retreat before taking on the next debate, maybe it is time to look at the issue quietly.
There is a something more ordinary called morals. There is also another word called self control, which needs to be able to combat both desire for power and lust. Maybe these simple things need to looked into. These are old fashioned, yet eternal issues.
Also ordinary things need to be addressed - such as scantily dressed women in every hoarding, and indecent dances in every movie.
'Freedom' comes with certian social responsibilities.
I watched India's Daughter yesterday. It unnerved me.
Here are a few pointers:
a) The Jail psychiatrist mentioned that there are men in Tihar accused of 200 rapes but tried only for say 12. The men who shared details remembers 200, there may have been more. Remembers is the KEY word here.
b) When Jyoti's parents sold off their land to educate their daughter, their extended relatives biggest concern was 'why for a daughter'?
c) One of the accused whose wife lives in Bihar with a 2 year old ish toddler, informed with hopelessness that if her husband is hanged will that stop rapes? She believes that she needs to kill the child and herself because who will look after them?
d) Mukesh Singh who gave the interview mentioned he had only one sexual escapade prior to this. He was attending a wedding in a village and the lady who agreed to make out with him informed that kissing is sacrilege. Kissing seems to be something rather dirty an act.He also mentioned his brother used to give him electric shocks as a kid. As if that's normal sibling behaviour
e) The Juvenile seems to have left home at 11. His father is mentally imbalanced. The mother said nonchalantly that they mostly only eat one meal a day. The camera panned on some salt and sugar..possibly the only luxury items. The two sisters work as labourers and bring some money it seems. On and off.
f) There was a def lawyer who claimed that if his sister/daughter explores pre marital equations he will take her to their farmhouse and light her up. A lawyer is educated, right? Or is just literate?
The whole society is a mess.
When 10-11 year old kids do not have food to eat, is beaten up, there is no education and future, where one sibling can administer elec shocks to another nonchalantly, where warped ideas of sex floats (lack of sex education), where there is a humongous migrant population who seems dazzled with the city life and live on the periphery with past criminal records, where a wife thinks he only option is now to kill herself because there is no job, prospect of survival, when accused do not show any remorse because they believe rape was to teach the victim a lesson, we should sit back and ask A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
This reflects a society decaying at every level.
More importantly why did an Indian docu maker not do this?
Not just as a daughter, I am shocked and saddened as a citizen. One who pays taxes. When did it all go so wrong at so many levels? Given that we are sitting on a ticking bomb, how do we start rebuilding a society where such horrors are not repeated?
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