The ban on 'India's Daughter' has fanned the documentary across social media with an
urgency that otherwise would have taken time or found lesser viewership. But
thanks to the government, that seems to have additional baggage of guarding
Indian culture along with a few bigots whose interpretation of our culture
would offer Taliban stiff competition. Closing ones eyes and listening to the
lawyers and the convict, one would mistake the documentary for one on Taliban
diktats for women.
There is no need for an international conspiracy to defame Indian
culture as the home minister worries. There are enough elements in our society
that are capable of doing it and have been doing it for centuries. And when did
teaching women a lesson, became the responsibility of men, for being out in the
night with a friend in the cities or while defecating in the open in villages?.
Obviously these are not stunning visuals of the ‘Incredible India’ campaign
that the government would want to be aired on BBC, but definitely an expose on
the mindset of rapists roaming our unsafe streets, practicing in our courts and
live in our neighbourhood with the noble intention to safeguard Indian Culture.
We are fortunately not bound by any ancient scriptures to live our
lives. The constitution is more than enough to govern us and there is place for
women in that; we don’t need an annual ‘Women's Day’ to remind us just that. Let the
Government first ban the lawyer from the precincts of any courts in India – if
banning is such a noble act as in the case of eating beef!.
