The Incredible Ban!

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!.