There is a huge
controversy over the film or documentary called “India’s daughter” and the
interview by one of the BBC reporter Leslee Udwin with Mukesh Singh who is one
of the convicted victim who was the bus driver. This sensitive 2012 incident
took place in Delhi while the Indian medical student who was violently gang raped on a
moving bus in Delhi and died of horrific internal injuries because they raped
her, thrown her out of the bus along with her boyfriend. They assaulted her
viciously with an iron instrument. The incident occurred while along with her boyfriend
after seeing the movie the Life of Pi at 8.30 pm when boarded an off duty bus to
reach home.
Here the question comes
to the listeners and readers. What are the values of an Indian women? There are 615 million of them
in our country who hold allegiance to the democracy of India. What is the value of an
untouchable women in India (Every hour two untouchables are assaulted)? If a
girl is outside the house at 8.30 pm that means she don’t have any value of
human right? What is the place of women
in the Indian culture and Indian religions? India is the birth place of many religions. How do an enlightened religious group respond
to this kind of social evils? We call Buddhism as a religion of enlightenment. How
do we exercise gender equality in the article 14 of Indian constitution? Until
we address these tumors and cancers in the social system, there is no point in
covering it with a Band-Aid. Human trafficking, child marriage, female infanticide, rape, gender discrimination, caste system, inequality on the basis of class
are the outcome of the internal tumors visible in the Hindustan (A national
patriotic name for India). Let Hindustan be a Hindustan not a Repistan.
Hillary Clinton once said:
women’s right are human right and human rights are women’s right. India can’t
succeed when half of is populations are held back from their human right. There
is no religious right when you violate the human right. The physical,
psychological and emotional strength of each gender is different that does not
mean their human rights are unequal. Let’s finish this unfinished task of the
21st century and post-modern age to bring equality and justice for
women and girls. Let’s make our women
beautiful, intelligent, creative, loving, brave and worthy of their own
admiration and affection.
1. BBC Interview
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