Much has been written about the banned documentary
made on Nirbhaya gangrape case. All political angles have been debated at
Indian parliament; several opinions of people came out including of some rape
victims. Some blame that Leslee Udwin’s “India’s
Daughter” aim to sensationalize the issue and defame the country, which is
certainly not the case. Some thinks, it gives an impression to the West that
Indian thinking is cheap and Indian men are poorly educated. Some protested
that it gives publicity to the rapist, but eventually exposes the ugly truth. Though
it is banned by the Indian government on
political rationale but still it’s already watched by lakhs of Indians on the internet after BBC broadcasted it on 5 March
2015. Documentary has one good point and one bad point to sum up-
* It exposed the mindset of ‘pervert’ section of our society through chauvinistic lawyers.
* It provides no solutions to the issue but dramatized the sufferings and aggravates the pain.
Udwin talked about ‘mindset’ of rapists and many like-minded Indian men so let’s analyze how a mentality nurtures in a society. But before that, I have a point pertaining to the course of law in our country. The judge who stayed the orders of hanging the rapists and gave only 3 years imprisonment to the juvenile rapist must watch this documentary. The Supreme Court verdict is still awaited and the juvenile rapist will roam scot-free after 3 years of imprisonment. That brutal rapist was 17 years at the time of gang rape and now he is an adult. What kind of transformation he got after living in juvenile rehabilitation cell, not a bit of remorse as clearly revealed by his accomplice in the documentary. In India, where girls are married at the age of 14 or 16 how come a boy in his adolescence after committing such a heinous crime is being punished so leniently not even lifetime imprisonment forget about capital punishment. Under the Juvenile Justice act 2000, any illegal offense by a juvenile will have only 3 years of maximum punishment, not specifying rape. According to NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) data, the involvement of juveniles in the murder has increased by over 86% in 2002-2012 while incidents of rape by juveniles had increased by 142% in the same period. In all, juveniles are responsible for only about 1.2% of the total crime committed in the country in 2012. The number of rapes committed by juveniles showed a 60% increase in 2013, compared to 2012. (TOI Report)
What kind of impression this boy does carry into the society? He has in his mind, ‘I’ll be freed after few years’. He’ll encourage the boys like him in his community and fear of law will again reduce. He comes from the locality and culture where those uneducated poorly-groomed chaps think, people are making an issue out of it why they don’t do when these urban girls roam around with skimpy dresses with their boyfriends and make out at the public places. These slum kids, teenagers in typically rural areas, where people below poverty line and above it, resides in narrow lanes. They perform all those lame jobs like serving at a tea stall, litter pickers, household maids, (Milkmen), bus-conductors, car-washers, beggars, vegetable vendors, downtrodden who lives on the footpath, etc. They are very vulnerable to the public places; they monitor each and everything happens at the public places like malls, parks, open-restaurants, old monuments etc. Their mentality revolves around considering women as an object; they even get their sexual pleasures within their community forcefully. Kids of their community are mainly into child labor and even in child sex or taken away by porn industries. So in those circumstances these kids grow as a chauvinist and if they get the quick money they want to quench their sexual thirst with urban girls.
* It exposed the mindset of ‘pervert’ section of our society through chauvinistic lawyers.
* It provides no solutions to the issue but dramatized the sufferings and aggravates the pain.
Udwin talked about ‘mindset’ of rapists and many like-minded Indian men so let’s analyze how a mentality nurtures in a society. But before that, I have a point pertaining to the course of law in our country. The judge who stayed the orders of hanging the rapists and gave only 3 years imprisonment to the juvenile rapist must watch this documentary. The Supreme Court verdict is still awaited and the juvenile rapist will roam scot-free after 3 years of imprisonment. That brutal rapist was 17 years at the time of gang rape and now he is an adult. What kind of transformation he got after living in juvenile rehabilitation cell, not a bit of remorse as clearly revealed by his accomplice in the documentary. In India, where girls are married at the age of 14 or 16 how come a boy in his adolescence after committing such a heinous crime is being punished so leniently not even lifetime imprisonment forget about capital punishment. Under the Juvenile Justice act 2000, any illegal offense by a juvenile will have only 3 years of maximum punishment, not specifying rape. According to NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) data, the involvement of juveniles in the murder has increased by over 86% in 2002-2012 while incidents of rape by juveniles had increased by 142% in the same period. In all, juveniles are responsible for only about 1.2% of the total crime committed in the country in 2012. The number of rapes committed by juveniles showed a 60% increase in 2013, compared to 2012. (TOI Report)
What kind of impression this boy does carry into the society? He has in his mind, ‘I’ll be freed after few years’. He’ll encourage the boys like him in his community and fear of law will again reduce. He comes from the locality and culture where those uneducated poorly-groomed chaps think, people are making an issue out of it why they don’t do when these urban girls roam around with skimpy dresses with their boyfriends and make out at the public places. These slum kids, teenagers in typically rural areas, where people below poverty line and above it, resides in narrow lanes. They perform all those lame jobs like serving at a tea stall, litter pickers, household maids, (Milkmen), bus-conductors, car-washers, beggars, vegetable vendors, downtrodden who lives on the footpath, etc. They are very vulnerable to the public places; they monitor each and everything happens at the public places like malls, parks, open-restaurants, old monuments etc. Their mentality revolves around considering women as an object; they even get their sexual pleasures within their community forcefully. Kids of their community are mainly into child labor and even in child sex or taken away by porn industries. So in those circumstances these kids grow as a chauvinist and if they get the quick money they want to quench their sexual thirst with urban girls.
Honestly,’ lovers park’ culture in many parts of
India not only boost porn industries but also provoke these men belonging to
that community where the mindset of a
sexist or patriarchy exists. Its high time now, we need to talk about young
couples making out at public places.it became a small-time business for the workers
of park or tourist spots as they allow all these activities. Middle-class
youngsters watch porn on the internet but
these poor youth watch porn live in the daylight till evening. It not at all means
that these things incite rape but nurture a dangerous mindset. Under section
294 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) any
obscene act at public places is a punishable offense
but still making out in cars is common.
We make a society, we create a mindset
of people but if we don’t correct ourselves this mindset will never remove
instead it will carry forward in our middle-class community and also to the high-class community where big sex rackets take place and sex workers are paid heavily.
Some politicos already have this mindset what sick lawyers in the documentary
emphasized that ‘woman have no place in our culture’. Actually, it implies that
women are ‘used as a substance’ which is common in riches due to ‘call girls’
culture. The irony is that those who
think that girls should not go out wearing short dresses, night culture is
ruining youth are the first one to bring item girls or bar dancers in the
parties. Some right-wing politicians have
made such derogatory remarks in the context of religion that rape dead Muslim
women or give birth to four kids to save religion etc. but still these people
are never punished. These kinds of people will find the justification made by
the rapist as logical, so you can’t deny the negative effects of the documentary
too. “Poor rape due to their uncivilized
upbringing but Rich rapes due to patriarchy and male chauvinism”.
This documentary will not change the mentality but
only gives courage to the women and victims to speak out. The ban on the
documentary by the Indian government is
based on the fact that if this will be shown on Indian Television, though, it may make things worse and trigger the furor
more than what was witnessed on Delhi streets after 16 December 2012. In fact, it is true to some extent, Indians
are very sensitive and this will blow their sensitivity. If it was shown on TV
many females in Indian households could have got violent and the controlled
rage which you can see now could have been turned into a volcano of anger. Every kind of person with
different mindsets will take that differently and those who translate their
reactions into actions, the result may be a lynching
of rapists like that happened in
Nagaland. According to HT survey Among the 552 unique responses received in
about 20 hours, 393 wanted the documentary to be aired while 159 were against
it.
It depends on which section of the society you are showing to and what kind of message it caters. But one thing it certainly can do, bring revolution.
It depends on which section of the society you are showing to and what kind of message it caters. But one thing it certainly can do, bring revolution.
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