Its Mahabharat all over again! Panchali dragged into a court full of hungry eyes, humiliation hurled from all sides and the world watching…. hanging their heads in shame and their fists clenched in anger. Alas, these days, Krishna doesn’t appear magically.
And it has been so since time immemorial, whether God created the world or it started with a Big Bang. What makes me think really hard is how did Indian men get this trait so much in abundance over their counterparts anywhere else around the world? But then I realize…..they did not get this trait, it has grown over time.
Each one of these anti-social elements probably started with a crime of much smaller quantum, and got away with it! Got away with it because no one, neither the victim nor the muted world, reacted! And when this happens, the line between right and wrong starts diffusing into a broader zone and finally into the disappearance of any such distinction.
Dhritarashtra, symbolic of a blind and dumb society, could have stopped it right there. But he chose not to, and we all know what happened thereafter. We can choose to be quiet, but then also be prepared to face these unspeakable acts. Alternatively we can choose to start reacting when we see the smaller mistakes in front of our eyes.
It should be stopped at the stage of eve-teasing/ stalking because these bloom into molestation and rapes!
And for God’s sake please stop making movies where some guy wins the love of a supermodel just because of his persistent stalking and forceful kissing. No, that doesn’t happen. Period.