A Few Words on Indias Daughter

Indias Daughter is one of the longer documentaries produced by the BBC that takes
up a social cause and hits the right cord. The gruesome act of that night was reconstructed in the film. It is very meticulously researched and portrayed aptly in a
third person. Nevertheless, I did find it to be a bit repetitive. But the director having
herself experienced sexual violence in her life puts it up very well and full marks for
doing it so gracefully.
Above all, would have even skipped it had it not been banned. I frankly cannot
imagine what the fuss is all about and why the politicians have been jumping like jack
rabbits to get it banned. After all, the whole event was played out in the media hence
what is wrong in anyone collating the news? I am actually flummoxed by the
decision.
The case being first we have to look within and sort out the problems before taking a
decision to ban it. The decision to ban only gives further leeway to BBC to popularize
their content with a minimum of fuss. Its not surprising they preponed the release
from 8th, to coincide on International Womens Day, to release it on 4th itself. After
all, any kind of publicity is good and helps sell the product.
Everything that was shown is a known fact but we have been living under a denial
hence it could actually come as a shock for some. India has always been a patriarchal
society with a veil of equality that exists only in name. Its in this context that the
gruesome gang-rape really shamed the nation. The manner in which she was
humiliated and ravaged is totally unbecoming of human beings. Adding salt to the
wound the rapist is unrepentant and blames the rape entirely on the girl. Its not only
derogatory but there is tendency to objectify the opposite sex.
I cannot believe what I witnessed in the video. The defense lawyers and the rapist
were continuously ranting something that I could not sink in at all. The words still
echo in my mind and I could not digest them at all. The examples of comparing
flowers with a female and bringing the God aspect was unfortunate. It seemed the
lawyers were bereft of ideas. I am still shaking my head after listening to the absolute
nonsense. The lawyers argument of burning his daughter alive if caught in extramarital affair was outrageous. I somehow am unable to digest how possibly someone

can come up with this argument at all. All of which is added to not going out of home
after 6PM. Its unfortunate to bear this from qualified people.
The rapists interview was bone-chilling. I cannot imagine how he could be so utterly
unrepentful after what he has been party to. To blame it on the opposite sex is
foolhardy. I consider the arguments to be preposterous and cannot imagine how
someone cannot comprehend what he has just said. Its as if he does not acknowledge
what a heinous crime he has actually committed. Its absolutely shocking and made
me wonder was he morally alive?
The fact that all of them slept that night comfortably post committing the gruesome
crime worries me the most. Its as if no remorse at all. The question that came to my
mind is what good will hanging do when the killer is unrepentant. Another question
that came to my mind is why psychiatry is still a taboo after bearing witness to the
gruesome crime in the Indian capital. The killer is completely unconscious and does
not even acknowledge what he has just done. I believe first through therapy he has to
be brought alive and then hung.
I cannot understand how the men could have been dastardly to have put a rod in the
females vagina. How gruesome can someone become? And why the hell does he not
repent it? Does not the rapist know that under the influence of alcohol the girl was
raped in turns by five-six men? How gruesome can someone be?
The worst possible thing to have happened is the delay in justice. It been close to 2
and half years and the case is still lingering on for some innocuous reason. And to
think that its the same case that forced politicians to enact a law. Then how could it
have been prolonged for so long? To buttress the point it has not even been heard in
the court for close to a year.
The key questions keep on roaming around in my mind and frankly have no answers
for them. The question is why do we consider the women to be idolized, prayed and
worshipped but not to be treated properly at all? Why cannot we stop treating women
as objects to be owned, tormented and considered as mens property? Why cannot we
treat them as human beings and at least start considering them as individuals to start
with?

The attitude of Indian society that the film amplifies is indeed worrying. Even more
so, its in direct conflict with morality that is considered as the gift to the world from
our nation. The fact that women folk are objectified on a daily basis only shames us
even more and one tends to ponder what have we become?