The Great Men of India

To The Great Men Of India

Today I could not help writing this article to defend Indian society and Indian men in particular who are being victimised on the pretext of an interview of a rape convict. Yes, I am speaking about the recent BBC documentary which features an interview with one of the Nirbhaya rape convict, who is serving his sentence in Tihar jail in India. The BBC documentary made by a western journalist with a western perspective unfortunately blames mind-set of all Indian men for what happened to Nirbhaya. The documentary draws such conclusions because the Nirbhaya rape case convict does not show any remorse towards his actions and instead gives justifications for doing what he did on that day. I totally disagree with the portrait of Indian men being painted in this documentary and therefore I find the urgency to speak up about this matter in defence of Indian society and in particular for Indian men.

BBC documentary published an interview of a person, whom I am not even considering naming in this article, as he deserves no attention what so ever just like the killer from Norway who slaughtered innocent men and women because of his twisted mind set and Ideology or the two men, one in Austria and one in USA, who locked up daughters/women in cellar for years or the nurse who refused abortion of an Indian women in Ireland because of religious reasons, which consequently led to her death. There are many more cases ranging from rape to racism to absolute fanaticism, which keep happening around the globe. It is unfortunate that parallels are drawn by BBC about Indian society based on the interview of this person; imagine what could happen if you start drawing parallels about Norwegian, Austrian, American, Irish society or any other society and its people based on the criminals who are locked up in their jails. It saddens me to see that such a reputed new channel BBC doing something similar.  I feel that by airing such a documentary and drawing conclusions based on the mind-set of a perverted mind by BBC is not only promoting irresponsible journalism but also insulting all the hard working men of India, who treat their wives, sisters and daughters with same dignity as men do in western societies, and who have worked hard over decades to bring this county to where it stand today.

It is unfortunate that in recent times BBC has been completely insensitive towards Indian sentiments and values and has been portraying India as a country which has nothing good to offer. I possibly can not comment on their reason for being so insensitive towards Indian society and India.  However, In order to counter the views being propagated by BBC about Indian men I would like to draw your attentions some of the basic facts about men of India. A number of my friends, majority of them are Indian men, are respectable people in society, doctors, engineers, farmers, lawyer and university professors and so have been their fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters. I know them and their families for a very long period of time and I can say with ease that all of my Indian male friends have worked hard to reach where they are today and I know from personal communication with them they do not agree with the views of the person highlighted by BBC documentary. I also know that they as parents also will disagree with the views propagated about how Indian men think about their daughter’s freedom and educations. Not only do I know about these friends of mine but in some cases I also know their parents who have worked hard to put their children (my friends and their sisters) to school and have provided them all the necessary freedom which Indian society can offer to its boys and girls while growing up in India. If some western journalist likes to think otherwise I would like to invite them to my home town and would like them to witness this friendly mingling of boys and girls at all levels from school to university in our little society. Like I know my friends and family and their view about raising girls in India I am sure so do you and I would like you to speak up today against such harsh judgment about Indian society and men by western media.

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