16/02/2025
As a reader, human, and story-interest person, I desire to read every book that comes to my hands. In her book ‘Kama Sutra Diaries’ Sally Howard (A travel journal that I read past few months ago) asks a very interesting question about India; ancient India is the one country that gave the Kama Sutra to educate the art of sex and the lesson that recognizes as the physical education in modern day which has been syllabized in the schooling system. ‘It’s also a part of the world that is wedded, as no other, to the notion of the loveless, arranged marriage. It’s a land that houses women cloistered in purdah, but also matriarchal tribes who view men as an expedient for insemination and agricultural labor. It’s a land where families bow down to a graphic depiction of a conjoined phallus and vagina, the Shivaling, but where couples are routinely attacked by the police for the indiscretion of holding hands in public.'
'The young Indians are clogging up cisterns at call centers with spent condoms; they watch more porn than any country on earth; and they also are increasingly protesting against sexual violence in a backlash that continues to play out today.’
The rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata shook the whole nation and set off an outcry over women’s safety.
An Oscar-nominated documentary called “To Kill a Tiger” about a 13-year-old girl who was raped and faced officials' pressure and death threat to seek justice that I watched with a heavy heart and wet eyes.
“Siya” is another documental movie that I watched before writing this page and filling my diary with my thoughts and speculations about the movie. This movie is very impactful and reflects the social justice system of the country; Nepal includes to that category; Nirmala Pantha’s rape case is the best example.
‘Siya’, a soul-stirring take on the horror and pains of rape victims, is a film inspired by a real-life incident where a young girl from a rural village in North India, decides to fight for justice after being sexually assaulted. She dares to fight for justice and starts a movement against the flawed justice system which is turned into a puppet in the hands of the powerful.
While watching the movie I thought that the movie was speaking about the biggest dilemma that exists in our society when it comes to fighting legal battles where the victims are brutally pushed to the corner by the society. Lack of education would be one reason that leads to this happening, and money and power to corrupt the human minds and the officials.
It would take time to formalize the human mind and change society, but it is possible to make people aware through the stories and movies like “Siya” or the documentary like “To Kill a Tiger.”
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